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…
France has Cannes, New York has Tribeca, Sydney has Tropfest and now it’s Central Queensland’s turn with the recent announcement of The Capricorn Film Festival. This exciting new film festival, proudly representing the Central Queensland region, will celebrate its inaugural year on September 19 when it launches at the Gladstone Marina, where it hopes to showcase filmmaking…
Audiences who weren’t lucky enough to attend this year’s Sydney Film Festival have been treated to the first trailer for Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man today. Armfield’s first film since 2006’s Candy, Holding the Man looks like it’s going to be a very polished interpretation of Timothy Conigrave’s best-selling memoir. If you’ve seen the film,…
“Rather than do a run-of-the-mill zombie short, we wanted do something that was out of the ordinary.” Written by Marisa Brown (Producer) Check out Waterborne below! When Ryan Coonan and Richard Barcaracchio, the writers behind Waterborne, first pitched the idea of a zombie kangaroo to me in late 2012, I must admit that I met their…
“Getting money to make your film is wonderful, but having people say ‘we believe in you, go do your thing’ is absolutely invaluable.” – Miley Tunnecliffe Written by Miley Tunnecliffe (Writer, Producer): Love in a Disabled Toilet was intended to be a fun, quick film to shoot with a few friends during some down time.…
Welcome to Cinema Australia’s brand new feature, Trailer of the Day. Each day we’ll be aiming to bring you a trailer of an Australian film – new or old. We’ll be including a few fun facts about the film featured as well as screening information and release dates for new films. We also hope to include a quote or…
Welcome to Cinema Australia’s brand new feature, Trailer of the Day. Each day we’ll be aiming to bring you a trailer of an Australian film – new or old. We’ll be including a few fun facts about the film featured as well as screening information and release dates for new films. We also hope to include…
Greenfield, an Australian-Danish web series directed by Julius Telmer, will have it’s world premiere at Luna Leederville on June 25. Greenfield is a ScreenWest 3-to-1 cinematic soap-drama web-series set in rural Australia. Filmed in Merredin, WA over the course of a month, the cast and crew worked and lived out of the old Cummins Theatre with the…
Phillip Crawford’s Rites of Passage, a once in a generation film about young people by young people, continues to go from strength to strength with he film having it’s television premiere on Sunday, June 28. Made with a message of hope, Rites of Passage is a raw, uncensored and honest film inspired by the real life experiences of…
“I once filmed a couple who lost a child to cancer and they were so raw and fragile and broken. It’s that depth of truth that becomes the measuring point. It tells me if I’m getting this level of truth from my performances.” – Kim Farrant. Interview by Matthew Eeles: Strangerland is your first feature…
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