by Matthew Eeles The first trailer has dropped for West of Sunshine – Jason Raftopoulos’ debut feature which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. West of Sunshine stars Damian Hill as Jim, a deadbeat Dad who has less than a day to repay a gambling debt to a violent loan shark. Unfortunately,…
by Matthew Eeles 1% has been selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Discover program which showcases the work of emerging filmmakers. It will join feature films Breath, The Butterfly Tree, Sweet Country and documentary Cocaine Prison on the prestigious lineup. 1% was filmed in Western Australia with the support of ScreenWest’s…
Frisky Written, Produced and Directed by Claudia Pickering Starring Monica Ammerman, Claudia Pickering, Brandon Wardle, Cameron Hunt, Nicklaus Dzienny and Oran Stainbrook When two twenty-something women move back to San Francisco, where they had met on exchange years earlier, their high career aspirations quickly become sidelined by their sexual interests. While wildly crass and charismatic in their public personas, they are…
Hanging out for the new Han Solo film? He’s already here, covered in good-old Aussie dirt and dust according to Rough Stuff director Jonathan Adams. “Buzz is to Han Solo what Solo was to the Lone Ranger and The Man with No Name,” Adams told Cinema Australia following the recent home release of Rough Stuff…
29 Years & Eight Days, one of four new films from Meal Tickets director Matt de Koning, has launched a funding campaign through the Documentary Australia Foundation (DAF). 29 Years & Eight Days is said to be an intimate portrayal of Perth artist Matt Doust, an internationally renowned portrait painter from Perth who died suddenly…
Acclaimed observational documentary Hotel Coolgardie from Western Australian director, Pete Gleeson and Western Australian producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon is now available on demand on digital platforms including iTunes, Vimeo, Amazon and YouTube Movies. Following a World Premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Australian Premiere at Sydney Film Festival, a string of…
CinefestOZ Film Festival will host the West Australian debut of The Song Keepers. This Central Australian film will be screening on Aug 25 and 27 at Orana Cinemas Busselton, followed by an exclusive Q&A with director, producer and writer Naina Sen. In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a 140-year musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages,…
Ewen Leslie was just nine years old when he started acting professionally. It was on a popular children’s television series called Ship to Shore, filmed in and around Rockingham – a small coastal town about forty minutes south of Perth. After graduating from WAAPA in 2000, Leslie’s first feature film role was in Matthew Newton’s…
LoveStuck Directed and Produced by Murray Fahey Starring Rik Brown, Rama Nicholas, Patti Stiles, Cathy Hegarty, Nigel Sutton, Ewan Campbell, Lyn Pierse, Glenn Hall and Gabby Millgate Who do you choose: the girlfriend, the best friend, or the ex-girlfriend? LoveStuck is a full-length feature film starring award winning comedians and Theatresports impro stars. It’s a 100% improvised…
Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles sits down with actor Aaron Pedersen to discuss his new film, Killing Ground. Aaron also gives us the skinny on the new Mystery Road TV series directed by Rachel Perkins and starring Judy Davis and Colin Friels. This interview also includes two clips and a trailer for Killing Ground. A special…
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