Kelly Bergsma’s new feature documentary Invisible Injuries explores the hidden cost of trauma, service, PTSD, and the long road toward healing. Through deeply personal stories, expert insight, and cinematic re-enactments, the film looks beyond the surface of survival and into the human process of rebuilding identity, connection, and purpose after trauma. Centred around the experiences…
The trailer for the chilling new horror Leviticus was launched today in advance of its cinema release all across Australia from June 18, 2026. The film is penned and directed by the brilliantly talented Adrian Chiarella and produced by the prolific Australian genre specialists Causeway Films (Talk To Me, Bring Her Back, The Babadook). Leviticus…
From award-winning Bra Boys director Macario de Souza, In Pieces Together follows Blake Johnston’s record-breaking surf and mission to spark a national conversation about mental health and suicide. Hype Republic has released the official trailer for Australian documentary, In Pieces Together, written, directed and produced by two-time AACTA award winning filmmaker Macario de Souza (Bra Boys,…
Rafael Star’s Manhunt will screen at this year’s Gold Coast Film Festival. The new feature film follows Max (Harry Duckworth), a very successful property developer who begins to question who he is actually working for following a series of strange events. In this eerie mystery thriller, Max is a young and very successful property developer…
Jack Johnston’s micro-budget road movie, Everything Grows in Eden, is about dreaming, dying, and living with other people, from an emerging country Victoria auteur A young man, Shane (Cameron Mighell), tries to kill himself by jumping in front of a train. His friend, Lily (Sophie Reynolds), rushes to save him but she’s shaken by how…
The new documentary (or is it?) That Half Barbaric Twang – about the musical misadventures of legendary Aussie actors Geoff Morrell and David Field, and their gifted musical brother-in-arms Tim Oxley – will take to the stage and make its local bow at The Gold Coast Film Festival in April. What do you get when…
Australian independent feature film, Violet, is set to celebrate its world premiere at the upcoming Gold Coast Film Festival. Co-written and directed by Derek Yang, Violet follows Arthur, a struggling playwright staging a make-or-break theatre adaptation of The Angel of Amontillado. When he unexpectedly recasts aspiring actress Georgia in the lead role — once synonymous…
Bonsai Films has released the official trailer for First Light, the debut feature film from acclaimed Filipino-Australian filmmaker and photographer James J. Robinson. Written and directed by Robinson, who won the Blackmagic Design Best Australian Director Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival last year, the film is the first official co-production between Australian and…
Directed by Serge Ou (Ride, Runn, Ford vs Holden, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks), Under a Bamboo Sky is a previously untold tale of human connection, hope and resilience in the face of great tragedy. Using new technology, it brings to life the unbelievable true story of Australian soldiers held prisoner by the Japanese in…
The official trailer for Warwick Thornton’s highly anticipated new film Wolfram, set to be released in Australia on April 30, has been released alongside the announcement of a national Q&A screening tour. Set on the colonial frontier of the 1930s, in the same universe as Thornton’s multi-award-winning Sweet Country, Wolfram follows two swaggering outlaws who roll…
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