It’s time for film makers to get creative and submit their entry for the 2014 BOFA Devil Short Film Competition. Festival Director Owen Tilbury sees the annual short film competition as an important element of the BOFA Film Festival. “Many of today’s professional film makers got their start making short films, and we hope this…
Twisted Minds: Article written by James Pentecost (director) Development ‘Twisted Minds’ had a long genesis behind it before my involvement in the project. Executive Producer Jag Pannu had come up with the basic plot outline several years before and had engaged a local screenwriter, Teigan Isobel, to draft up the screenplay based on his story ideas.…
Always wanted to make your own films? The 48 Hour Film Project is a fantastic opportunity for new, budding and established film-makers to gain experience,connections, recognition and possibly prizes! The 48HPF is a wild, sleepless, marvelous, illuminating, manic, inspiring, savage and (mostly) enjoyable weekend of artistic experiment; in which you and your chosen dream team make a film. On Friday September…
Ahead of the 26th Annual WA Screen Awards on Tuesday, 14 July, Cinema Australia will be taking a look at three films nominated in the category of Best Short Film – The Fan, Tango Underpants and Barrow. You can find our feature on the categories forth nomination, Factory 293, here. BARROW: Article written by Peter Gurbiel (Writer/Producer) and Wade K.…
As reported earlier on this website Kriv Stenders’ Kill Me Three Times was to screen as part of the Melbourne International Film Festivals Centrepiece Galla. Tony Ayre’s Cut Snake will now be screen in it’s place while the premiere of Kill Me Three Times will screen as part of MIFF’s Premiere Showcase, a regional travelling…
CinefestOZ is delighted to welcome Bruce Beresford to the 2014 film festival as Jury Chair for Australia’s richest film prize, the CinéfestOZ Film Prize. The CinéfestOZ Film Prize encourages excellence in Australian filmmaking by providing a $100,000 award to an Australian feature film or feature-length documentary. Bruce Beresford’s role as Chair is to head the five-person…
Thursday 3rd July HERITAGE COLLECTION KIDS OPAL THEATRE Kids films daily at 10am, 12noon & 2pm SARAH RILEY THEATRE Waltzing Matilda Centre 12noon The Shiralee (1981) mini series 180 mins 4pm The Eye of the Rider (Duncan Menge) Motorcycle Adventure Documentary WALTZING MATILDA CENTRE 5-7pm ABC “Conversations” recorded live with Richard Fidler ROYAL OPEN AIR THEATRE 7pm…
“I’ve done a lot of research for this role which is always a big part of my work really. You could get monkeys to learn lines.” You’re in Melbourne at the moment. Keeping warm? Yeah, winter in Melbourne. I’m rehearsing a play and it’s been a full on week. How’s everything going with Glengarry Glen…
When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival…
Written by Neil Triffett (director): I’ve been fascinated by Emos for a while. There’s something admirable about people who accept life is full of misery while the rest of us are pretending we are happy and emotionally stable. To place an Emo – a sarcastic, despondent Emo youth – inside a light-hearted musical comedy creates instant…
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