Academy Award® winning filmmaker Eva Orner will join President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, crusading lawyer Julian Burnside and more for Q&As following a number of special event screenings of Chasing Asylum nationally. Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in association with Cinema Australia, presents Australian Revelations as a celebration of Australian film via monthly screenings. New Australian film Broke will have its Western Australian premiere at Australian Revelations on 26 April. Gambling, footy and the sometimes lonely environments of the suburbs form the backdrop of this terrific new Australian dramatic feature. Selected for screening at multiple festivals around…
FTI are pleased to announce that nominations for The 28th Annual West Australian Screen Awards (WASAs) are now open. Entries are invited from West Australian filmmakers and game developers across 33 categories and will close at 5pm on Monday, April 4. Nominees will be announced at a function in late May and the 28th Annual WASAs will be held on Monday 4 July 2016 at the prestigious Heath Ledger Theatre at the State Theatre…
Tickets are now available for new Australian film Crushed. Most of the event-style screenings with feature a Q&A with the writer, director and producer Megan Riakos as well as other cast and crew members including Sarah Bishop at Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne & Townsville, Les Hill at Sydney, Remy Brand at Mudgee and Robert Preston at Sydney…
From 10 March, Arc cinema will be screening the exclusive Canberra season of Stephen Page’s debut feature Spear, including a special Q&A with the director on Saturday, 12 March 2016. A unique cinematic experience told through movement and dance with little dialogue, Spear draws on Page’s formidable 25 years spent as Artistic Director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, where he has…
Australia’s newest film fest, the Noosa International Film Festival, is now open for short film submissions. Submissions are being accepted exclusively via FilmFreeway.com with official selections being screened publicly at various cinema venues. Submission guidelines are available at http://www.niff.com.au. NIFF is staging three short film competitions with an early bird deadline of 3 May, regular deadline 7…
St Kilda Town Hall is the perfect venue for the premiere screening of Daughter, a short film and awareness project produced and shot in the City of Port Phillip in September 2015, with the intention of capturing the true heart and soul of St Kilda while touching on important issues such as gender violence and…
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Directed by: Fred Schepisi Written by: Fred Schepisi Produced by: Fred Schepisi, Roy Stevens Starring: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch McGregor, Steve Dodd and Ray Meagher Jimmie is a young aboriginal man who through hard work and marriage to a white woman is doing everything he can to…
Meet the Festival Director – get the inside scoop on festival selection and Marketing and Distribution! Flickerfest l in 2016 will celebrate 25 years of screening the best short films from Australia and around the world in competitions and special showcases. Following the Festival in Sydney, a selection of films will go on tour to…
On March 29, 2016 we’re launching Cinema Australia Presents, a brand new initiative which aims to provide a showcase for Australian filmmaking talent and provide an alternative cinema experience for Perth audiences keen to catch the best, new-release Australian films on the big screen. Our event-style screenings will include Q&As with some of the countries finest filmmakers in…
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