Following a successful film festival run, director Travis Beard’s RocKabul will be released in cinemas on May 2. RocKabul is a documentary about Afghanistan’s first metal band, District Unknown, that existed on the fringes of Afghan society and beyond comprehension of conservative Islam. While living in Afghanistan for seven years, Australian filmmaker Travis Beard began recording…
Actors Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires), Gwilym Lee and director Wayne Blair will embark on a Q&A tour of their new film Top End Wedding at four cinemas in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin ahead of the film’s Gala Screening at the Gold Coast Film Festival. There is no news yet on a Queensland, Western Australia…
Screenwest, Screen Australia and ABC Indigenous have announce KGB, a comedy web series created by Western Australian indigenous filmmaker brothers, Luke and Dan Riches, has been greenlit by the ABC thanks to Screenwest’s Indigenous Online Initiative – Originate. Set in Perth’s notorious KGB (Koondoola, Girrawheen, Balga), the series follows two rookie detectives, tough guy Jack…
Celebrating its fifth year, submissions are now open for the Capricorn Film Festival – a highly celebrated film event held annually in Central Queensland. This year, the festival will be a four-day cinema event to be held in late November at the beautiful beachside tourist destination of Yeppoon. Submission categories include feature film, documentary and short…
Madman Entertainment has today released the official trailer for the hotly anticipated documentary 2040, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film). The hit 2015 documentary That Sugar Film saw Gameau transform himself into a ‘human lab rat’ to trial the effects that a high sugar diet has on the human body.…
The coming-of-age Australian feature film The Pretend One will embark on a screening and Q&A tour throughout March, April and May covering the major capital cities, as well as some special regional centres along the way. Starring Geraldine Hakewill (Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries) and Michael Whalley (Slow West), the film tells the story of Charlie…
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) today announced that production of feature film comedy drama Never Too Late will take place in South Australia, with the shoot to commence this month. Described as cross between Grumpy Old Men and The Great Escape, Never Too Late is the riotous story of four heroic Vietnam veterans, famous for…
Filming has begun on the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling novel The Dry. Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Glitch), Keir O’Donnell (Ray Donovan, Fargo) and John Polson (Mission: Impossible II, The Sum of Us) join Eric Bana (Munich, Chopper, Dirty John) in the production from Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories.…
The Gold Coast Film Festival is set to cement its growing reputation as Queensland’s destination film festival for the Australian screen industry with a 12-day blockbuster of premieres, workshops, gala ceremonies, panels and networking opportunities. The 2019 event, which officially launches its full program today, will screen 107 films – including three world and 10…
Australian premieres have been announced for two of the year’s most anticipated Australian films. Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and Sophie Hyde’s Animals are set to have their Australian premieres at a celebratory Adelaide Film Fest Pop Up event in April. Both films will premiere with a red carpet gala screening and after party, with a…
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