Written, Directed and Edited by Kate Lefoe Produced by Honeylyn Lisson Starring Mary Holgate Cinematography Darrell Martin Somersault Pike is a poetic exploration of the thought process involved in working through self-doubt, mentally preparing for action, and taking the final steps towards achieving a goal. It is played out in on the ten-metre dive platform,…
NITV and Screen Territory have partnered on an exciting initiative and are calling for emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screen practitioners based in the NT to get involved. The initiative, Red Ochre, is looking for teams to submit ideas for a half hour documentary, a short form documentary series or an entire 3 x…
Highly anticipated Australian sci-fi action film, Occupation, will have its World Premiere at Sydney’s Ritz Cinema on Tuesday July 10, ahead of its Australian release in cinemas on July 12th 2018 and New Zealand on July 26th 2018. Following on from sold-out advance screenings in Brisbane, Melbourne and the Gold Coast, it’s Sydney’s turn to…
Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with director Clayton Jacobson to discuss his brilliant new black comedy Brothers’ Nest. Not only has Jacobson delivered one hell of a film, he’s also given us one of the finest performances of the year. Brothers’ Nest is a gripping, seriously strange, seriously dark drama sure to go down…
Summer School Written and Directed by Joel Stephen Fleming Starring Matthew French, Reshael Sirputh, Gabriel Stoltz, Sam Sidhu, Candice Hill, Paul Tucker, Jake Doak, Gerick Thomsen and Will Kelly Summer School is the hilarious new multi-cultural comedy web-series created by emerging filmmaker Joel Stephen Fleming (13th Street Films). The show centres on a group of inept educators…
The Gold Coast Film Festival will award national screen industry award, the Chauvel Award, to producer Sue Milliken this month. With a career across film and TV stretching from the late 1960’s to today, Milliken is a highly regarded and lauded Australian producer. Most recently, Sue co-wrote and produced the Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black,…
Zombie Bro Written and Directed by May Grehan Produced by Claudia Pickering and May Grehan Starring Lauren Grego, Anthony Taufa, Cooper Flynn, Karina Bracken, Natassija Belle James, Claudia Pickering, Ned Morgan and Keoni Davis They say blood is thicker than water, but does infected zombie blood count? When Francine catches her brother, Teddie, in the act of attack,…
Written and Directed by Jemma van Loenen Produced by Jemma van Loenen and Phill Northwood A documentary feature film on Australian Amateur boxer Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir. Two time Australian Flyweight champion, and current Oceania Bantamweight champion,Bianca aims to be the first Australian to win a World Amateur Boxing Championship. Fighting the legacy of a drug ban, a series…
Adelaide will host the world premiere of new supernatural Australian horror film The School. Shot in Sydney at Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, one of Australia’s original asylums, this claustrophobic and terrifying ghost tale is the feature-length debut of writer and director Ashwood. The School stars Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby), Megan Drury (Manny Lewis) and Will…
“It was almost as if no one cared about the films, what they meant, what they were about.” Written by Aaron Kamp The journey of making Hidden Light began back in 2013, while I was on my way to Los Angeles for the world premiere of my debut short film, Never Too Late. With plenty…
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