Sweet As, the debut feature film from writer/director Jub Clerc, has received major production funding from Screen Australia, with filming to take place in Western Australia. Inspired by Clerc’s own experiences growing up in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, Sweet As is co-written by Steve Rodgers, with Arenamedia’s Liz Kearney (Paper Planes)…
Australian filmmaker Clare McCann has announced the launch of her new film festival, Sydney Women’s International Film Festival with the inaugural event set to launch on November 27 at United Cinemas Opera Quays. Festival director McCann conceived SWIFF to help address the gender imbalance in the film industry, and partnered with Marketing Director, Suzie Watt, to…
R&R Films has announced that new Australian comedy Never Too Late will hit Australian cinemas on October 29 on approximately 150 screens nationally. Filmed on location in Adelaide, Never Too Late was directed by Mark Lamprell (My Mother Frank, A Few Less Men), was written by screenwriter and crime novelist Luke Preston and produced by Antony I…
It has been a big week for WA films with the announcement that submissions have opened for WA Made Film Festival 2021, the release of the Mystic Pines trailer ahead of the film’s world premiere at BIFF, and now the first trailer has dropped for Perth/Sydney-shot feature film, I Met a Girl. Directed by Luke…
by MATTHEW EELES We’ve said it before and we will say it again: Davo Hardy is one of the busiest directors working in Australian film. A year after the release of his most recent film, The Blood of God, writer, director and producer Hardy has announced he is in pre-production on his fifth film, Public Eye,…
During an Industry Panel at CinefestOZ, Screenwest announced the State Government Supported Western Australian Screen Fund guidelines are now live on the Screenwest website and will include a rebate incentive of up to twenty percent for post-production, digital and visual effects (PDV) work completed for screen projects within Western Australia. The WA PDV Rebate is…
I Am Woman is Unjoo Moon’s narrative feature directorial debut. The film tells the inspiring story of singer Helen Reddy, who wrote and sang the song “I Am Woman” that became the anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s. We recently caught up with Moon to discuss I Am Woman, working with Reddy to…
Cinema Australia Original Content: by Matthew Eeles If you know anything about independent filmmaking, you’ll know it takes many years to get a feature film off the ground and in-front of an audience. Such is the case for Ildiko Susany who began developing her upcoming film, Marley, Someone, back in 2013 when the writer, producer,…
CinefestOZ has announced an exciting Industry Program led by local and national film industry leaders and innovators including Jodie Bell, Jub Clerc, Julia Redwood, Jamie Hilton, Steve Jaggi, Anne Robinson and These Final Hours director Zak Hilditch. American actor Kate Walsh will also take part in the program. The CinefestOZ Industry Program encourages attendees to…
The Adelaide Film Festival has today announced the first five films to feature in this year’s Festival program. AFF will host the South Australian Premiere of Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra, about Australia’s most renowned arts company; it’s the story of three brothers—Stephen, Russell, and David Page—and it’s the story of the way art can become a…
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