Australian filmmaker Clare McCann has announced the launch of her new film festival, Sydney Women’s International Film Festival with the inaugural event set to launch on November 27 at United Cinemas Opera Quays. Festival director McCann conceived SWIFF to help address the gender imbalance in the film industry, and partnered with Marketing Director, Suzie Watt, to…
A US trailer for Seth Larney’s new Australian sci-fi 2067 dropped today. The year 2067: Earth is on the verge of collapse. After years of doing too little to reverse climate change, plant life is extinct and there is a dramatic reduction in available oxygen. With no cure in sight, humanity builds a quantum time machine…
Melbourne-based, multi-award winning physical comedy troupe The Travelling Sisters have released their new micro web series, Meet the Mullets. Meet the Mullets is a mockumentary about a passionate theatre troupe of blokes and their Mums, forced to stop work through a global pandemic. In this twisted character comedy, The Travelling Sisters don various mullets to…
R&R Films has announced that new Australian comedy Never Too Late will hit Australian cinemas on October 29 on approximately 150 screens nationally. Filmed on location in Adelaide, Never Too Late was directed by Mark Lamprell (My Mother Frank, A Few Less Men), was written by screenwriter and crime novelist Luke Preston and produced by Antony I…
Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment we’ve got a stack of Cult Girls DVDs to give away. Written & Directed by Mark Bakaitis, this nightmarish and hypnotic horror stars Jane Badler (V), Saara Lamberg (Innuendo), Dean Kirkright (Charlie’s Farm) and Brendan Bacon (The Faceless Man). Cult Girls is the story of Dalia and her two young sisters, who grew up in a…
It has been a big week for WA films with the announcement that submissions have opened for WA Made Film Festival 2021, the release of the Mystic Pines trailer ahead of the film’s world premiere at BIFF, and now the first trailer has dropped for Perth/Sydney-shot feature film, I Met a Girl. Directed by Luke…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Western Australian female filmmaking trio Zoe Pepper, Adriane Daff and Cody Greenwood are thrilled to announce their short film, Mystic Pines, has been selected to make its world premiere at the 2020 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). Mystic Pines…
by MATTHEW EELES We’ve said it before and we will say it again: Davo Hardy is one of the busiest directors working in Australian film. A year after the release of his most recent film, The Blood of God, writer, director and producer Hardy has announced he is in pre-production on his fifth film, Public Eye,…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. John Fraser’s bold black and white feature film Choir Girl will release via iTunes this month. Choir Girl tells the story of Eugene (Peter D Flaherty), a lonely photographer who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine (Sarah Timm), in…
The first trailer for the Catherine Dwyer’s feature documentary Brazen Hussies has today been released, ahead of the film’s national theatrical release later this year. Brazen Hussies celebrates the bold women who ignited a revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). Interweaving freshly uncovered archival footage, personal photographs, memorabilia and lively personal accounts from…
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