Tim Nathan’s BIFA and Bafta qualifying short film Thoughts & Prayers is now available to stream via Directors Notes. You can also watch it below. The digital premiere follows a successful film festival run, premiering at SXSW London, and Official Selection at Bolton International Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, CinefestOZ and Short Com Comedy…
Brayden Lewtas’ new short film Flathead has been released via the social media star’s Cinema Council YouTube channel. Directed by Lewtas and written by Jesse Bouma, the filmmakers have opted for a direct-to-audience model that is increasingly reshaping independent filmmaking, sharing the film with Cinema Council’s loyal online community which has amassed over 200,000 followers…
Written and directed by Jack Johnston, and starring Sophie Reynolds, Sandy Keayes, Cameron Mighell, Nicholas Vincent and Kira Nelson, Everything Grows in Eden follows a young woman who promises to take her suicidal best friend to an alternative retreat but when their volatile mutual friend joins the trip, an unexpected detour to a local commune…
Perth filmmaker Giles Chan’s new short film Interview follows an anxious woman desperately looking for work tries to survive a job interview. Giles Chan was born in Hong Kong and moved to Australia at the age of seven. He studied English Literature at university while writing, directing and producing his first feature film Jellyfish. It played…
Inspired by one of Australia’s most cheeky bank robberies, The Bank Manager is now available to watch on YouTube. There’s been a story doing the rounds in outback Queensland since 1932, that a group of local larrikins managed to rob two Cloncurry banks and get away with £14,000 – a small fortune at the time. …
An astral traveller and a detective risk everything to save a child from the clutches of a rogue demon in Dean Butler’s Terror by Night, which is now available to stream below via Alter. The film concludes the Evenfall trilogy, which began with Evenfall and continued with A Shadow in the Darkness. Shadow proved a…
Two friends experience a strange phenomenon when their goodbye method evolves from a handshake into a hug in the new short film, The Hug. Written and directed by Perth filmmaker, Drew Kendell, The Hug follows a gathering at a local neighbourhood bar with friends Paul (Matthew Hawksworth) and Ben (St John Cowcher) who reunite for…
After an international festival run, Lucy Green’s provocative short film, Disarmed lands on Omeleto (stream below) – redefining how we talk about survival. After premiering at Cinequest Film Festival and winning awards across four continents, Disarmed – a sharp, psychologically layered 7-minute short written, produced, and co-directed by Lucy Green – is now making its global online…
Cinema Australia is proud to host the new back comedy, Deadpan, which you can now watch in full below. Deadpan follows no-hoper Ryan who’s desperate to salvage his relationship with his girlfriend, Chloe. Ryan’s perfectly planned weekend away is turned upside down by an unexpected tragedy, forcing him to decide how far he’ll go to save…
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