Cinema Australia Podcast #62 | Martin Wilson

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. We love taking a deep dive with filmmakers about their movies, but this interview was originally recorded for our radio segment on 2RRR, so you will notice this is a much shorter interview than usual. Regardless, this…

Crowdfunding campaign launched for sports doco Sharko

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Filmmaker Luke Graham has launched a crowdfunding campaign and teaser trailer for his new documentary, Sharko. The documentary will explore the life of Graham’s father – New Zealand Rugby League legend, Mark Graham. Sharko is the second feature length Rugby League…

Pandemic-themed The Neon Across the Ocean will have its Australian premiere at Revelation Film Festival

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The Neon Across the Ocean, an independent pandemic-themed feature film by prolific Asian Australian writer and director Matthew Victor Pastor will have its Australian premiere at the 24th Revelation Perth International Film Festival. The film is the first instalment in Pastor’s 2020…

Craig Boreham’s Lonesome begins filming in Sydney

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Shooting has begun in Sydney on the independent feature film Lonesome – the second film from writer and director Craig Boreham following his acclaimed feature debut Teenage Kicks. Lonesome is the story of Casey, a closeted country lad running from a…

Competition: Win a copy of Occupation: Rainfall! (Now closed)

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Thanks to our friends at Umbrella Entertainment and Monster Pictures we have a stack of copies of Occupation Rainfall to give away. Occupation Rainfall has been described as the most ambitious sci-fi film ever produced in Australia.  Following a major theatrical release earlier this year that saw Occupation Rainfall play…

Retro Review: Road Games

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Richard FranklinWritten by Everett De RocheStarring Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page Written by Gavin Bond Unabashed Aussie film fan Quentin Tarantino pronounced during one of his many interviews on the subject,…

Joey Menzel’s new comedy Night Shift is now available to stream

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Joey Menzel’s debut feature film, Night Shift, has landed on Amazon Prime, seemingly out of nowhere. After the death of their mother, two destitute brothers rob a service station in an attempt to pay off the mortgage on their family home.…

Filmmaker Joshua Scattergood prepping new feature film, Homo Ignarus

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by Matthew Eeles Joshua Scattergood has announced his new feature film, Homo Ignarus, which he will produce under his recently-launched production company, Prodigy Films. The 23-year-old Western Australia filmmaker studied at SAE Institute, before departing the creative media academy to get…