Alex Dimitriades and Ben Young join the CinefestOZ Film Prize jury

CinefestOZ Film Festival has revealed the full line up of jury members who will vote on the prestigious $100,000 Film Prize, which recognises the best Australian feature film. Marta Dusseldorp, Glenn Gainor, Alex Dimitriades and Ben Young will join Jury Chair Rachel Ward at the 2019 festival to decide on which of the five films…

Interview: Stan Grant

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  I’ve never been as moved by an Australian documentary as I was by The Australian Dream. It moved me because of the subject obviously, but I was also moved by it because I’m…

Interview: Bryan Brown

Cinema Australia Original Content: Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with Bryan Brown to discuss the Australian acting legend’s new film, Palm Beach. Palm Beach features an all-star cast of Australian screen legends including Golden Globe-nominated icons Bryan Brown (Australia Day), Sam Neill (The Daughter), Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant (Gosford Park), Greta Scacchi (The…

Competition: The Australian Dream (Now Closed)

We’ve got a bunch of double passes to give away to The Australian Dream. See details on how to enter below. The Australian Dream is a documentary that uses the remarkable and inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes as the prism through which to tell a deeper and more powerful story about race, identity and…

The Furies blood-soaked red band trailer is horrifying

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  Odin’s Eye Entertainment has today released the official red band trailer for the hotly anticipated horror film, The Furies, written and directed by Tony D’Aquino (Two Twisted) and produced by Lisa Shaunessy (Killing Ground) and The Film…

Q&A screenings of The Nightingale announced

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  Filmmaker Jennifer Kent will be appearing at special Q&A preview screenings of her upcoming film The Nightingale in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart this August, ahead of its national release later this month. A powerful and beautifully crafted…

Angel of Mine set to stalk Australian cinemas this September

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  R&R Films will release Angel of Mine on September 5, 2019 following the film’s upcoming world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August. Directed by Kim Farrant (Strangerland) and written by Luke Davies (Lion) and…

Party time! A new trailer has arrived for Animals ahead of its Australian release

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  A new trailer has dropped for award-winning director Sophie Hyde’s Animals – a feature adaptation of author-turned-screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth’s best-selling novel of the same name. Animals is an unconventional female driven comedy starring Holliday Grainger (Tulip Fever, My Cousin Rachel) and Alia…

Immersive world premiere announced for Whale Super Highway at CinefestOZ

Hot on the heels of their debut immersive documentary, Ningaloo – Australia’s Other Great Reef, which premiered at the WA Maritime Museum to a sold out five week run earlier this year, Prospero Productions has announced its highly anticipated underwater film, Whale Super Highway, is set to make its world premiere at CinéfestOZ in Busselton…