The Last Daughter, winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, will have a national cinema release from June 15. The Last Daughter, co-directed by Brenda Matthews and Nathaniel Schmidt, tells Brenda’s story. Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was…
An independent Australian horror film has been selected to screen at the world’s best genre film festival in America’s most haunted city later this month. Director Nick Kozakis and producers Lauren Simpson and Tim Whiting will attend the world premiere of Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism at the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans March 30 to April…
Watandar: My Countryman, the new documentary from writer, director and producer Jolyon Hoff (The Staging Post), will begin a series of screenings in cinemas around Australia from May 30. The film is the story of Muzafar Ali, an internationally renowned Afghani photographer who arrived in Australia as a refugee. When Muzafar discovers that Afghans have…
Following a successful world premiere at the recent WA Made Film Festival, Perth-shot action thriller Rampage Electra is set to take local audiences by storm with two screenings of the new film set for Luna Leederville next week. Written, directed and produced by Hassibullah Kushkaki, Rampage Electra follows Hannah Electra (Mikayla Levy), a young woman who has been expelled from…
Madman Entertainment has today released the official trailer for The Giants ahead of its Australian cinema release on April 20, 2023. The Giants explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in this cinematic portrait of environmental folk hero and gay icon Bob Brown who took green politics to the centre of power. From a…
A trailer has dropped for Love Me Lex ahead of the web series’ world premiere screening at the WA Made Film Festival next week. Love Me Lex explores what it’s like being a lesbian on the ‘other side’ of 45 looking for love through the eyes of Lex Adamson. Just as she meets the perfect woman in…
Samuel Rodwell’s award-winning short film Inferno is now available to stream on SBS On Demand. Going beyond the media blockade of the 2018 Mount Canobolas and 2019-20 Black Summer mega-fires first-hand, Inferno captures the volunteer firefighters who fought against all odds protecting their communities from total annihilation. The release falls on the fifth anniversary when the…
Umbrella Entertainment today launched the trailer and festival poster for Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness, ahead of its February 17 premiere in the Main Competition of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale – where the film is nominated for the prestigious Golden Bear, to be determined by a Jury headed by…
A new trailer and release date have been announced for new Hip Hop documentary, Burn Gently. Burn Gently is an exploration into the ins and outs of the Australian music industry, its growth, pressures, expectations and hardships, its success and failings; all through the lens of some of the most influential artists in Australian Hip…
RELATED COVERAGE Interview: Beck Cole Interview: Tracey Rigney We Are Still Here, the First Nations anthology film that opened the 2022 Sydney Film Festival and premiered internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be released in cinemas across Australia on February 16. Filmmakers and cast will be participating in Q&A screenings on February 16…
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