Next Gen returns on Sunday August 14th at The Backlot Perth! This jam packed event will commence with the short films playing straight up at 6pm, an intermission at approximately 7pm and a new Cinema Australia presents Q&A segment with John Jarratt via Skype plus local filmmaker Steph Power in house. Next Gen have also added a “Best Film” award to…
Thinking of crowdfunding your next feature? Running Panda Films will be presenting its first industry event, Crowdfunding to Feature, with The Legend of Ben Hall director Matthew Holmes as a special guest speaker. In 2014, Holmes launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to raise $75,000 for a short form version of The Legend of Ben Hall. The film went on…
Support Low Budget Aussie Filmmakers – be the first to see undiscovered indie films on the big screen. Below Five Zero is a new film festival created to provide a platform for Australian films – features and shorts – made with a budget of less than $50,000. Screening this October the festival is your chance…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through its program of monthly screenings with Australian Revelations. Grant Scicluna’s acclaimed Australian drama Downriver will have its WA premiere at this month’s Australian Revelation event in Perth. A young ex-con encounters secrets from the past and…
CinéfestOZ has revealed its 2016 program and continues its proud tradition of showcasing the best of Australian film. CinéfestOZ is an immersive film and destination experience where audiences are invited to explore a diverse program of quality film from Wednesday August 24 to Sunday August 28. Over 68 venues and spaces will welcomingly open their doors to…
Sydney Film Festival’s Travelling Film Festival is bringing the producers and directors of new critically acclaimed Australian films Teenage Kicks and Constance on the Edge to Wollongong, hot on the heels of their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival. Director Craig Boreham and producer Annmaree Bell of Teenage Kicks and Constance on the Edge director Belinda Mason and producer Marguerite Grey will accompany their films to Wollongong on Saturday 20 August and Sunday…
Umbrella Entertainment has announced the Australian release of the internationally lauded, coming-of-age comic drama Girl Asleep on Thursday 8 September, with a series of advance Q&A events featuring key cast members taking place across the country. Based on the acclaimed production by Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre, Girl Asleep is a journey into the absurd, scary and beautiful…
The ultimate Aussie adventure is about to take flight. Motorkite Dreaming is a new feature film that follows two amateur daredevils who take a 4000km journey across Outback Australia in second-hand microlights – essentially hang-gliders with lawn mower engines. Along the way, they pass through 20 Aboriginal language nations, learning from these remote communities about the…
The Coffee Man It’s 4.30 am in Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. The sun is hours from rising, but Sasa Sestic is awake and in hot pursuit of the one thing that will make his day. Driven by his obsession, Sasa hunts for his own Holy Grail: the perfect cup of coffee The Coffee Man follows Sasa from Ethiopia, the birthplace…
Is This The Read World Directed by Martin Mckenna Written by Martin McKenna and Ben Michael Produced by Deborah Barlow, Martin McKenna and Alison Telford Starring Sean Keenan, Greg Stone, Susie Porter, Charlotte Best, Julia Blake and Matt Colwell In the real world you can’t just do what you want. In the real world you have to compromise. Mark Blazey does not…
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