As a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films, Cinema Australia rarely gets the opportunity to throw cash at crowdfunding projects. Trust us, if we had the money we’d be executive producers on almost every new Australian film calling for supporters through the myriad of crowdfunding platforms available on the interwebs. That’s…
SparkeFilms have released the first online teaser trailer for their feature film Red Billabong. Starring Home & Away’s Dan Ewing and Dance Academy favourite Tim Pocock, Red Billabong is an Action/Adventure film that is currently in Post Production at the Qld based The Post Lounge studios. Sophie Don, Jessica Green, Ben Chisholm, John Reynolds, Emily Joy, James Straiton…
Liam Hemsworth will return to Australia this October to celebrate the release of the new comedy-drama The Dressmaker, alongside co-stars Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving and Sarah Snook. The Australian Premiere of The Dressmaker will be held on Sunday October 18 at Village Cinemas Crown in Melbourne where the stellar cast will be joined on the red carpet by their highly-acclaimed filmmaking team,…
Cinema Australia – a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films through independent news, reviews, features and interviews – is calling for Australian filmmakers to submit their short films for its brand new Sunday Shorts program. Sunday Shorts – screened exclusively at http://www.cinemaaustralia.com.au – aims to showcase a different Australian short…
Continuing its succession of sold out screenings, Revelation Perth International Film Festival has announced its next screening title. Australian Revelations is a celebration of Australian film via monthly screenings and one of Australia’s great documentaries – Frontline – will headline the Monday 28 September event. An account of the Vietnam War as seen through the camera of Australian journalist Neil Davis, Frontline was nominated for an…
Cinema Australia readers have been given an exclusive first look at Ryan Neil Butlers new short film, An Afterlife. “An Afterlife is my first film that will showcase my abilities,” Butler says. “It’s complex, arty and nothing like I’d done before. Challenges that were presented, which would have once been met with trepidation, were met with…
Welcome to Cinema Australia’s brand new weekly feature, Sunday Shorts. You might recognise the name from our written features we’ve published in the past. We loved those features and so did you going by the amount of hits they received. We’ve decided to change things up a little by screening a new short film every…
Cinema Australia readers have been given an exclusive look behind the scenes of Paul Cox’s new film, Force of Destiny starring David Denham, Shahana Goswami, Jaqueline McKenzie and Hannah Fredericksen. The video is titled ‘The Oldest Crew in the World’ and is quite a humorous look behind the scenes with Paul Cox and his…
Sci-fi thriller The Subjects is the debut feature film from Melbourne director and writer Robert Mond. Produced with Lioncat Studios and Instinct Entertainment (Charlie & Boots, Strange Bedfellows), the premise follows eight strangers that go into a locked room for clinical trials on a new drug that gives them superpowers. The conditions of the trial…
While on a camping trip, Thomas’ only daughter, Lara, is killed by a logging truck in a hit-and-run accident for which the driver, Luke, serves a prison sentence. Stricken with grief, Thomas sheds his urban life and his identity, and moves to the remote town where Lara was killed. There he takes on a new…
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