Features, shorts, masterclasses – VFest is go!

Capricorn Film Festival will present a virtual screen festival this August called VFest. VFest will celebrate Queensland and international stories by screening home-made feature films, international and Australian-made experimental short films, as well as a series of discussions and masterclasses hosted by Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles. “Cinema Australia is proud to partner with Capricorn Film Festival…

WA Made Film Festival’s smartphone filmmaking competition returns

DISCLAIMER: Cinema Australia founder and editor Matthew Eeles is also the festival director of the WA Made Film Festival. Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best is back!  The WA Made Film Festival has officially announced the return of its Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best smartphone filmmaking competition.  Get Smart! Presented by Buy West…

Eddie Arya’s Risen to invade Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Eddie Arya’s new Australian sci-fi, Risen, will have its world premiere at the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival. The festival describes the film as a contemplative, compelling narrative that melds the the thoughtful introspection and intellectualism of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and…

CinefestOZ and Bus Stop Films partner for disability workshop

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A valuable training workshop is set to go ahead at this year’s CinefestOZ film festival as the event team engage with Bus Stop Films to spearhead employment opportunities in the screen industry for people living with a disability. Developed by film…

Home & Away star Tammin Sursok returns home for You, Me and the Penguins

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The Steve Jaggi Company and Incendo have commenced production on the romantic comedy You, Me and the Penguins. This feature film stars Australian actor Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars, Rules of Engagement, Crossing Over), Jason Wilder (Kidnapped, Great White, We Were Tomorrow)…

An introduction to The Neon Across the Ocean

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Set sometime in the not-too-distant future, after the worldwide crisis of 2020, Mandy is a 17-year-old Filipino Australian. In her final year of high school and dealing with her parents impending divorce, she navigates a world driven by a new normal…

New Trailer: NITRAM

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Madman Entertainment has released the official trailer for NITRAM ahead of its world premiere at Cannes next week ahead of screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival and CinefestOZ. NITRAM depicts the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in…

Fresh Australian films for CinefestOZ

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Following this morning’s Film Prize finalists announcement, CinefestOZ has unveiled an early look at their upcoming festival program. Now in its 14th year, the event will once again take over the bustling South West hubs of Busselton, Augusta-Margaret River and Bunbury…

CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize finalists revealed

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. CinefestOZ has announced the four films that will compete for this year’s $100,000 Film Prize. The early lineup of films comes ahead of the festival’s full program reveal on July 29. Anthology film Here Out West, Martin Bryant drama Nitram, documentary…

Focus on MDFF: We Are Conjola

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. On New Year’s Ever in 2019, filmmaker Ash Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the…