Focus on MDFF: Finding Creativity

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Written by filmmaker Roger Ungers  When I think of creativity, I get this image of an artist, such as a painter, being entranced in a romantic moment of expression as they pour their heart and soul onto…

Must Watch! See the new trailer for Tyson Wade Johnston’s Streamline

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. We’ve seen it. It’s incredible. Stay tuned for our review over the coming weeks. Umbrella Entertainment has announced the theatrical release date of Streamline – starring Levi Miller, Jason Isaacs and Laura Gordon – which will screen in cinemas nationally on…

More Australian films announced for MIFF

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Celebrating its 69th edition, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has revealed its 2021 program, with an astonishing lineup of 283 international and Australian films and transformative screen experiences. Presenting 199 feature films, 84 shorts and 10 XR experiences, the program includes…

Good For Nothing Blues set for world premiere in Perth

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Good For Nothing Blues will have its world premiere in Perth next month. Alexander Lorian’s WA-shot crime comedy follows Calvin and his group of dole-bludging friends who suddenly come into money when they win $200,000 on the lottery. Having money for…

Focus on MDFF: We Are Conjola

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. On New Year’s Ever in 2019, filmmaker Ash Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the…

New Trailer! Mental as Everything

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Mental as Everything, a documentary about living with a mental illness, will have its world premiere at Cinema Nova in Carlton as part of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Mental As Everything is an original documentary by Melbourne-based writer, musician and…

Uncle Chop Chop is back! Chopper 20th anniversary screenings announced

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Mushroom Pictures and Pariah Productions have announced that critically acclaimed and multi award-winning Australian cinema classic Chopper will have a strictly limited re-release in theatres across the country from August 26 to celebrate the iconic film’s 20th anniversary. Never available on streaming services, this…

Joey Menzel’s new comedy Night Shift is now available to stream

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Joey Menzel’s debut feature film, Night Shift, has landed on Amazon Prime, seemingly out of nowhere. After the death of their mother, two destitute brothers rob a service station in an attempt to pay off the mortgage on their family home.…