Thanks to Madman Entertainment we’re giving away ten in-season double passes to Jasper Jones, the story of Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14 living in a small town in Western Australia. Shot in Australia’s South West and adapted from Craig Silvey’s best-selling Australian novel, Jasper Jones features a stellar cast including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving,…
Tickets are on sale now for Q&A screenings of David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, a compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via…
PIAF Conversations are your opportunity to engage more deeply with the Perth International Arts Festival artists as they reflect on their work and the challenges, questions and propositions they are presenting at 2017 PIAF. Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds will discuss their work with Fenella Kernebone, where they will share their experiences filming in remote…
Tasmania’s Stranger With My Face International Film Festival will return for its fifth edition from May 4-7 2017. “Events like this are needed more than ever, with women’s rights under threat around the world,” says Festival Director Briony Kidd. “Women are angry, and they have a lot to say. Genre filmmaking is enriched by that sense…
Rough Stuff Written and Directed by Jonathan Adams Produced by Nicole Johnschwager and Kelly Tomasich Starring Gareth Rickards, Vincent Andriano, Sam Glissan, Hayley Sullivan, Katie Garfield, Jamie Kristian, Adam Horner and Ernie Dingo “An adrenaline-fueled thrill ride.” by Matthew Eeles 2017 is off and racing and Australian cinema is off to a flying start…
The Hidden Well has started shooting on location in and around Melbourne including St Kilda, Elwood and Brighton. The second feature film from director Robert Chuter (The Dream Children), The Hidden Well is a portmanteau feature film, composed of six standalone chapters all united by a stylistic cinematic framework and a strong ensemble cast including…
Environmental activists meet their match when they tangle with 4WD adventurers in Rough Stuff, which crashes into Australian cinemas from March 16. Rough Stuff is the action-packed story of an activist group making a dubious deal with treasure-seeking Rovers and their modified four-wheel-drives for an expedition through treacherous Australian terrain. Tensions rise and ulterior motives are…
Stephen Sewell’s Embedded with have a series of screenings across Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin during March. The series of screenings will launch with a special Q&A screening with Embedded writer and director, Stephen Sewell and film critic, Eddie Cockrell in Sydney. Embedded is an erotic political thriller detailing a war correspondent that meets…
Indigo Lake Written and Directed by Martin Simpson Produced by Brian Cobb, Martin Fabinyi, Ron Saunders and Martin Simpson Starring Andrew Cutcliffe, Miranda O’Hare, Marin Mimica and Pamela Shaw Famous artist Jack Zeffa is pressured into painting the portrait of a nightclub owner’s beautiful wife. When Jack falls in love with his subject, her husband’s suspicions overflow into violence.…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with much-loved Australian actor Steve Bastoni. Steve’s credits include Police Rescue, Neighbours and Underbelly, as well as films including Drift, The Matrix Reloaded, The Water Diviner and more recently Heath Davis’ Broke. He’s also the creator and founder of the Peninsula Short Film…
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