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Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The Naked Wanderer will make its world premiere at a star-studded red-carpet event at this year’s CinefestOZ. In a major coup for the festival, the WA-made film about a man who treks the WA coastline – mostly…
Cinema Australia Original Content: “Life is not simple for me, so why would I make simple films?” Written by Matthew Eeles Independent filmmaker Saara Lamberg has dropped a new teaser trailer for Westermarck Effect, a followup to her Cinema Australia Audience Award-winning feature film, Innuendo. As the title suggests, Westermarck Effect is not your average Australian film.…
Hot Mess, the debut feature from Sydney writer and director Lucy Coleman, is gearing up for its festival run at Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July. A labour of love, the micro budget film tells the story of Loz, a 25 year-old aspiring playwright who thinks she’s finally found the answer to all her…
The Sydney Film Festival has announced the Audience Awards, the list of the audience’s top five voted features and documentaries. Winner for best narrative feature went to Sequin in a Blue Room directed by Samuel Van Grinsven and winner for best documentary went to Martha: A Picture Story directed by Selina Miles. Coming in at second…
A new Australian short film is aiming to hit the festival scene at home and overseas. Pseudomonas is an independent Australian horror short which narrates from the uninhabitable corners of trauma. Pseudomonas Inspired by true events, the realisation of this film has been made possible by a dedicated Sydney-based team including writer and director Rhys William Nicolson, producers…
The MIFF Premiere Fund delivers seven world and Australian premieres to the 68th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), including Paul Ireland’s gritty reimagining of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure staring Hugo Weaving and Maziar Lahooti’s highly anticipated directorial debut, Below. The Premiere Fund, which provides minority co-financing to new Australian quality theatrical (narrative and documentary) feature films that then premiere at MIFF, has invested in more than…
Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Acclaimed Sydney-based production company Blackfella Films has been awarded the 2019 Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award at the Closing Night of the 66th Sydney Film Festival. The award was presented to Darren Dale, Rachel Perkins and…
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival will play host to one of the most memorable figures of Woodstock ‘69 in the lead-up to the iconic festival’s fiftieth anniversary. Lighting designer and M.C. Chip Monck is perhaps best known for his role in one of the most successful documentaries of all time – Woodstock, where he made…
From 19th – 30th July 2019 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival will profile an eclectic, diverse and wide ranging collection of documentaries from both Australia and abroad. The final selection is an uncompromising, award-winning and challenging slate of documentaries from the world’s very best film festivals. Here’s your complete list of Australian films screening at this…
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