Flickerfest are calling for your entries

Celebrating its landmark 25th year, Flickerfest, Australia’s leading Academy® Award accredited and BAFTA-recognised Short Film Festival, and the country’s largest short film competition, is now accepting entries from Australia and around the world for our 2016 Festival.  Flickerfest will screen for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January 2016, with selected…

Interview: Brendan Cowell

“When I started doing damage to others, bringing others down and really disappointing people that I love, that’s when I kind of clued into the fact that I was living a deeply unsavoury life.” Every time I ask any filmmaker the question, the answer is almost always the same, “The advertising budget is virtually non-existent.” Surely though, for a…

The Crowdfunders: Protection

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…

David Wenham named CinéfestOZ Film Prize Jury Chair

David Wenham will attend the CinéfestOZ film festival (26-30 August) as Jury Chair for Australia’s biggest film prize, the CinéfestOZ Film Prize. The CinéfestOZ Film Prize encourages excellence in Australian filmmaking by providing a $100,000 award to an Australian feature film or feature-length documentary. David Wenham’s role as Chair is to head the five-person jury…

Trailer of the Day: The Lives We Lead

The Lives We Lead Directed by: Davo Hardy Starring: Sally Williams, Georgina Neville, Josh Wiseman and Davo Hardy Release Date: 2 August, 2015 Did you know?: Though their characters are the same age, Davo Hardy is actually 9 years younger than Sally Williams. Chronicling the turbulent lives of Pamela and Edith Keegan, two feuding sisters and the men they…

Simon Baker to film Tim Winton’s Breath in Denmark, WA

A $2.3 million investment by the State Government has secured Denmark as the location to film the movie adaptation of Tim Winton’s best-selling and award-winning novel, Breath. Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said this was an opportunity that could not be missed and the State would reap the benefits of Breath being filmed…

Filmmaker Focus: Lliam Murphy

“You have to be exceptionally resilient, be prepared for many knocks to your confidence, and still get up every morning and find the joy in what you do.” Interview by Joanne Kmaid Actor, Director, Photographer, Videographer. You have achieved diverse careers that people dream of. Do you prefer one over the other? Honestly, acting has always…

The Crowdfunders: Ascendant

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…