France has Cannes, New York has Tribeca, Sydney has Tropfest and now it’s Central Queensland’s turn with the recent announcement of The Capricorn Film Festival. This exciting new film festival, proudly representing the Central Queensland region, will celebrate its inaugural year on September 19 when it launches at the Gladstone Marina, where it hopes to showcase filmmaking…
Greenfield, an Australian-Danish web series directed by Julius Telmer, will have it’s world premiere at Luna Leederville on June 25. Greenfield is a ScreenWest 3-to-1 cinematic soap-drama web-series set in rural Australia. Filmed in Merredin, WA over the course of a month, the cast and crew worked and lived out of the old Cummins Theatre with the…
FTI announced the successful 2015 nominees for the 27th annual WA Screen Awards (WASAs) at an event held on Monday 8 June 2015 at Lot 20 Bar in the Perth Cultural Centre. The WA Screen Awards (WASAs) is the premier celebration of West Australian screen culture, celebrating excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive…
ScreenWest has announced this year’s Get Your Shorts On! program, which will delight and inspire as it showcases the talents of Western Australia’s short filmmakers. Programmed by ScreenWest and screening as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, this year’s Get Your Shorts On! features shorts that explore the ways we love, communicate with…
As of June this year, 41 women have been killed by violence in Australia. Because of the two women we lose to gendered violence each week, the men who continue to terrorise women, the social attitudes that permit, excuse and pardon this violence – the team at Nexus Production Group (NPG) is launching its latest project and fundraiser to challenge the status quo…
After a record breaking 2014, Revelation Perth International Film Festival has announced its expanded 2015 program. Revelation is acclaimed as Western Australia’s leading international film festival and annual screen culture event and firmly established as Australia’s filmmakers’ festival. It is dedicated to presenting independent cinema from around the globe in a context that explores film’s great traditions,…
FTI are pleased to announce that comedian Joel Creasey is the official host of the 27th West Australian Screen Awards (WASAs). The sell-out comedian, originally from Perth, expressed his enthusiasm of returning to his hometown to host the highly anticipated event. “I’m so excited to return home to host the WA Screen Awards. I’m going to approach hosting the night in the way…
Australian Revelations is a celebration of Australian film through a year-round, ongoing series of screenings and Perth produced Last Train To Freo will headline the next event on Tuesday 30 June. Last Train To Freo is set entirely inside a Perth train carriage and told in real time. The debut feature film for local Director, Jeremy Sims, it was written…
Cinema Australia are proud supporters of short filmmaking and believe they’re the backbone of the Australian film industry. West Side Shorts was recently brought to our attention so we thought we’d share it with our readers. West Side Shorts began in 2008 and is the longest running monthly film event in Melbourne. Held on every second…
The Melbourne International Film Festival revealed a sneak peak of its 2015 program today and it’s got the Cinema Australia team very excited. Some highlights of the program include Grant Scicluna’s Downriver, Neil Armfield’s highly anticipated Holding the Man, and short film The Nice House, following 2015 Australian of the Year and domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty. The…
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