Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment we are giving our readers the chance to win an in-season double pass to Back of the Net, a film about friendship, teamwork, romance and most importantly being yourself, in Cinemas April 18. After hopping on a bus to Harold Soccer Academy instead of Harold Academy Australian Semester at Sea, science fanatic, Cory…
The touching story of an Australian performer whose alter-ego is a talking robot will have its world premiere at the prestigious Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival next month. Happy Android is a new 25-minute documentary from award-winning Brisbane filmmaker Jaina Kalifa. It focuses on Melbourne street performer Paul Cooper, who has entertained audiences around the world for…
Following a successful film festival run, director Travis Beard’s RocKabul will be released in cinemas on May 2. RocKabul is a documentary about Afghanistan’s first metal band, District Unknown, that existed on the fringes of Afghan society and beyond comprehension of conservative Islam. While living in Afghanistan for seven years, Australian filmmaker Travis Beard began recording…
Actors Miranda Tapsell (The Sapphires), Gwilym Lee and director Wayne Blair will embark on a Q&A tour of their new film Top End Wedding at four cinemas in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin ahead of the film’s Gala Screening at the Gold Coast Film Festival. There is no news yet on a Queensland, Western Australia…
Screenwest, Screen Australia and ABC Indigenous have announce KGB, a comedy web series created by Western Australian indigenous filmmaker brothers, Luke and Dan Riches, has been greenlit by the ABC thanks to Screenwest’s Indigenous Online Initiative – Originate. Set in Perth’s notorious KGB (Koondoola, Girrawheen, Balga), the series follows two rookie detectives, tough guy Jack…
Celebrating its fifth year, submissions are now open for the Capricorn Film Festival – a highly celebrated film event held annually in Central Queensland. This year, the festival will be a four-day cinema event to be held in late November at the beautiful beachside tourist destination of Yeppoon. Submission categories include feature film, documentary and short…
Papercut tells the story of two closeted actors on their way to their first high profile awards ceremony, as they fight both expectation and each other in the back seat of a car. Papercut screened on opening night at the Perth International Queer film festival. At the conclusion of the seven-day festival this week Papercut…
Madman Entertainment has today released the official trailer for the hotly anticipated documentary 2040, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film). The hit 2015 documentary That Sugar Film saw Gameau transform himself into a ‘human lab rat’ to trial the effects that a high sugar diet has on the human body.…
The coming-of-age Australian feature film The Pretend One will embark on a screening and Q&A tour throughout March, April and May covering the major capital cities, as well as some special regional centres along the way. Starring Geraldine Hakewill (Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries) and Michael Whalley (Slow West), the film tells the story of Charlie…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Australian filmmaker Anthony Maras has delivered one of the year’s best films, and one of Australia’s great feature film debuts. We caught up with Maras to discuss the brutally violent and frighteningly real, Hotel Mumbai. “You have to put on your emotional armour for this film.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Hotel Mumbai…
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