ScreenWest has announced this year’s Get Your Shorts On! program, which will delight and inspire as it showcases the talents of Western Australia’s emerging filmmakers. Screening as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, this year’s Get Your Shorts On! features short films that explore the ways we look at light, hear sound, express our grief and accept diversity. Get Your…
John Edwards, one of Australia’s most successful and prolific TV producers, will join Roadshow Films, Australia’s pre-eminent entertainment group, to form Roadshow Rough Diamond, along with his son, former ITV Studios and Endemol executive, Dan Edwards. The new production company will create original long-form television and feature film content for domestic and international audiences from July…
Dan Ewing’s film career post Home and Away is going from strength to strength. Cinema Australia can reveal the Sydney-born thespian is set to star in mysterious new Australian horror film, Beast No More. Currently embarking on a national promotional tour for his upcoming action/horror film Red Billabong, Ewing gave Cinema Australia a call to…
As a Member of Revelation Perth International Film Festival you are entitled to amazing discounts and benefits, both during the festival and throughout the year. In addition, you are supporting Rev’s efforts to provide the Perth community with a quality independent screen culture. BENEFITS INCLUDE: Festival Gold pass entitles you to access to all general screenings…
CinéfestOZ, Australia’s premier destination film festival, has announced that award-winning Australian feature film and documentary director Gillian Armstrong has accepted the role of Jury Chair for the 2016 Festival. Armstrong is one of Australia’s most successful and respected filmmakers. Her feature film directorial debut, My Brilliant Career, adapted from the breakthrough Miles Franklin novel, was a huge success both here…
Bite Club Directed by Kim Huynh Written by Kim Huynh Produced by Ben Tregea and Zia Vaughan-Johnson Starring Gabriel Stolz, David Beamish, Martin Sta Ana, Benjamin Wood, Chloe Guy, Sarah Kruger, Nick Tadic, Daniel James, Donnie Baxter, Brian Antonenko, Josh Wa and Brodie Henson What’s it about? Set in current Brisbane, Australia. A world where supernaturals have de-evolved and have become more humanized to blend in with the…
Monster Fest, Australia’s premier festival of cult, horror and the fantastic, returns for its sixth edition November 24-27, 2016 at the Lido Cinemas in Melbourne, with support from Screen Australia and Film Victoria – and they’ve just unveiled a poster to die for. Illustrated by Canadian artist Matt Ryan Tobin, the 2016 poster ties in with this…
Made in Melbourne Film Festival (MIM) and Threecatsinlimbo Productions have partnered together to create Indigenous Script to Screen, a short film initiative to give voice to the stories of indigenous people on film. This initiative will see one script taken through all levels of production to a public screening on December 9th as part of the…
Melbourne WebFest, Australia’s international web series festival, will be holding a live pitching competition for web series at this year’s festival, and is currently calling for submissions. Pitch Perfect @ MWF with ABC iview will be held on Saturday 2 July at Deakin Edge, Fed Square. Pitch Perfect will be a fast-paced, interactive competition in…
Perth filmmaking duo Rebecca Caldwell and Matt Reynolds are delving into new ground with their latest film, A Girl’s Best Friend. Written by Caldwell, it tells an oft omitted tale of friendship between two women, when the stakes are high in suburbia. The two main characters, Phoebe, played by Chloe Brown (Lurking Woods) and Sam (Caldwell), are quintessential…
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