A new web series has been created by Iranian and Iraqi Australian refugee artists Shahin Shafaei and Osamah Sami and Australian actor and writer Rain Fuller. The comedy investigates what happens when an outspoken blonde attempts to live with two erratic Muslim refugees. Legendary news anchor George Donikian covers a breaking news story: radio host Zoe Hunter has made some blunt challenges to…
Debut filmmaker Alan Hicks was yesterday awarded the prestigious David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship at a private reception and screening. The Fellowship is intended to reward creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema. Announcing the Fellowship on behalf of the selection committee Bob Connolly said, “ The Williams Fellowship is all about…
Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival last night awarded Best Short Film to Sotiris Dounoukos’ 19-minute drama A Single Body, who took home a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of the City of Port Phillip and qualifies for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film category. Also now eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Documentary Shorts category, The…
Thanks to Luna Cinemas Leederville, Cinema Australia is giving away 5 double pass to the Strangeland Q&A on Monday June 8 at 6.30pm Luna Cinemas Leederville. Sydney Film Festival and Transmission Films announce “Sydney Film Festival Presents”, Strangerland, a new initiative to promote quality cinema across Australia. Join Luna Leederville for a special preview Q&A screening with award…
“We were on an incredibly tight deadline, our location for the film’s opening scene was almost wrecked by a freak thunder/hail storm and Daniel Hill broke one of his ribs.” Growing Out: Written by Andrew Walsh Matt and Dan have been close friends since they were 5 years old: they attended the same school, played…
After the recent success of the pitch trailer for Long Shadows, including the successful crowd-funding campaign exceeding it’s target of 20k, and three US film festival awards, producers Linda Millar, Ashley Pardey, Jessica Magro and Darrell Plumridge are excited to commence pre-production of the feature film with shooting scheduled to commence soon. Directed by Darwin…
The St Kilda Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2015 SoundKILDA competition with Samuel Lewis taking out the top prize of Best Music Video for his directorial debut on Elliot the Bull’s Colourblind, a stop-motion animation featuring a tale of two geometric wooden characters. This year’s SoundKILDA competition showcased Australia’s top creative collaborations with eighteen clips from local and international musicians created…
Australian Revelations is a celebration of Australian film through a year-round, ongoing series of screenings and Perth produced Last Train To Freo will headline the next event on Tuesday 30 June. Last Train To Freo is set entirely inside a Perth train carriage and told in real time. The debut feature film for local Director, Jeremy Sims, it was written…
The Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative is a rare opportunity for established Indigenous filmmakers with a production-ready project to make a feature length documentary that will premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival. We’re partnering with the Adelaide Film Festival, production house KOJO and the National Film and Sound Archive for this initiative, which will see the successful applicant…
CinemaPlus and Illumination Films have launched the trailer and poster for Paul Cox’s new film, Force of Destiny, with the announcement of the film’s official Australian Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August. David Denham starts as Robert, a renowned sculpture diagnosed with cancer of the liver. While reeling from this news he meets…
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