Genna Chanelle Hayes’ Unifying New Series Empowers Women The first teaser has been released for Genna Chanelle Hayes’ new series Sisters. Sisters explores the deep friendship between four unique Australian twenty-something girls as they navigate modern society and evolve through love, loss, cultural differences, sexuality, faith and trauma. The series stars Tariro Mavondo, Gemma Forsyth,…
Directed by Louise Alston Written by Alison Spuck McNeeley and Casie Tabanou Produced by Steve Jaggi Starring Tiarnie Coupland, Sofia Wylie, Trae Robin and Kate Box After hopping on a bus to Harold Soccer Academy instead of Harold Academy Australian Semester at Sea, science fanatic, Cory Bailey has no choice but to complete a semester…
Melbourne production company, Bamyasi Media has released a trailer for Monkey Man, an upcoming dark comedy web series. Monkey Man stars comedian, Greg Fleet as Miles Shuman – A once-celebrated children’s entertainer, reduced to a twisted, child-hating dissolute living a life of hedonism and rejection. Miles finally gets a last chance to redeem his foregone…
Janine Hosking’s provocative Australian documentary The Eulogy will screen across the country over the next week as part of the Young at Heart film festival. The Eulogy is a stark exploration of the rise and fall of the extraordinary Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer. His story is framed poignantly by Paul Keating’s re-enactment of the famous…
Directed by Dee McLachlan Written by James S. Abrams Produced by Veronica Sive Starring David Arquette, Jackson Gallagher, Kendal Rae, Belinda McClory, Christopher Kirby, Ben Steel, Victoria Liu, Edwina Royce, Matthew Connell, Eliza D’Souza, Anna Burgess, Matt Callan and Michael Shanahan The Wheel is an Australian sci-fi action movie directed by Dee McLachlan. Filmed primarily at Melbourne’s Dockland…
A release date, cinema locations and a new trailer have been revealed for director Luke Sullivan’s groundbreaking new Australian film, Reflections in the Dust, ahead of its March 7 release. An unspoken event has caused civilisation to crumble, leaving the survivors to cluster in the wilderness. Among them is a blind girl (Sarah Houbolt) who…
A limited theatrical release has been announced for new Australian psychological thriller Pimped. The transgressive thriller starring Ella Scott Lynch (Love Child) and Benedict Samuel (The Walking Dead) will be released via Playground Films in conjunction with Bonsai Films. Cinematic, elevated, and performance driven, the story unfolds through the unique perspective of an abused and conflicted women who…
After more than a decade as one of Australia’s musical theatre stars, WAAPA alumni Lucy Durack (Wicked, Legally Blonde, Sisters, The Letdown) is set to premiere her screenwriting debut Lift, a bite-size romantic comedy set entirely in an elevator on 10Peach this Valentine’s Day. When serial temp Olivia (Durack) steps into an elevator for her…
Australian schlock horror maestro David Black is at it again with production commencing on his new gorefest, Badass Bunyip. Directed by Gerardo Chierchia, Badass Bunyip follows a couple of “nongs” who inadvertently awaken the devastating wrath of an ancient bunyip when they desecrate a sacred Aboriginal site at Christmas time. Tritia DeViSha stars in the…
Directed by Nicholas Wrathall Written by Nicholas Wrathall and Stephanie King Produced by Nicholas Wrathall and Stephanie King, Albert Wiggan and Mark Jones Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. Undermined – Tales from the Kimberley investigates the politics of an area now branded “the…
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