Harry Quinlan, best known as Gordon in Can’t Win. Do Try., has put together a seven part Australian webseries called Plum Loco. If you’re a fan of the format, or comedy in general, you’re going to want to check this one out. lum Loco has great writing, great themes, it’s very well acted and brilliantly put together. “The…
Hot on the heels of the worldwide release of his 2016 independently produced feature The Legend of Ben Hall, Melbourne writer-director-producer Matthew Holmes is once again saddling up for an even grander bushranger tale and the second film in his planned series titled The Legends Anthology. The Legend of Ned Kelly will be an epic…
Defiant Lives Directed by Sarah Barton Written by Sarah Barton Produced by Sarah Barton, Liz Burke The history of the disability rights movement, featuring a litany of impressive activists determined to create a world where everyone, regardless of impairment, is valued and can participate fully. The story of the rise and triumph of the disability rights movement, featuring…
We’re giving readers the chance to win one of two Hotel Coolgardie prizes. Perth winners will receive a double pass to see a special Q&A screening of Hotel Coolgardie at Luna Leederville on Tuesday 30 May, while national winners will receive an in-season double pass to the incredible new Australian documentary. Following a packed out…
Independent Australian action sci-fi movie Occupation has ramped up filming with the casting of four key roles. Joining the fight for survival are Logie-Award winning actor Aaron Jeffery (Wentworth, McLeod’s Daughters), Kat Risteska (Home and Away, Dance Academy), Ben Chisholm (Red Billabong, The Legend of Ben Hall) and Erin Connor (The Suicide Theory). Now in the third week of a…
When I told Jack Thompson I was calling from Fremantle in Western Australia, he was quick to let me know how fond he was of the Port City. In the mid-90s, Thompson acted in Graeme Rattigan’s Under The Lighthouse Dancing which was shot just off Fremantle on the west coast’s most famous island playground, Rottnest.…
Message Man Written and Directed by Corey Pearson Produced by Corey Pearson and Mark Nelson Starring Paul O’Brien, Verdi Solomin, Aji Sontosa and Agni Pratistha Kuswardono Message Man is the story a retired hitman Ryan who lives a life of solitude on his boat skirting around the islands of Indoensia. When Ryan’s boat breaks, he is…
Ozflix have teamed up with the National Film and Sound Archive to make available the countless classic Australian films NFSA have in their archives. Previously these pieces of Australia’s cinematic history were only available to the public through screenings at ACMI in Melbourne, AFTRS in Sydney or the Arc Cinema in Canberra but will now be available for the first time nationwide,…
Love Socks Directed, written and produced by Shailla Quadra Starring Michele-Antonio Mattiuzzi, Shailla Quadra, Adam Williamson, Natalie Rose, Paul Armstrong, Olga Markovic, Rhys Gillmer, Khanh Trieu, Amber Gokken, Matthew R. Grego, Amanda Jane Porter, Samantha Beames, Joseph Famularo, Tia Malouhi Love Socks is a heart-warming story about love, family, friends and bodily function anomalies! It’s a romantic comedy that follows the story of Frederica. As a child she is diagnosed with a phenomenon known as Raynaud’s,…
A contemporary re-telling of the 1976 iconic family film, Storm Boy will begin principal photography this July across South Australia. Geoffrey Rush will star as Mike “Storm Boy” Kingley, who recounts his childhood adventures to troubled teen granddaughter Madeline in an effort to prevent her from making the same mistakes he made years before. He tells her the…
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