by Matthew Eeles After a successful festival run in the United States Craig Anderson’s Red Christmas will be available for Australian audiences from early October. The unapologetic Australian horror film will be distributed by Umbrella Entertainment. Red Christmas is the first feature film for Craig Anderson who is a two-time AACTA award winner for Double…
Flow Written and Directed by Simon Elrahi Produced by Simon Elrahi, Malcolm McLennan and Johnny Lahoud Starring Rain Fuller, Osamah Sami, Veronica Lang, Ben MaClaine. Lisa Scarlett, Millie Samuels, Aska Karem, Neveen Hanna, Victoria Ferrara and Maria McCarthy Stephen (Osamah Sami) and Julia’s (Rain Fuller) marriage is strained, unstable and lacking intimacy. Although they try to connect at times, their efforts lack a certain flow that is seen with…
by Matthew Eeles Cinema Australia readers have been given an exclusive first-look at the brand new teaser trailer for Friends, Foes & Fireworks. The ambitious new Australian mumblecore film is written, directed and produced by Ivan Malekin and Sarah Jayne and was shot in a single day. “This idea was one of those small convos…
Wow! A new trailer has dropped for Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback Northern Territory. When Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills white station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie) in self-defence, Sam and his…
Potential Films have announced an October 12 release date for its new thriller, Bad Blood. Bad Blood reunites Spin Out co-stars Xavier Samuel and Morgan Griffin, although from memory this was shot before the Tim Ferguson vehicle. Carrie (Morgan Griffin) is in love with her new fiancé Vincent (Xavier Samuel), a handsome and successful author. Vincent…
A very dramatic and intense teaser trailer has dropped for Stephen McCallum’s bikie drama 1%. 1% will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Discover program which showcases the work of emerging filmmakers. The crime drama stars Matt Nable as the vice president of an outlaw motorcycle gang who must betray his president…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. This month Australian Revelations presents the 1998 drama Head On based on the novel Loaded written by Christos Tsiolkas. The story of Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a…
by Matthew Eeles The first trailer has dropped for West of Sunshine – Jason Raftopoulos’ debut feature which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. West of Sunshine stars Damian Hill as Jim, a deadbeat Dad who has less than a day to repay a gambling debt to a violent loan shark. Unfortunately,…
Frisky Written, Produced and Directed by Claudia Pickering Starring Monica Ammerman, Claudia Pickering, Brandon Wardle, Cameron Hunt, Nicklaus Dzienny and Oran Stainbrook When two twenty-something women move back to San Francisco, where they had met on exchange years earlier, their high career aspirations quickly become sidelined by their sexual interests. While wildly crass and charismatic in their public personas, they are…
CinefestOZ Film Festival will host the West Australian debut of The Song Keepers. This Central Australian film will be screening on Aug 25 and 27 at Orana Cinemas Busselton, followed by an exclusive Q&A with director, producer and writer Naina Sen. In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a 140-year musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages,…
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