Revelation Perth International Film Festival is joining forces with the Department of Local Government and Communities and Screenwest to raise awareness and challenge misconceptions about ageing as part of a new short film competition, Life In Pictures. With the endorsement of the World Health Organisation and the International Federation on Ageing as a way of challenging…
Adapted from Craig Silvey’s bestselling Australian novel and featuring a stellar cast including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and Aaron McGrath, Jasper Jones is the story of Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14 living in a small town in Western Australia. This is your chance to experience the iconic Australian…
Butterfly in a Bell Jar Written, Directed and Produced by Matthew Berto Starring Sotiris Tzelios, Adam La Rosa, Katharine Innes, Stephen Kotsanlee, Amy Bodossian, Roger Crook and Jordannah Galea River is a young girl kidnapped at the tender age of 12 and is locked away for the next 15 years in the shed of her neighbours house. Tormented mentally, physically and sexually, every…
Multi-award winning indie Pretty Good Friends will have an exclusive Sydney cinema screening at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema on Tuesday 7 February at 6:30pm. Pretty Good Friends has been dubbed Australia’s first mumblecore film. Mumblecore is the unique film subgenre that shot Lena Dunham (HBO’s Girls) to fame, and was first coined in 2005 at America’s South…
Killing Ground Written and Directed by Damien Power Produced by Joe Weatherstone and Lisa Shaunessy Starring Harriet Dyer, Aaron Pedersen, Stephen Hunter, Tiarnie Couplans, Maya Stange, Ian Meadows, Aaron Glenan and Mitzi Ruhlmann Ian and Samantha head to a national park, hoping the bush will give them space for some quiet time together. They arrive at an…
by Matthew Eeles Bianca Bradey has been cast in a pilot for the television adaptation of El Torres’ popular comic book, Nancy in Hell. The talented Australian actress, who is best known for her breakout performance as Brooke in Aussie cult-classic Wyrmwood, will play the titular character – a trash-talking, wise-cracking, whisky-swilling badass who slaughters…
Space Tourist Films have given Cinema Australia readers an exclusive first look at the teaser trailer for their upcoming short film, Silent Man. Director Joseph Russell’s Silent Man follows the journey of an escaped asylum seeker turned vigilante on a mission to find his daughter after she disappears from an immigration detention centre. Check out the…
Australia indie comedy That’s Not Me will have its world premiere in February at the 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. That’s Not Me follows Polly, an actress whose dreams of making it big are comically shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in an HBO show. Mistaken for her famous sister at…
Rough Stuff Written and Directed by Jonathan Adams Produced by Kelly Tomasich and Nicole Johnschwager Starring Gareth Rickards, Vincent Andriano, Sam Glissan, Hayley Sullivan, Katie Garfield, Jamie Kristian, Adam Horner and Ernie Dingo. Off the highways and beyond the furthest posts is a lawless land where outcasts go to escape their pasts and start anew. “Buzz” Burroughs, living on…
Ozflix, a new video-on-demand service dedicated to streaming every Australian film ever made, is set to launch at 6:00pm on Australia Day, 26th January, 2017. Acclaimed by Australia’s most influential directors, producers and actors, Ozflix will begin streaming with around 250 Australian films and three free original content shows, with more free content to be announced. “There are…
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