Australia’s premier genre film festival is back Nov 24-27, 2016 and has just revealed this year’s mammoth selection of 49 short films, marking a significantly increased commitment to short films from previous years. Monster Fest shorts programmers Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Catherine Seccombe and Hussein Khoder vetted hundreds of short films to bring you the most spellbinding, raucous and…
Mat de Koning’s Meal Tickets will open this year’s Sydney Indie Film Festival. Sydneysiders and visitors to the Australian capital will be able to enjoy the coming-of-age Australian rockumentary at the festival on Monday, October 10 which will include a Q&A with producers Brooke Silcox and Dave Kavanagh. Tickets are free and all donations go to help the Free…
Earlier in the year, Revelation Perth International Film Festival held a screening on Heath Davis’ Broke to a sellout crowd. If you missed it you’ll be happy to know another screening is being held next month at Event Cinemas, Innaloo on Wednesday, 12 October at 6.30pm. Ticket details below. An ageing rail worker, Cec, finds…
New Australian documentary, Hotel Coolgardie will be having its Perth premiere next month as part of Australian Revelations – a celebrations of Australian film presented by Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia. After screenings at the Sydney Film Festival and the internationally regarded Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs, Hotel Coolgardie comes to town…
On the back of the prestigious CinefestOz Award win, Australian coming-of-age comic drama Girl Asleep by Rosemary Myers has picked up fourteen additional screens ahead of its September 8 national release from Umbrella Entertainment. New cinemas include the Palace Cinema chain with three screens in Melbourne, two in Sydney, and one each in Adelaide, Brisbane and…
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. We’d just be positively un-Australian if we didn’t pay a tip of the hat to the footy finals. As our tribute to the great Australian game…
Cast from the Storm, an award winning Australian documentary that tells a tender story of transformation, acceptance and belonging, will be having its world premiere in Sydney this month. It brings you into the lives of ordinary teenagers with extraordinary stories – and the theatre program that gives them a voice. Asfar, Maryam and Wiam face the…
If you love to throw your support behind an independent Australian feature film, you’ll be excited to know that tickets are now on sale for an exclusive preview screening of Luke Sullivan’s debut feature film, You’re Not Thinking Straight. Strewn on the floor of a dingy public bathroom, a young man reflects on the tormented…
In Hobart this weekend? Whether you’re a zombie flick fan, a Western fan and/or you’re a filmmaker interested in unusual financing models and clever low-budget production, you won’t want to miss Bullets for the Dead presented by Monster Fest with assistance of FilmInk & Griffith University. A beautifully-lensed horror western out of Queensland that puts a…
CinefestOZ Film Prize Finalist, Jasper Jones, directed by Rachel Perkins, is set to make its Western Australian premiere at CinefestOZ’s glittering opening night at Orana Cinemas Busselton on Wednesday 24 August at 6pm. Adapted from Craig Silvey’s best-selling Australian novel and featuring a stellar cast including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and…
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