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…
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,…
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