Far from your average mother-daughter flick, Audrey is a twisted, razorsharp comedy both gloriously absurd and strangely relatable. Following its acclaimed US debut at Austin’s prestigious SXSW festival, where it impressed audiences with its acerbic humour and high-stakes deception, the feature is set for a nationwide release on November 7. With New Zealand’s funniest export…
Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story is not just a tennis story. It’s the story of Jelena Dokic’s survival, of her overcoming extraordinary odds, and of her ultimate triumph in the face of poverty, bullying and extreme brutality. It’s about how she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court as she ascended…
Camera d’Or award-winning director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, The New Boy) has signed on to direct First Warrior, an epic feature film about Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands as Australia was colonised in…
Principal photography has wrapped on Enzo Tedeschi’s multiverse time travel film Resonance. Starring Barbara Bingham (Friday the 13th Part 8) and filmed in Sydney in Australia Resonance explores what happens when an archaeologist discovers her family’s century-old secret to manipulate time, and how she must confront her estranged past and an interdimensional threat to save…
Prima Lux Films, in collaboration with La Rosa Productions, is excited to announce that their latest thriller Freelance has been acquired by Radioactive Pictures for distribution across Australia and New Zealand. Directed by acclaimed Melbourne-based filmmaker John Balazs, Freelance offers a nightmarish journey into desperation, moral compromise, and terror, drawing comparisons to Joel Schumacher’s 8MM…
Lunar Pictures announced today that principal photography has commenced in Sydney, Australia on psychological creature thriller The Room Below from AACTA Award-nominated writer and director Kurt Martin (Moon Rock for Monday). Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings, Evil Dead Rise), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Dracula), Bobby Gilchrist (Shapeless, The Invisible Raptor) and Gilbert Bradman (Transfusion, The Twelve)…
From Ros Horin, the director of acclaimed documentaries The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe and Rosemary’s Way, comes Welcome to Yiddishland, a place with no borders where progressive artists create provocative new works in an ancient endangered language that speaks to our times. Welcome to Yiddishland will screen at the Jewish International Film Festival in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Canberra,…
Maslow Entertainment today launched the trailer for the highly anticipated Australian film The Correspondent, starring Richard Roxburgh. Based on the incredible true story of Australian war correspondent Peter Greste’s arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 2013, the film will be released in Australian cinemas on 26th December 2024. The Correspondent is a gripping biographical thriller about the relentless defence…
Award-winning critic Andrew F. Peirce invites you on an unforgettable journey through the vibrant landscape of contemporary Australian cinema. From heart-pounding horror to intimate documentaries, sweeping historical dramas to side-splitting comedies, discover over fifty films that capture the resilient creative force of Australian filmmakers in the early 2020s. Through in-depth interviews with over seventy Australian…
The trailer for the surf documentary You Should Have Been Here Yesterday was launched today, ahead of the film’s release in Australian cinemas on November 21, 2024. Umbrella Entertainment is also delighted to announce that the film’s writer and director Jolyon Hoff will take part in an extensive Q&A tour ahead of the cinema release. Following sold-out screenings…
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