In a clean sweep for South Australian filmmakers, the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced the winners of the AFF 2024 Audience Awards. Lesbian Space Princess has taken out the Feature Fiction Audience Award. Songs Inside has won the Feature Documentary Audience Award and the winner of the Short Film Audience Award is Finding Jia.…
Thanks to our friends at Luna Palace Cinemas in Perth, we’re giving away five double passes to a special preview screening of new surf documentary, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday on Saturday 16 November. This one is open to Perth residents only, folks. This cinematic poem tells the story of a wild community who…
Forget every shark film you’ve seen before. Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner and producer Blake Northfield are set to make bloody waves with Beast of War, their bold new take on the much-adored horror sub genre. By Matthew Eeles On the day Cinema Australia spoke with Kiah Roache-Turner, the filmmaker was deep into editing the last two…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by Luke J.S. and Luke Wijayasinha-Gray to discuss Your Love is Mine, a moody and atmospheric relationship drama with a touch of horror. Your Love is Mine explores the depths of love and desperation and tells the story of a…
Far from your average mother-daughter flick, Audrey is a twisted, razor sharp comedy both gloriously absurd and strangely relatable. And it’s in cinemas November 7. Forgotten soap star and self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie Lipsick (Jackie van Beek; The Breaker Upperers, The Office Australia) is trapped in a life of unfulfilled dreams and suburban monotony. However,…
Jon Bell, an Australian filmmaker and storyteller from the Bundjalung/Wiradjuri nations, is no stranger to weaving cultural heritage into his narratives. In his chilling new horror, The Moogai, Bell explores the struggles of Sarah and Fergus, a young Aboriginal couple whose lives take a dark turn after the birth of their second child. When Sarah…
Following a full house standing ovation at the Darwin International Film Festival and four successive sold out preview events in the film’s birth place, Alice Springs, the award winning and critically acclaimed Under Streetlights is on a course to spread like wildfire in the lead up to its national release on December 12. Recently winning…
Radioactive has unleash their second trailer for The Red, an outrageous comedy horror set in the Australian outback, starring what promises to be Australia’s next iconic personality: Rippy—the giant Zombie Kangaroo. Rippy is your average bloke by day, and a terrifying Zombie Kangaroo by night. In The Red, this unforgettable character is hell bent on…
Transmission Films have today released the first look image for Spit, the highly anticipated Australian comedy from the award-winning team behind Gettin’ Square, and announced that the film will be released in cinemas on March 6, 2025. Written by Gold Coast-based writer and lawyer and writer of Gettin’ Square Christopher Nyst, Spit sees the return of beloved character Johnny (Spit) Spitieri, played by David Wenham.…
Monster Pictures Distribution has announced that production has wrapped on the Australian possession horror, Diabolic, written by Mike Harding and Daniel J. Phillips (Awoken), and directed by Phillips. As the ANZ distributors, Monster Pictures Distribution is excited to bring Diabolic to cinemas next year, where horror fans can experience it where it belongs, on the big screen. Grant Hardie from…
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