Revelation Film Festival opens international call for entries

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Revelation Perth International Film Festival is calling for entries for its 2021 edition and is looking for films of all forms, all durations, all subjects and all nationalities. This call for entries underpins the annual program slate and provides a unique…

A new trailer has landed for psychedelic sci-fi horror High Strangeness

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer has dropped for, High Strangeness. Written and directed by Casper Jean Rimbaud and produced by Destiny West, who previous wrote, produced and directed The Unhallowed respectively, High Strangeness was shot in the small WA Wheatbelt town of Quairading. When…

Download the Cinema Australia 2020 Watchlist

How many Australian films did you watch this year? If the answer isn’t many, you can hardly blame yourself. Almost every Australian film scheduled for a 2020 release was disrupted by the pandemic. Film festivals around Australia did a great job to continue showcasing new Australian films either online, or physically, albeit with restricted audience…

Win a 2020 Australian film prize pack!

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. To round out the remainder of the year, we’re giving you the chance to win one of three Australian film prize packs including Escape and Evasion, Koko: A Red Dog Story, Paper Champions and Below. See entry details below. Escape and…

Shooting The Dustwalker’s alien dust storm in outback WA

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. by Sandra Sciberras (Director, The Dustwalker) The Dustwalker is my second film working with visual effects in a way that I hadn’t before and in ways that I would do again, and again if I have the…

New Trailer! Hugo Weaving, Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Stephen Curry are under surveillance in Lone Wolf

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Following a postponed August 2020 release, Jonathan Ogilvie’s new Australian thriller Lone Wolf will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. A brand new Lone Wolf trailer has also been released via the IFFR YouTube channel. Set in contemporary…

Friends and Strangers world premiere set for IFFR

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. James Vaughan’s feature film debut, Friends and Strangers, will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The new Australian film will screen as part of the Tiger Competition – IFFR’s trade mark competition that celebrates the innovative and adventurous…

New world premiere dates confirmed for This is Port Adelaide

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. As a staunch supporter of the mighty West Coast Eagles, I’d love to be reporting on a new Eagles documentary. But I’ll just rewatch the one we got last year following our heart pounding win over Collingwood in the 2018 Grand…

Perth audiences set for live Q&A with filmmaker Robert Connolly

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to see an early screening of The Dry, and it’s already one of our favourite films of next year. Perth audiences will be treated to a special Q&A screening of The Dry on January 3, that will…