Playing with Sharks, the feature documentary from director Sally Aitken and producer Bettina Dalton, has been selected to screen at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section. The WildBear Entertainment production is one of only 10 films from around the world to be chosen for this prestigious and highly competitive…
The Capricorn Film Festival, one of Australia’s best and fasted growing film festivals, is set to return in January bigger and better than ever. Central Queensland’s premiere film and arts destination event will include premieres, events, art experiences and much more. Presented by Livingstone Shire Council, the Capricorn Film Festival will be held from Wednesday…
Western Australian production company, Prospero Productions has announced it has kicked off production on its third immersive documentary, Star Dreaming, in partnership with Yamaji Art and the joint winner of the Premier’s WA Scientist of the Year 2020, the internationally renowned astrophysicist, Professor Steven Tingay. This Full Dome feature comes hot on the heels of…
Do we need a film about Port Arthur mass killer Martin Bryant? The short answer is no, but here’s the press release from Stan anyway: Stan today announced a new Stan Original Film, NITRAM, which is currently in production in Geelong, Victoria and will premiere on Stan in 2021. From the award-winning team behind the…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Set during WWII, The Flood is the story of Jarah’s coming-of-age in a brutal and lawless land – growing from a sweet child to a strong, independent and ferocious woman taking on Australia’s corrupt and bigoted system one bad guy at…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia readers have been treated to the first look at the new trailer for The Xrossing. After the murder of a young girl in the Perth Hills, three boys harass a reclusive Aboriginal man known in the neighbourhood as “Black Bobby” (Kelton…
Stan has announced the Stan Original Film Gold will start filming in South Australia this month and will premiere on Stan in 2021. The Stan Original film Gold will star Zac Efron (The Greatest Showman, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) – making it his first project since arriving in Australia earlier this year. AACTA Award-winning actor…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Netflix has acquired Australia and New Zealand streaming rights to Western Australian Indigenous documentary, Our Law, which will premiere on the streaming platform from this Sunday. The impressive Netflix sale is a first for producers Taryne Laffar of PiNK PEPPER and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Impressive Western Australian emerging filmmaking trio Clare Toonen, Hannah Ngo and Radheya Jegatheva have won $70,000 production funding to produce their Pixar-inspired short film, Bird Drone, thanks to Elevate+, a new iteration of Screenwest’s annual Elevate program. Bird Drone is an…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. In Corpore will have its world premiere via Lido at Home this month. Internationally-flavoured anthological drama/LGBTQ feature film In Corpore tells the stories of four separate relationships, each varied in their labels, each unfolding in different parts of the world. In Melbourne the…
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