Screen Australia will provide $1.539 million to eight exciting new projects through its Multiplatform Drama program. The program supports unorthodox projects released on a variety of platforms. “Our new slate demonstrates the fund’s twin goals of supporting exciting new teams and finding fresh ideas from established talent. Funding from Screen Australia helps deliver on the…
Ambrosia Directed by: Rhiannon Bannenberg Starring: Elias Jamieson Brown, Scott Lee, Rebecca Montalti, Debbie Neilson and Natasha Velkova Release Date: 2015 Did you know?: This is the feature film debut of director Rhiannon Bannenberg who is also the film’s cinematographer, writer composer and editor. India travels back to her childhood home to spend time with her brother,…
Thanks to Monster Pictures, Cinema Australia is giving readers the chance to win a copy of Chris Sun’s Charlie’s Farm on DVD. Starring the seven foot Australian giant Nathan Jones (soon to feature as Rictus Erectus in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road), Tara Reid (star of American Pie and Sharknado) and horror icons Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects) and Kane Hodder (Hatchet), this brutal horror masterpiece is…
Are you a creator of online video content? Do you long for your work to be recognised by industry professionals? The OVAs (Online Video Awards) are now calling for your entries. Launched in 2014, The Online Video Awards invites Australian content creators to enter their work for judging by a panel of industry professionals. All…
“We wanted to tell a story about a lifetime of regression boiling down to a key moment between two opposing personality types.” The 2014 RAW Nerve funded short film Fish is an important stepping stone for Writer/Director Alexander Wheldon and Co-creator/Producer Dan Thom. This is the first government funding they have received as key creatives…
Street Art: A PUBLIC Affair Directed by: Three Tree Productions Starring: Chris Nixon, Anya Brock, Brenton See, Idol Motions, Stormie Mills, James Giddy, Elian, Hayley Welsh, Nespoon Release Date: 2015 The documentary follows a street art festival which takes place in Perth every April, created and operated by the amazing team at FORM. This year, the event…
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…
Win a double pass to a Q&A screening with the director of Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites in Fremantle Tonight! Alvin spends his days working as a Japanese translator, carefully creating the illusion of everyday normalcy to his friends, colleagues and to those around him. But then there’s the panda toys, the good-looking girl downstairs…
Sawtell’s small seaside community, 10km south of Coffs Harbour, mourned the loss of their cherished art deco cinema when it closed its doors in December 2012, but two years later the community is buying the cinema back with the help of many generous donors, a crowdfunding campaign and David Stratton. The revival of the cinema…
Greenfield, a five-part series filmed in WA, took home two awards for best performance by an actress and best performance by an actor in WA’s most prestigious industry awards. WASA Award Winner Web Series; Greenfield was shot in the Wheat belt town of Merredin, Western Australia as a part of Screenwest’s 3 to 1 incentive,…
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