Former Buddhist monk-turned-filmmaker, Greg Sneddon will present his powerful debut feature film, “Arrows of the Thunder Dragon” at special event screenings in cinemas around Australia from April 29 through to May 7. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the Melbourne-based director, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the score. He will be joined…
Film distributor ScreenLaunch today announced Australian thriller, Touch, a tension-building mystery, will open in Australian cinemas from Thursday 21 May 2015. Touch follows the intriguing journey of a mother, Dawn, (played by Leeanna Walsman from Carl Barron’s Manny Lewis) and her daughter Steph (played by newcomer Onor Nottle), who are on the run from a mysterious man,…
In what’s been an exciting year for original Australian web content, Boomgate Films is proud to announce that its web series Altruman has been invited to a string of web festivals and begun scoring international awards. Last Wednesday night Ben McEwing, who plays the title character, picked up the award for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy…
Last week The Backlot Perth hosted The Backlot Post team as they launched their one-stop-shop post production service model to local WA film makers, while also announcing that edit guru Ric Curtin will be part of the local post delivery team. The Backlot founders, Tony Ianiro and Mark D’Angelo (The Backlot Films) have formed an alliance with…
Indie filmmakers love the retro-charm of shooting on celluloid and Revel-8 loves helping you do it. We make the Super 8 journey easy by providing a film cartridge as part of the registration fee and providing advice and support… we’re there to help and then join the party as Super 8 film celebrates its 50th anniversary at Revelation Perth…
David Bradbury’s anticipated Vietnam war documentary The Crater will have a limited cinema screening during April as well as a national screening on ABC. Find all the dates and ticketing information below. A very personal story of one man’s tour of duty in Vietnam and his obsessive search to locate 42 former enemy soldiers he saw Killed in…
The Sydney Film Festival teased its 2015 program by announcing a selection of titles this morning. Australian film buffs will be pleased to know that Kim Farrant’s Stangerland is a part of that lineup. Cinema Australia was asked to remove a leaked trailer of the film late last year so hopefully this news will reveal an authentic one…
The latest Mad Max: Fury Road trailer dropped today and to say the Cinema Australia office is excited is an understatement. It looks unreal and May can’t come quick enough. Check it out below. From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, comes Mad Max: Fury…
The first trailer for Blinky Bill The Movie dropped this morning and it looked great! You can check it out below. Convinced that his long lost father is still alive, the adventurous koala Blinky Bill, as played by Ryan Kwanten (Mystery Road) embarks on a journey through the Australian outback to bring him home. Blinky…
Following on from a successful session in March, Revelation Perth International Film Festival proudly announces its next screening title Australian Revelations is a celebration of Australian film through a year-round, ongoing series of screenings and the celebrated Australian film Newsfront will headline the next event on Tuesday 28 April. Released in 1978, this Phillip Noyce directed classic tells the story…
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