Following very successful festival runs both at home and overseas, both Hearts and Bones and H is For Happiness are now available to rent on demand. Ben Lawrence’s new Australian drama, Hearts and Bones, was forced to bypass an Australian cinema release for obvious reasons, while it’s hoped H is For Happiness reaches a larger…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Award-winning dating dramedy No Pink Cowboys has officially launched online. Co-created by actress and producer Fabiana Weiner, this bite-sized six-part series explores the chaos of modern dating and will be available to watch in full on the Robot Army YouTube Channel –…
by MATTHEW EELES The first two episodes of Earners will be released via YouTube tomorrow. Filmed in the outer-suburbs of Melbourne, the new comedy web series was directed by Nick Kozakis and Liam Kelly from an idea by Carl Allison. Independently produced, Earners stars Stephen Clements, Samantha Pearce and Stig Wemyss and has been described as Australia’s answer…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Fleur Ferris’s Nullaboo Hullabaloo will be adapted into a feature film. The adaptation of the 2019 best-selling children’s book will be developed by a tri-party collaboration between the USA, South Korea and Australia. The book option deal was struck between Jay Ahn from…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Hearts and Bones is heading direct to digital platforms from May 6. Ben Lawrence’s new Australian drama follows war photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) who has returned home to the news of his partner’s pregnancy. While preparing for his latest exhibition, a…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by MATTHEW EELES Production has commenced on new horror/thriller, Encircled. With strict social distancing measures in place, the team behind the new film will collaborate remotely and utilise an online process to commence VFX creation and conduct script readings, casting and…
The Gold Coast Film Festival has moved two of its flagship events – SIPFest (which you can watch below) and Screen Industry Gala Awards – online following the cancellation of the 12 day annual festival. SIPFEST, the free beachside short film festival presented by Surfers Paradise Alliance, will showcase it’s 13 short films online this…
Three online projects from the 2019 Digital Originals initiative will share in $65,000 of development funds from Screen Australia and SBS. A Beginner’s Guide to Grief, Freewheelers and Iggy & Ace 5eva were selected from the 10 projects workshopped last year and will now be developed further with the intention of at least one going…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by MATTHEW EELES “When will it be available? I really need to see that documentary.” “Have you found any Flash concept art?” “Bad ass!!!” Those were some of the comments left on Ryan Unicomb’s Instagram account after the Australian filmmaker dropped…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Press Release Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department has today announced production funding for four documentary projects, with the agency’s contribution to the budgets totaling $745,000. The projects include Alick and Albert about the unlikely friendship between art activist Alick Tipoti and Prince…
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