On September 3, Sydney Film School will throw open its doors to the public with a free Open Day to encourage budding filmmakers to take the opportunity to experience the School and all it has to offer. Those interested in learning more about a career in the film industry will have the opportunity to sit…
The September 30 submission deadline for Flickerfest’s 2017 festival is nearing. Next year Flickerfest will be celebrating its 26th year of screening the best short films from Australia and around the world across our competition and special showcase programs once again on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. The festival culminates with the celebration of filmmaking craft in the prestigious…
WA filmmaker, Ben Young and his team have managed to make one minute and forty seconds of footage look truly disturbing in our first look at new Australian feature film, Hounds of Love. Hounds of Love also looks like a return to form for Stephen Curry, whose last feature film was Save Your Legs! in 2012…
Welcome to the very first Black Label episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. We’ve decided to make this episode special, and not a continuation of our previous episodes, because this one stands alone in terms of theme. We’re not discussing a new Australian film, but instead speaking with an Australian filmmaker about his incredible career.…
Red Curtain Hell Directed by Shane Anderson Written by Shane Anderson and Kieran Davey Starring Rita Artman, Christ Charteris, Sean Dennehy and Sean Edward Frazer Synopsis Set in real-time over the opening night of a troubled production of Hamlet: a cast of narcissistic actors, incompetent stage-crew and a megalomaniac director collide behind-the-scenes of the ongoing show to give the…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with director Grant Scicluna and actor Thom Green about their new Australian film, Downriver. Grant Scicluna’s acclaimed Australian drama Downriver will have its WA premiere at this month’s Australian Revelations event in Perth. Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film…
Ahead of CinefestOZ Film Festival’s impending August 24 opening night, the Festival today is delighted to announce the CinefestOZ Film Prize jury, who will decide on the winner of the Festival’s third annual, and Australia’s greatest, $100,000 Film Prize. Jury Chair and acclaimed Australian filmmaker, Gillian Armstrong will be joined on the jury by Producer Sue Taylor (The Tree, Looking for…
CinefestOZ Film Prize Finalist, Spin Out, co-directed by Tim Ferguson and Marc Gracie, is set to premiere at CinefestOZ at the Orana Cinemas in Busselton on Friday 26 August at 5.30pm. Starring Xavier Samuel, Morgan Griffin, Travis Jeffery, Melissa Bergland, Lincoln Lewis and Brooke McClymont, Spin Out is a fresh, feel-good comedy romance for the young and the young…
CinefestOZ Film Prize Finalist, Girl Asleep, directed by Rosemary Myers, is set to make its Western Australian premiere at CinefestOZ at the Orana Cinemas in Busselton on Friday 26 August at 8.15pm. Girl Asleep is a journey into the absurdities of the teenage mind. Navigating puberty in 1970s suburbia, Greta doesn’t want to grow up. Her mum is…
CinefestOZ Film Prize Finalist, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, directed by Cris Jones, is set to make its Western Australian premiere at CinefestOZ at the Orana Cinemas in Busselton on Thursday 25 August at 6.30pm. The Death and Life of Otto Bloom chronicles the life and great love of an extraordinary man who experiences time in…
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