Playing with Sharks, the feature documentary from director Sally Aitken and producer Bettina Dalton, has been selected to screen at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section. The WildBear Entertainment production is one of only 10 films from around the world to be chosen for this prestigious and highly competitive…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer dropped for Australian sci-fi/horror The Dustwalker along with cinema release details. An Alien spacecraft crash-lands in an isolated town in the middle of harsh desert. It’s protected content is damaged, releasing an insidious parasite that attacks the brain of…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Occupation: Rainfall, the spectacular new Australian alien invasion blockbuster, produced entirely independently, will release in Australian cinemas on 28 January 2021. The film will open across more than 120 screens, reaching a wide audience of sci-fi adventure lovers and will be distributed…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, host Matthew Eeles is joined by The Furnace writer and director, Roderick MacKay. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman…
The Capricorn Film Festival, one of Australia’s best and fasted growing film festivals, is set to return in January bigger and better than ever. Central Queensland’s premiere film and arts destination event will include premieres, events, art experiences and much more. Presented by Livingstone Shire Council, the Capricorn Film Festival will be held from Wednesday…
Madman Entertainment has today released the official trailer for the triumphant true story, Girls Can’t Surf ahead of its Australian cinema release in March, 2021. Exploring an inspiring and little-known chapter of sporting history, Girls Can’t Surf follows the journey of a band of renegade female surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve…
The story behind Australia’s most famous swoopy boi has been given the big screen treatment, and you may need tissues for the new trailer. Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom (Academy Award® nominated Naomi Watts) a young mother whose world is turned upside down after a near-fatal accident leaves her paralysed. Sam’s…
Western Australian production company, Prospero Productions has announced it has kicked off production on its third immersive documentary, Star Dreaming, in partnership with Yamaji Art and the joint winner of the Premier’s WA Scientist of the Year 2020, the internationally renowned astrophysicist, Professor Steven Tingay. This Full Dome feature comes hot on the heels of…
Do we need a film about Port Arthur mass killer Martin Bryant? The short answer is no, but here’s the press release from Stan anyway: Stan today announced a new Stan Original Film, NITRAM, which is currently in production in Geelong, Victoria and will premiere on Stan in 2021. From the award-winning team behind the…
A hilarious new trailer has dropped for Stan Original Film, A Sunburnt Christmas. The cheerful end to the year we’ve all been looking for, the feel-good Aussie family feature will premiere 11 December, only on Stan. Created and written by Elliot Vella, Gretel Vella and Timothy Walker, and directed by Christiaan Van Vuuren (Bondi Hipsters, The Other…
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