“There is great freedom from just playing it honestly rather than trying too hard to act.” Interview by Joanne Kmaid You began acting at 16. Did that impact your teenage years? Yes. Watching Jaws at the age of 8 and visiting Universal Studios inspired me to want to work in movies. I was in Year…
The Hunters Club Directed by: Kit McDee Written by: Dirk Foulger and Kit McDee Produced by: Dirk Foulger and Kit McDee Starring: Ty Hungerford, Nicholas Gunn, Brad McMurray, Lauren Jackson and Ashlee Lollback Mike, an easygoing skater and martial artist, is thrust into a hidden world of murder and assassination when he runs into his best friend Ed, 10…
We’re giving Cinema Australia readers the chance to win an in-season double pass to see Simon Stones acclaimed new Australian film, The Daughter. In the last days of a dying logging town Christian (Paul Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry’s (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to the much younger Anna (Anna Torv). While…
“I left the screening irrevocably changed. I got outside and asked my friend why nobody had made a film like it in Melbourne, where characters just talk and act like normal people. So a few years later I decided to do just that.” Play It Safe, the debut feature film from award-winning Melbourne filmmaker Chris Pahlow, is set to…
Tickets are now available for new Australian film Crushed. Most of the event-style screenings with feature a Q&A with the writer, director and producer Megan Riakos as well as other cast and crew members including Sarah Bishop at Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne & Townsville, Les Hill at Sydney, Remy Brand at Mudgee and Robert Preston at Sydney…
Pawno Directed by: Paul Ireland Written by: Damian Hill Produced by: Toothless Pictures Starring: John Brumpton, Maeve Dermody, Malcolm Kennard, Mark Coles Smith, Damian Hill, Tony Rickards, Kerry Armstrong, Naomi Rukavina, Daniel Frederiksen, Ngoc Phan, Brad McMurray, John Orcsik, Mark Silveira and Jesse Velik Pawno is a character driven film about change, hope and identity. Within a day,…
Hunt for Hiroshi In this city, Hiroshi is king, the head of a criminal organisation with the authorities in his pocket- but the man who has it all is now being hunted. After a series of attacks on his drug supply chains, he sends an elite tactical team led by captain Dale Hammond to capture the…
Jag Pannu Productions, in association with VCR Media, have officially signed with sales agent, NewGold Entertainment, to represent their feature film Broken Contract for worldwide distribution. Broken Contract is a story about Max, a down on his luck strip club owner, who has his life and livelihood threatened by local gangsters, so he turns to his wife’s connections…
From 10 March, Arc cinema will be screening the exclusive Canberra season of Stephen Page’s debut feature Spear, including a special Q&A with the director on Saturday, 12 March 2016. A unique cinematic experience told through movement and dance with little dialogue, Spear draws on Page’s formidable 25 years spent as Artistic Director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, where he has…
Australia’s newest film fest, the Noosa International Film Festival, is now open for short film submissions. Submissions are being accepted exclusively via FilmFreeway.com with official selections being screened publicly at various cinema venues. Submission guidelines are available at http://www.niff.com.au. NIFF is staging three short film competitions with an early bird deadline of 3 May, regular deadline 7…
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