Interview: Angourie Rice

Angourie Rice sits down with Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles to discuss her role as Eliza Wishart in Rachel Perkins’ new Australian hit, Jasper Jones. Jasper Jones is in cinemas across Australia now. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel while you’re there. Featured Image Source: IMDb

Exclusive! Your first look at Beast No More

“Evil, strong, ruthless.” – Meet Blanch, Beast No More’s intriguing new villain. Before you see the exclusive images from Aaron Warwick’s Beast No More below, we asked actress Erin Connor (The Suicide Theory, Rise, Space/Time) to share her on-set experiences filming the new Australian horror thriller. Some mystery still surrounds the film’s plot but what we do know…

Exclusive! Meet the cast of Can’t Win. Do Try.

JJ DeCeglie’s Can’t Win. Do Try. is a hilarious Perth-set comedy shot during a scorching West Australian summer. Bunked up in a rented Cottesloe abode, the cast and crew – many who have never worked on a feature film – formed a tight bond and created lifetime memories which they share below. “We spent much time getting…

Pawno (Competition Now Closed)

Paul Ireland’s critically acclaimed, AACTA winning film Pawno will be available on DVD and VOD from March 1. Cinema Australia are giving readers the chance to win a copy. Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia. It revolves around one day in the lives…

New film competition launches with a $50K prize to support women in film

Drumroll please! The inaugural Big Pineapple film competition is here. Designed to help overcome gender disparity in the Australian film industry, The Big Pineapple will support female-led emerging filmmakers to produce feature length films. With a workforce of just 16% female directors, 23% female screenwriters, 34% female producers and shockingly 7% female cinematographers*, The Big Pineapple will be an active step…

Interview: Rolf de Heer

“People are interesting, everybody is interesting.”  Rolf de Heer was in Perth recently for a Perth International Arts Festival Film Masterclass where de Heer and collaborator Molly Reynolds discussed their work with Fenella Kernebone. Audiences enjoyed hearing their experiences filming in remote Australia and collaborating with Indigenous communities – and hearing what it means to be a…

Trailer of the Day: What If It Works?

What If It Works? Written and Directed by Romi Trower Produced by Tristram Miall Starring Luke Ford, Anna Samson, Brooke Satchwell, Wade Briggs, Kaarin Fairfax, Art Simone, Djon Alexander and Eliza D’Souza Adrian (Luke Ford), an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Grace (Anna Samson), a beautiful street artist, suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder). As…

New poster drops for The Gateway

A new poster has dropped for John V. Soto’s upcoming Australian Sci Fi drama, The Gateway. Soto’s followup to his 2014 Perth-shot drama The Reckoning follows a particle physicist who is still grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash. She uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for…