Drumroll please! Jan Cattoni has won the 2017 Big Pineapple film funding award. Jan’s concept, titled Yuki, was chosen from a pool of 305 script entries to the inaugural competition. Jan wins a $50,000 cash prize which will enable her to write and produce the feature film in time to be screened at the April 2018 For…
Raw and Cooked Media have dropped a revealing new trailer for Hotel Coolgardie ahead of its Australian theatrical release next month. Following a packed out screening at last years’ Sydney Film Festival, Hotel Coolgardie garnered national headlines for its depiction of the disturbing experience of two Finnish backpackers who found themselves the latest batch of “fresh…
Next Gen Webfest is an exciting new festival, run during Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July at The Backlot Perth, that celebrates short form content for the web by Western Australian emerging filmmakers. NEXT GEN is an event for emerging filmmakers that regularly screens short films on the big screen at The Backlot Perth…
In What If It Works?, Anna Samson give a very impressive, very award-worthy performance as scattered DID sufferer, Grace. In this interview, Anna speaks about preparing to play such a complex character, her admiration for her director and her upcoming performance in Kriv Stenders’ Wake In Fright. Interview by Matthew Eeles RELATED ARTICLES INTERVIEW: Romi Trower…
This month’s Australian Revelations, presented by Revelation Perth International Film Festival, celebrates the late, great John Clark in the classic piece of Australian cinema. Sam Neill and Zoe Carides stars alongside Clark in this story where the road to love is never smooth and where a strange trip down cemetery lane gives us one of…
Pulse Directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin Written by Daniel Monks Produced by Daniel Monks, Stevie Cruz-Martin, Gemma Hall Starring Daniel Monks, Caroline Brazier, Scott Lee Pulse is the ambitious debut of the talented Daniel Monks, who writes and stars in this body swap drama blending sci-fi with sexual teen angst and identity crisis. Olly is a gay teen with disability who…
Arghhhh! With every new trailer for Ben Young’s critically acclaimed Perth-shot thriller, Hounds of Love, comes new frights that are sure to have even the toughest of viewers diving under their bed covers. This new US trailer gives us our best look yet at the dynamics between Stephen Curry and Emma Booth’s John and Evelyn White, the film’s deranged antagonists who…
A brand new trailer has dropped for Roger Scott’s highly anticipated horror film, The Marshes, and it has a Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe about it. In the middle of nowhere is a labyrinthine marshland teetering on the verge of extinction. Committed to saving it is Dr Pria Anan using diligence and reason to fight the forces…
The Gold Coast Film Festival has revealed the winner its inaugural Best Australian Indie Film Award. Romi Trower’s feature film debut What If It Works? was selected from a group of five independent Aussie features included in the 2017 Festival program. A jury of five Australian film critics from the Australian Film Critics Association and the Film Critics…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, host Matthew Eeles chats with director Gerald Rascionato about his terrifying new found-footage horror film, Cage Dive. Cage Dive is a spine-chilling piece of cinema set off the coast of South Australia. It’s technically brilliant and one of the finest examples of found-footage horror ever produced……
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