Inspired by the real-life plight of workers sold into Southeast Asia’s fishing industry and featuring a powerful performance from its first-time star, this gripping high seas drama was awarded the Panorama Prize by Berlinale’s Ecumenical Jury. Tired of toiling in the rice fields, 14-year-old Chakra (a magnetic Sarm Heng) leaves Cambodia in search of a…
KGB, a comedy web series created by Western Australian indigenous filmmaker brothers, Luke and Dan Riches, will premiere on ABC iview on Sunday 7 July and nightly on ABC Comedy from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July during NAIDOC Week 2019. Set in Perth’s notorious KGB (Koondoola, Girrawheen, Balga), the series follows two rookie…
The first trailer for H is for Happiness quietly dropped overnight via Melbourne International Film Festival. H is for Happiness was shot in the picturesque coastal town of Albany, in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The colourful film is the debut feature from well-known theatre director John Sheedy, whose feel-good short film Mrs McCutcheon…
Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Transmission Films has released the official trailer and key art for Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, releasing in cinemas August 8, 2019. Starring an outstanding Australian cast including Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Daniel Webber, Nicholas…
Australian born Julian Galea has a lot to owe to his mother country of Malta – the filming location to both his follow up feature film Made in Malta and debut feature Love to Paradise, which won ‘Best Film’ at the Malta International Film Festival. Galea lives in Bondi where he wrote his new screenplay…
Camino Skies is a story about life, love and loss on the Camino de Santiago. It’s an inspirational journey of six antipodean pilgrims between the ages of 50 and 80 who embark on the historic 800 kilometre Spanish pilgrimage. In the face of overwhelming odds, the Camino forces the group to defy their age and…
Following a successful film festival run, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale finally has a trailer ahead ion its August release. The trailer and poster has been released by US distributor IFC Film. There’s no word yet if the Australian poster and trailer from Transmission Films will be the same. Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish…
Directed by Jeremy Cumpston Written by Hal Cumpston Starring Hal Cumpston, Frederick Du Rietz, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Holly White, Malcolm Kennard, Alan Dukes, Rhys Muldoon and Jeremy Sims A wild ride through the last days of year 12 with our anti-hero Hal alongside his slacker/jock mates. Amongst the hilarious universal teenage stupidity and chaos of the…
Cinema Australia Original Content: by Matthew Eeles First time feature filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven will premiere his new film Sequin in a Blue Room at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Co-written by Van Grinsven and Jory Anast, Sequin in a Blue Room is a stylish coming-of-age drama about Sequin (Conor Leach), a sixteen year old boy…
Director Davo Hardy has dropped the first trailer for his new film The Blood of God. Where there is poverty, there is religion. Where this struggle, there is faith. For Euan Morris, the only child of a working-class widower father, the path to God has been a lifestyle, an unquestionable truth, until his life is changed…
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