Weekend Viewing: 4 Australian films new to VOD

If your New Year’s resolution was to watch more Australian films, then we’ve got you covered. Here are four Australian films new to VOD for you to watch this weekend. Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Bloody Hell Available: iTunes, Google Play and Xbox Read our review…

CinefestOZ launches brand new festival for Albany

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. With more film festivals than any other state celebrating local films, this news is further evidence that Western Australia truly is the home of Australian cinema. Our friends at CinefestOZ have announced that they’re heading further South with a brand new…

Interview: Stephen Johnson

Cinema Australia Original Content: High Ground director Stephen Johnson hopes that his new film will encourage audiences to rethink the Australian story. Cinema Australia caught up with Johnson to discuss his harrowing and confronting revenge western. Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. “It was more about trying to…

Revelation Film Festival opens international call for entries

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Revelation Perth International Film Festival is calling for entries for its 2021 edition and is looking for films of all forms, all durations, all subjects and all nationalities. This call for entries underpins the annual program slate and provides a unique…

Download the Cinema Australia 2020 Watchlist

How many Australian films did you watch this year? If the answer isn’t many, you can hardly blame yourself. Almost every Australian film scheduled for a 2020 release was disrupted by the pandemic. Film festivals around Australia did a great job to continue showcasing new Australian films either online, or physically, albeit with restricted audience…

Shooting The Dustwalker’s alien dust storm in outback WA

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by Sandra Sciberras (Director, The Dustwalker) The Dustwalker is my second film working with visual effects in a way that I hadn’t before and in ways that I would do again, and again if I have the…

New Trailer! Hugo Weaving, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Curry are under surveillance in Lone Wolf

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Following a postponed August 2020 release, Jonathan Ogilvie’s new Australian thriller Lone Wolf will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. A brand new Lone Wolf trailer has also been released via the IFFR YouTube channel. Set in contemporary…

Friends and Strangers world premiere set for IFFR

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. James Vaughan’s feature film debut, Friends and Strangers, will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The new Australian film will screen as part of the Tiger Competition – IFFR’s trade mark competition that celebrates the innovative and adventurous…

New world premiere dates confirmed for This is Port Adelaide

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. As a staunch supporter of the mighty West Coast Eagles, I’d love to be reporting on a new Eagles documentary. But I’ll just rewatch the one we got last year following our heart pounding win over Collingwood in the 2018 Grand…

Perth audiences set for live Q&A with filmmaker Robert Connolly

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to see an early screening of The Dry, and it’s already one of our favourite films of next year. Perth audiences will be treated to a special Q&A screening of The Dry on January 3, that will…