Bronte Pictures, the prolific Australian feature film production house behind films such as Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, The Fabulous 4 and soon-to-be-released Beast of War, has announced an ambitious expansion plan under its new Bronte Studios banner. Under the new Studios’ structure, Michelle Krumm, former Miramax, The Weinstein Company executive and indie Producer joins the company as…
Charmaine Murray and Yasmin Kassim’s scripted feature Prawn Curry Christmas has been selected as the 2025 recipient of Screenwest’s coveted West Coast Visions, supported by $1.5 million. The richest filmmaking initiative in Australia for emerging filmmakers, West Coast Visions is designed to uncover, inspire and develop talented Western Australian filmmakers with distinctive visions for a…
Submissions have officially opened for the 2026 WA Made Film Festival. WA-based filmmakers are encouraged to submit their feature films, short films, documentaries, student films, web series, television episodes, and Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best smartphone films to be part of this unmissable event running from February 20 – March 1, set…
Production has officially wrapped on new short film, Nannu, an intimate and emotionally charged cultural drama inspired by writer/director Matthew C. Vella’s personal relationship with his late Maltese grandfather. Filming took place in Western Sydney in January 2025 and concluded in Malta in June 2025, marking a deeply symbolic collaboration between the two countries. Nannu…
Eight projects have been selected to participate in Stage 2 of VicScreen’s dynamic development initiative Originate Genre aimed at nurturing new voices in commercial cinema. Originate Genre is a two-phase development program designed to elevate live-action genre movie projects from concept to market-ready screenplays. The first stage of the program presented over four sessions earlier…
Expressions of Interest Now Open Filmmakers in Western Australia for the CinefestOZ Film Festival’s Industry Program – running 4 to 5 September 2025 – will have the opportunity to meet with some of Australia’s leading streamers, broadcasters and practitioners – including Stan, Paramount Plus, BBC Studios, Minderoo Pictures and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF)…
Bina Bhattacharya’s (co-director Here Out West) feature directorial debut From All Sides will celebrate its NSW premiere at the upcoming Queer Screen Film Fest. From All Sides is described as a subversive, sexually frank drama about a seemingly average suburban middle-class family. The film follows Western Sydney married multiracial bisexual couple Anoushka and Pascal who maintain…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced the first six films to screen at the 2025 Festival, with five of them directed by Australian women. These must-see films include the outstanding documentaries Journey Home, David Gulpilil, by directors Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas, and – having their World Premieres in Adelaide – The Colleano Heart from director…
A moving new Western Australian documentary, Pointe, is set to captivate audiences with its intimate and unflinching portrait of acclaimed dancer and choreographer Floeur Alder — daughter of ballet luminaries Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder — as she confronts trauma, family legacy, and the redemptive power of dance. At just 22 years old, on the…
A new trailer and an official release date have been announced for Luke Sparke’s Australian dino-actioner, Primitive War. Based on the popular novel The Primitive War by Ethan Pettus, Primitive War is set in Vietnam in 1968 and follows a recon unit known as Vulture Squad who are sent to an isolated jungle valley to…
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