Holy fandom! World premiere announced for new documentary Batman & Me

Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. New obsession documentary Batman and Me will have its premiere at the virtual Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in July. Directed by Michael Wayne, Batman and Me lifts the veil on a fandom rarely seen in Australia. Wayne cleverly amplifies…

New trailer! Brock: Over the Top

Seemingly out of nowhere, the first trailer has dropped for new Australian documentary, Brock: Over the Top. Directed by Kriv Stenders, Brock: Over the Top is a feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australia’s greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human…

Trailer of the Day: The Weather Diaries

Wirtten and Directed by Kathy Drayton Produced by Tom Zubrycki Sydney filmmaker Kathy Drayton muses on what the future holds for her musician daughter amidst the threats of climate change and mass extinction. The flying foxes that soar across Sydney each evening face many challenges: impacted by heatwaves, evicted from urban parklands, struggling to survive…

Cinema Australia Podcast Episode #46 | Isabel Peppard and Josie Hess

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, host Matthew Eeles is joined by award-winning director, animator and visual artist Isabel Peppard and award-winning horror, comedy, documentary and porn filmmaker Josie Hess. These two very…

Competition: Win a copy of Escape and Evasion! (Closed)

Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Thanks to our friends at Defiant Screen Entertainment, we’ve got a bunch of copies of Escape and Evasion up for grabs. A lone soldier returns home from a mission in Myanmar with traumatic PTSD. Trying to save his relationship…

Ambitious VR series ecosphere releases via Facebook’s Oculus

PHORIA, an award winning immersive technology studio, today announced the worldwide online release of ecosphere, their groundbreaking VR nature documentary series produced in partnership with Facebook’s Oculus, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Silverback Films. The series is narrated by Emmy Award winning actress and WWF Ambassador, Anna Friel, and will be available…

There’s a Shane Warne documentary in the works

Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. PRESS RELEASE Screen Australia has announced $2.1 million of production funding for 12 projects funded through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program. Projects include SHANE, a feature documentary about cricketer Shane Warne, and Woven Threads –…