Australian Christmas movies are few and far between, so today’s announcement that Stan are currently in production on A Sunburnt Christmas is an exciting one. The last festive film released in Australia was Craig Anderson’s brutal horror, Red Christmas. And let’s face it, that film didn’t exactly spread any joy. For what it’s worth, Cinema…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. One of the Gold Coast’s key cultural events is recruiting for a new Festival Director, following the resignation of CEO/Festival Director Lucy Fisher. The Board of Gold Coast Film Fantastic Ltd which oversees the Gold Coast Film Festival and a year…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “I had a lot of support with the whole cast and the crew and everyone knowing it was my first feature, but also I just had a ball.” It’s hard to believe Bloody Hell is Meg Fraser’s…
Hot Mess is available to stream on Netflix from today. Directed by Lucy Coleman, Hot Mess is funny, charming, rambunctious, and blushingly candid. The independent Australian comedy follows 25-year-old Loz (Sarah Gaul), a wannabe writer who seems intent on sabotaging her own success. Tipped to receive a coveted writer-in-residence gig with a cutting- edge theatre group, the…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “With Torch Song I wanted to create a lament on the transitional state of masculinities – the liminal space between the old toxic masculinity and the rejection of the feminine within new masculinity.” Directed by Stephen Lance…
Capricorn Film Festival in partnership with Queensland Mental Health Week will present a free virtual mental health workshop for regional artists. This will be an important and timely conversation with mental health professionals Erin Fisher and Jane Endacott, Rockhampton based writer and performer Jodie van de Wetering, and Luke Graham, Capricorn Film Festivals founder and…
Five years in the making, the enlightening feature documentary Brazen Hussies, chronicling the Australian Women’s Liberation Movement, will be released in cinemas nationally on November 5. This follows the film’s world premiere at Brisbane International Film Festival on October 3 and screenings at Antenna Selects (Sydney), and Adelaide Film Festival. Brazen Hussies introduces contemporary audiences…
The 2020 Australia Independent Film Festival located in the heart of the Brisbane CBD spanned two sensational days across three incredible screening sessions at the iconic Elizabeth Picture Theatre. Operating under an approved Covid safe plan the festival sold out both International Shorts and Australian Short film sessions. During the festival Brisbane film lovers enjoyed…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Gold Coast-shot horror film Bloody Hell will hit Australian cinemas early next month. Described as Fargo meets Fight Club, Bloody Hell is a quirky fun horror with levity set between Boise in Idaho and Helsinki in Finland and follows Rex…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Welcome to the first ever Get to Know – a new feature where we put a series of simple questions to an up-and-coming screen industry talent. Recently released online, Riley Sugars’ latest short film Rabbits…
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