Queer Screen’s 2016 Mardi Gras Film Festival kicks off in a few weeks and it’s promising to be bigger and better than ever before with more venues, screenings, events and international guests. While the lineup of international movies is more than impressive and enough to whet the appetite of all film lovers, we’ve compiled a guide to all…
Written by James Francis Khetie One of the last Australian films shot on super 35 mm film, The Telegram Man was four years in the making from securing the film rights to raising the finance to gaining the interest of the film’s three screen icons. The film did not receive any form of government funding. It…
Herbert Pinter is an Australian carpenter-turned-production designer who has worked on film including Storm Boy, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Cloudstreet and Jasper Jones. Storm Boy will be screening on Monday, 18 January as part of Australian Revelations at The Backlot Perth. Featured Image: Herbert Pinter with Cloudstreet producer Brenda Pam. (Source: http://www.herbertpinter.com)
StudioCanal has announced that Abe Forsythe’s second feature film, Down Under, will hit Australian cinemas August 4, 2016. A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, Down Under is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide. Sincere, though misguided, intent gives way to farcical ineptitude as this hilarious…
Thanks to Madman Entertainment we have a Sucker prize pack to giveaway which includes a DVD copy of the film plus a copy of Tales from Earthsea, Arrietty and From Up on Poppy Hill. When 18-year-old Lawrence is caught cheating on his final year math exam, he fails to get into medical school and is banished to…
Skin Deep Directed by: John Leahy Written by: Monica Zanetti Starring: Zara Zoe, Monica Zanetti, Elizabeth Blackmore, Jeanie Drynan and Billie Rose Prichard Leah and Caitlin couldn’t be more different; one an up-tight-girl-next-door trying to come to terms with being diagnosed with terminal melanoma, the other, an unpredictable Newtown local. Their chance meeting quickly spirals…
Community Cinemas, The Backlot Films and Matchbox Pictures have agreed that all the proceeds from the ticket sales for two screenings of the film Nowhere Boys – The Book of Shadows will be donated to the Lord Mayor’s Distress Relief Fund for recently announced Waroona and District Fires Appeal. The two screenings will be held on: Friday…
“Our success is united! We strive to be better everyday and we egg each other on to help our production companies grow.” Interview by Joanne Kmaid You have a new film coming out, Choice. Does the love story reflect your personal relationship? So funny, we were literally editing Choice when these questions came through! In some…
We’ve got copies of Oddball to giveaway! Entry details below. Off the coast from the small Australian town of Warrnambool lies Middle Island, a sanctuary once home to thousands of the world’s smallest penguins. But since foxes learned to cross the shallow channel to the island, penguin numbers have plunged. And if they fall below…
For the nearly two million Australian’s traveling on trains everyday, it’s a very common occurrence: a delay. But what might surprise commuters is nearly every day, somewhere in Australia, the delay is caused by a rail fatality. There are far reaching consequences not only for the casualty and their families but also for a more…
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