Trailer of the Day: Jungle

Young Israeli Yossi Ghinsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) leaves a safe future behind to chase an improbable dream in the mysterious depths of the Amazon rainforest. For a year he journeys on the path well-travelled, but when he and two new fellow adventurers, Kevin Gale (Alex Russell) and Marcus Stamm (Joel Jackson), meet the darkly charismatic Karl…

The BBQ is heating up for an early 2018 release

Label Distribution’s Tait Brady and Madman Entertainment’s Paul Wiegard today announced that the two companies will jointly release the new Australian comedy The BBQ, starring Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski. The national release date is January 18, 2018. Shane, whose box office hits include Oddball and Kenny, and Magda, one Australia’s favourite comic actresses (Babe,…

Review: The Pretend One

The Pretend One Directed by Tony Prescott Written by Tony Prescott and James Raue Produced by Tony Prescott and Dinusha Ratnaweera Starring David Field, Garaldine Hakewill, Michael Whalley, Fiona Press, Benedict Wall, Elijah Perris and Alice Roberts “Who would have thought one of the most beautiful, heartfelt, emotional and complex on-screen relationships in Australian film…

Cast announced for Beresford’s Ladies in Black

Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer) has assembled an incredible Australian and international cast for Ladies in Black, the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 best-selling novel, The Women in Black. The film will star Julia Ormond (Mad Men) as Magda Szombatheli, the charming…

Trailer of the Day: Eleven Days

by Matthew Eeles The first trailer has dropped for Jaginder Singh’s WA-shot Eleven Days. Described as a family adventure, Eleven Days follows Ajit Singh, a 12 year old boy racing against time to locate his brother to stop him from getting trapped in the vicious cycle of terrorism. “It is really exciting to finally showcase the trailer…

RAW recipients announced

RAW, an incredible national opportunity for millennial Indigenous filmmakers wanting to break into the industry, today announced that 21-year-old student Enoch Mailangi, descendent of Bwgcolman and raised in the heart of the city of Sydney in Waterloo, has been chosen to have his web series concept developed and pitched to the ABC. The decision was made…

Tess Haubrich, Ben O’Toole and Monica Bellucci join Roache-Turner brothers’ sci-fi horror

The team behind Australian cult hit Wyrmwood are gearing up to start shooting their new film, Nekromancer. Monica Bellucci, Ben O’Toole and Tess Haubrich were recently cast as leads in the Roache-Turner brothers’ sci-fi horror. Nekromancer is a genre-mashing, sci-fi-horror which will take audiences on a cinematic roller-coaster traversing the full spectrum of human (and inhuman)…

Trailer of the Day: Tarnation

With the recent announcement that demonic cabin-in-the-woods-adventure film Tarnation will have its world premiere at this year’s Monster Fest, we thought it was the perfect time to share the film’s trailer. When Oscar’s dreams of becoming a rock star are brutally crushed and her boyfriend leaves, taking the cat with him, Oscar is forced to take…

In Focus: Cult Girls

Welcome to Cinema Australia’s new feature series we’re calling In Focus. The point of In Focus is to introduce you to an upcoming Australian feature film which may not be on your radar yet. If you’re currently filming an Australian feature film, or if you have one in the early stages of development, pre production or…