This year’s Gold Coast Film Festival boasts an impressive lineup of new Australian films. Opening this year’s festival is Mairi Cameron’s The Second, written by My Mistress scribe Stephen Elliot. It’s a tight psychological thriller starring Australian acting veterans Racheal Blake, Susie Porter, Vince Colosimo and Martin Sacks. Hot off the heels of its successful…
Australia’s answer to The Buena Vista Social Club, The Song Keepers tells the inspiring story of an Aboriginal women’s choir and their first tour of Germany. In the churches of remote Central Australia, a 140-year musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages, German sacred hymns and baroque music is being preserved by four generations of women…
Article by Davo Hardy In the four years since its release, my 26-minute film about two young men sharing an apartment has been the gift that keeps on giving. What makes it stand out? The bloke subletting the apartment is a nudist. Complex is a comedic celebration of non-sexual social nudity (with a sex scene…
Label Distribution will release Clayton Jacobson’s Brothers’ Nest across Australia on 10 May. Brothers’ Nest had its world premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas last month, receiving rave reviews with The Hollywood Reporter commenting that the film is “an Aussie spin on the kind of bloody farce we expect from Ben Wheatley or the Coens… a…
Brisbane audiences are set to get an exclusive advance screening of Occupation as Luke Sparke’s new Sci-Fi/Action film secures the opening night spot of Monster Fest’s annual Brisbane event Friday, May 25 Experience first contact in the last place you would expect: Occupation is the highly anticipated new film featuring an outstanding cast of Australian and international names including Dan…
by Matthew Eeles Jason Raftopoulos’ new Melbourne-shot drama West of Sunshine will have it’s Australian premiere at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. West of Sunshine is an exhilarating piece of Australian cinema, depicting Jim’s (Damien Hill) rocky relationship with his stepson (Hill’s real-life stepson Ty Perham), whilst navigating the collapse of his family and managing…
Kerry Fox (Cloud Street), Ursula Yovich (Australia), Shari Sebbens (Redfern Now), Huw Higginson (A Place To Call Home) and Elaine Crombie (Black Comedy) are set to join Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires) when production begins this month on Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding. Top End Wedding is co-written by Tapsell and Joshua Tyler (Plonk) and tells…
You can almost feel the sticky carpet and smell the motel rooms in this most excellent longitudinal documentary about the ups, downs, ins and outs and roundabouts of life in a rock band. In what was dangerously close to becoming a life’s work for director Mat de Koning, Meal Tickets centres on the supped-up rise of Perth…
Directed by Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling Written by Yolanda Ramke Produced by Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings, Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder Starring Martin Freeman, Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius, Simone Landers, David Gulpilil, Natasha Wanganeen, Bruce Carter, Kris McQuade and Andy Rodoreda The first official trailer has arrived for Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s Cargo. Martin Freeman plays…
Writers and producers keen to carve out a career in the film industry can now apply for Behind Closed Doors, a new initiative run by CuriousWorks and supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Ideas Program, that connects emerging storytellers in Western Sydney with some of the industry’s most experienced creative talent. The purpose of Behind Closed Doors…
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