EXCLUSIVE: First Australian feature announced for Revelation

It’s official! Cinema Australia is thrilled to let readers know the first Australian film announced to screen during the Revelation Perth International Film Festival is Jason Sweeney’s The Dead Speak Back. Nominated for Best Feature at the South Australian Screen Awards recently, The Dead Speak Back will feature alongside other locally produced films – announced here soon…

New website and trailer for Houghton’s Touch

Ahead of it’s screening at the Sydney Film Festival, Triptych Pictures has released a new website and teaser trailer for their new mystery film, Touch starring Cinema Australia favourite Matt Day. You can check out the website here. Love Knows No Boundaries Touch is a mystery about Dawn, a woman on the run with her young…

First look at Christopher Houghton’s Touch

On a cold winter morning Dawn commits a seemingly senseless crime, leaving a man unconscious, but she is running from something bigger. Dawn is harbouring a shattering secret. Taking flight with her young daughter, Steph, they hide out in a remote hills town where she tries to keep her restless daughter from prying eyes. Unpredictable…

Pearce gets wordy in new clip for The Rover

With society in decline, the rule of law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened loner Eric travels the desolate towns and roads of the scorched and dangerous Australian outback. When a brutal gang of thieves steals his car and only remaining possession, they leave behind the wounded Rey in their wake. Forcing Rey to…

A chilling new clip for The Babadook

Cinema Australia can’t wait for May 22 when Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is released in Australian cinemas. I don’t know how many more times we can watch the terrifying trailer or the original short film in anticipation for Kent’s psychological thriller but to satisfy us for another couple of weeks is a new short clip that was released this…

The Rover gets new trailer and posters

Hot of the news David Michôd’s The Rover will be screening as part of the Cannes Film Festival, the Australian director’s followup to his incredibly successful Animal Kingdom has been given a new poster and a new trailer. The Rover boasts a impressive ensemble of Australian acting talent including Guy Pearce, David Field, Anthony Hayes and Nash Edgerton. A…

Full length Jugular trailer drops

Perth-born novelist JJ DeCeglie makes his feature film debut with JUGULAR, and what a debut it is! Tense, claustrophic and genuinely harrowing, JUGULAR follows one man’s nightmarish decent into the recesses of his own mind. Recesses from which there are no escape. Jack is straight off the plane. He has few friends and no money. In desperation, he…

Massive month for Australian films during May

May 2014 is set to be a massive month with five highly anticipated Australian films set to hit cinemas. 52 Tuesdays 16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week,…