The deadline is approaching for submissions for the 2019 CinefestOZ Film Festival. Filmmakers have until Monday June 3 to submit their films for official selection at CinefestOZ Film Festival (28 August – 1 September). Official selection categories for Australian films and Australian co-productions are Film Prize ($100,000 award), General submissions for narrative and documentary feature length films, Short…
Camino Skies is a story about life, love and loss on the Camino de Santiago. It’s an inspirational journey of six antipodean pilgrims between the ages of 50 and 80 who embark on the historic 800 kilometre Spanish pilgrimage. In the face of overwhelming odds, the Camino forces the group to defy their age and…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Standing Up For Sunny Written and Directed by Steven Vidler Starring RJ Mitte, Philippa Northeast, Italia Hunt and Sam Reid Produced by Jamie Hilton, Michael Pontin and Drew Bailey “Tender, clever and very, very funny.” by Matthew Eeles It’s hard to believe Standing Up For Sunny is director Steven Vidler’s first…
Following a successful film festival run, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale finally has a trailer ahead ion its August release. The trailer and poster has been released by US distributor IFC Film. There’s no word yet if the Australian poster and trailer from Transmission Films will be the same. Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish…
For those still reeling from Saturday’s shock election result, a new comedy series is here to cleanse your palate and remind us all just how much of a circus modern politics has become. F Off We’re Full (yes, that’s it’s actual title), is a new Aussie satire about a group of young white nationalists who…
Welcome to another episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Stevie Cruz-Martin to discuss the beginnings of her career, her creative relationship with writer, actor and producer Daniel Monks and of course, Pulse. Pulse is the story of a gay disabled teenage boy who is devastated when he is neglected…
From 19th – 30th July 2019 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival will profile an eclectic, diverse and wide ranging collection of documentaries from both Australia and abroad. The final selection is an uncompromising, award-winning and challenging slate of documentaries from the world’s very best film festivals. Nearly half of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival’s total schedule…
Directed by Jeremy Cumpston Written by Hal Cumpston Starring Hal Cumpston, Frederick Du Rietz, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Holly White, Malcolm Kennard, Alan Dukes, Rhys Muldoon and Jeremy Sims A wild ride through the last days of year 12 with our anti-hero Hal alongside his slacker/jock mates. Amongst the hilarious universal teenage stupidity and chaos of the…
Cinema Australia Original Content: by Matthew Eeles First time feature filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven will premiere his new film Sequin in a Blue Room at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Co-written by Van Grinsven and Jory Anast, Sequin in a Blue Room is a stylish coming-of-age drama about Sequin (Conor Leach), a sixteen year old boy…
Director Davo Hardy has dropped the first trailer for his new film The Blood of God. Where there is poverty, there is religion. Where this struggle, there is faith. For Euan Morris, the only child of a working-class widower father, the path to God has been a lifestyle, an unquestionable truth, until his life is changed…
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