New Australian documentary The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone will release nationally on Netflix

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The new Australian documentary The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone will celebrate festival screenings at Sydney Film Festival and Revelation Perth International Film Festival ahead of a national Netflix release in September with an accompanying impact campaign by Transcend Australia. The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone is…

See the new trailer for Daniel Johns’ What If The Future Never Happened?

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. From the mind of Daniel Johns, the most-decorated Australian musician of his generation, What If The Future Never Happened? is a genre-bending, semi-autobiographical featurette that puts reality and fantasy in a hyper-speed spin cycle. It’s 1994, mere months before a teenage…

Q&A tour set for Genna Chanelle Hayes’ new refugee drama, Akoni.

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Genna Chanelle Hayes is set to embark on a Q&A tour to promote her new refugee drama, Akoni. Akoni is the story of a homeless refugee who struggles to integrate into Australian society after escaping conflict in his homeland, until he meets…

CinefestOZ Broome announced with first festival set for November

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Film festival powerhouse CinefestOZ has announced its newest annual event, CinefestOZ Broome. The announcement came after CinefestOZ and Broome-based Indigenous media organisation Goolarri Media were named joint recipients of one of the 2022 Arts Impact WA grants for $100,000. The grant backs impactful…

Cinema Australia Podcast #80 | Tiriki Onus & Alec Morgan

Cinema Australia Original Content: Tiriki Onus and Alec Morgan join the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their new documentary, Ablaze. Ablaze tells the story of the first Aboriginal filmmaker William ‘Bill’ Onus, a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his peopleʼs culture in the 1940s and ignited…

5 minutes with Jackson Tozer

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The St Kilda Film Festival kicks off this Friday night, with Riley Sugars’ hilarious comedy short, Hatchback, featuring in the prestigious opening night lineup. A few weeks ago Cinema Australia caught up with Hatchback director Riley Sugars,…

Lily Sullivan sci-fi Monolith now shooting in Adelaide

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Filming is now underway in Adelaide on Monolith, the first feature film to go into production as part of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) and Adelaide Film Festival’s (AFF) Film Lab: New Voices initiative. Now shooting in the Adelaide Hills,…

Billy Howle, Phoebe Tonkin and Tom Bateman lead the cast of Kid Snow – shooting in Kalgoorlie and Perth

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. UK actors Billy Howle and Tom Bateman have touched down in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia to play Irish brothers in feature film Kid Snow, with principal photography commencing today, thanks to major production investment from Screen Australia in association…