Nominations announced for the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival – $10,000 cash prize up for grabs

Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival, has today announced this year’s award nominees who are in the running for more than $50,000 worth of cash and prizes across 16 categories. As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary are eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary…

Focus on St Kilda Film Festival #2: Director Matt Holcomb writes about his opening night short film, Flat Daddy

“It was a surreal, occasionally out-of-body experience.” Written by Matt Holcomb exclusively for Cinema Australia: I have made only a handful of short films – far less than I would have liked to have made at this point. I don’t consider myself to be a natural short-form storyteller; it’s just not something that comes easily to…

Focus on St Kilda Film Festival #1: Imagination Game director Alister Grierson writes about his short film

“Anyone familiar with the attention span of a seven-year-old will understand this was no easy task.” Written by Alister Grierson exclusively for Cinema Australia: Imagination Game began, like many ideas, as a conversation on a bus. My wife, Skye, had stumbled across a cult of conspiracy theorists online who had bought into the idea that…

It’s Back! Entries now open for Made in Melbourne Film Festival – Submit your film now

Submissions for the 2015 Made In Melbourne Film Festival are now open! MIM highlights Melbourne filmmakers and showcases the best short films, independent features, and high school films from Melbourne and Victoria. Now in their seventh straight year, MIM continues to innovate and grow and celebrate local creativity and 2015 will be no exception. This year…

Horror fans! Monster Fest announces weekly cinema screenings in Melbourne and Brisbane

MONSTER FEST PRESENTS: FRIDAY FRIGHT NIGHT will showcase a depraved cavalcade of the latest, greatest and rarest cult and horror cinema from Australia and around the globe. There will be world premieres, local premieres, re-runs of classic gems as well as rarities that may never have been seen on the big screen in Australia before. Where possible, the screenings…

Sophie Townsend’s Pretty Good Friends to screen as part of film focus series

Melbourne-made award winning indie Pretty Good Friends has been selected to screen as part of Classic and Cameo Cinemas Australian Film Focus series, with special Q&A screenings scheduled for 7 and 9 May. Tickets are available via Classic Cinemas and Cameo Cinemas websites. Pretty Good Friends has been dubbed Australia’s first mumblecore film, the unique…

Bluestone Church Art Space screening Aussie cult classics during May

Footscray’s Bluestone Church Arts Space will be screening a bunch of Aussie cult classics, including The Castle and Strictly Ballroom, every Sunday during May. The best thing is… they’re all free. Scroll down for a complete list of films and screening details. For more information about the screenings click here. Venue: Bluestone Church Arts Space –…

Don’t underestimate the shorts! – St Kilda Film Festival program unveiled

One of Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festivals, the St Kilda Film Festival, has today revealed its exciting ten-day program. Proudly presented and produced by the City of Port Phillip, the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival will showcase 100 of Australia’s top short films, music videos, archival screenings, youth programs, an extensive filmmaker development…

Miss Predestination at the Cinema? See it this Friday night at The Val

Fans of Australian cinema, sic-fi and all-round great films will be treated to a screening of Predestination this Friday night at The Val in Richmond. Working from sci-fi god Robert A. Heinlein’s seminal short story All You Zombies, this dizzying time-travel adventure from Queensland natives The Spierig Brothers is by far their most ambitious work…

David Parker and Adam Elliott to join director Nadia Tass for a special Q&A screening of Malcolm

Melbourne’s Cinema Nova will host a special screening of classic comedy Malcolm on Sunday, March 22. The 1986 Melbourne shot film stars Colin Friels and John Hargreaves. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Nadia Tass and screenwriter David Parker and will be hosted by Adam Elliott. Colin Friels stars as Malcolm, a…

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