CinefestOZ and WIFT Australia announce new writing retreat

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Here’s a great initiative from CinefestOZ and Women in Film & TV Australia that we think a lot of Cinema Australia readers will get great benefit from. Here’s the press release: West Australian screen industry practitioners are about to be given…

MDFF Review: Cry of The Forests

Cinema Australia Original Content Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed, produced, edited and written by Jane HammondNarrated by Kelton Pell Review by Gavin Bond While there have been numerous environmentally themed documentaries to hit the big screen over the last decade or so (An Inconvenient Truth,…

Free CinefestOZ screenings across WA’s South West region

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia. Community spirit will be bolstered at this year’s CinefestOZ Film Festival as the festival announces an extensive array of free screenings taking place across the South West region.  Playing host to four films and the Cinesnaps Short Film finalists over two days ­in Bunbury, Busselton,…

Cinema Australia Podcast #64 | Josh Reed

Cinema Australia Original Content: Director Josh Reed joins the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss his tense, claustrophobic drama, We’re Not Here to Fuck Spiders. We’re Not Here To Fuck Spiders is a micro-budget crime film about a household of bottom-feeder meth-head criminals in the lead up to, and aftermath of, a lucrative home invasion. To…

Jett star! Dia Taylor discusses her new rock drama

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia. by Matthew Eeles Back in 2017, Cinema Australia covered the very solid, micro budget, indie drama, Marital Problems. We shared the trailer and interviewed the film’s talented screenwriter Julian Barbor, and producer Matthew Goldsworthy. But an interview…

Matt Nable will make his directorial debut with new thriller Transfusion

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia. Starring Phoebe Tonkin, and written and directed by Matt Nable, who also stars; production on the new Stan Original kicked off earlier this week in Sydney. Stan today announced that the Stan Original Film Transfusion commenced filming in Sydney earlier this week; and will premiere…