A major national tour is underway this month for Ben Elton’s big-hearted ensemble comedy Three Summers, ahead of a hometown screening on Thursday October 26 at the Grand Cygnet Cinemas in Como. This will kick off a week of Q&A screenings and appearances at Perth cinemas, including a special charity screening in Mandurah for the…
Our friends at the Gold Coast Film Festival are calling for entries for 2018. Here’s the pitch: You’ve put blood, sweat, tears and money into your short or feature film, and now it’s time to build your film’s profile and find audiences. The Gold Coast Film Festival brings diverse Australian and International films, filmmakers and…
Last Tree Standing Written and Directed by Agnes Baginska Produced by Zachary Peel-McGregor and Agnes Baginska Starring Steve Kennevan, Jada Foster, Jeffrey Hedquist, Susan Peters, Lou Bolster and Sage Biros Jarmosco In a bleak world devoid of trees, Last Tree Standing tells the tale of a young dystopian girl named Lexie, who befriends a peculiar being – half-man, half-tree. Last Tree Standing is the most…
As a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films, Cinema Australia rarely gets the opportunity to throw cash at crowdfunding projects. Trust us, if we had the money we’d be executive producers on almost every new Australian film calling for supporters through the myriad of crowdfunding platforms available on the interwebs. That’s…
In the darkness of the night, Riley returns to the broke down and desolate part of the city he once inhabited. Riley, a young drifter, searches for a new future among the violent and unforgiving ruins of the past. Written and Directed by Damian Overton Produced by Damian Overton and Manon Lewis Starring Ryan Light,…
A new, visually striking trailer has dropped for Dallas Bland and Ché Baker’s new sci-fi action film Blue World Order. After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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