Find Your Voice is a celebration of family and culture through one young man’s spiritual odyssey. The film tells the story of a young Maori musician who, after a divine windfall, returns to his native New Zealand in a quest to explore his musical roots. Written by Chris Herd (director): The Story of Find Your…
Filmmakers will be given the opportunity to submit their films to one of Australia’s most exciting film festivals beginning tomorrow. The Adelaide Film Festival will run October 15-25 and describes itself as being ‘Australia’s premier film event launching new films, art and interactive projects to national and international audiences’ and is in Variety magazine’s list of “50…
Hosts Cate Blanchett and Deborah Mailman were today joined on stage by a star-studded line up of presenters including Geoffrey Rush (AACTA president), Lachy Hulme, Stephen Curry and cricketer Brett Lee to honour Australia’s best achievements in Australian film and television at the 4th AACTA Awards Ceremony, held at The Star Event Centre in Sydney.…
That Sugar Film hits the road throughout March for a special series of Q&A screenings with director and star of the film Damon Gameau, plus a raft of special guest hosts. Perth audiences can catch Damon at one of the following screenings on Monday 23 March: Luna on SX – book tickets at www.lunapalace.com.au Event Cinemas Innaloo – book tickets…
The 4th AACTA Awards Luncheon presented by Deluxe was today held at The Star Event Centre Sydney, celebrating screen craft excellence, and marking the first winners for the 4th AACTA Awards season. Twenty two awards were presented, recognising the talent and innovation of practitioners working across television, documentary, short fiction film, short animation and feature…
A trailer dropped over the weekend for Ariel Kleiman’s psychological thriller, Partisan, and it looks unreal. Partisan is the first feature film for writer/director Kleiman after a couple of successful short films, Young Love and Deeper than Yesterday. Partisan, follows 11-year-old Alexander – playful, curious and naïve, like any other kid. He is also a…
A trailer for Craig Eccle’s The Loop started doing the rounds early last week. The film was shot mainly at Whiteman Park near Perth and is expected to screen sometime this year on the festival circuit. The Loop tells the story of four friends who embark on an adventure with plans for a fun day out but quickly find themselves…
Spread the joy with The Best of Joy House Film Festival! After the success of the Joy House Film Festival held in Sydney in 2014, this light, uplifting short film festival will be coming to Perth on a ‘best of’ tour. This short film festival will be part of the popular Summerset Arts Festival which runs…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Article by Tristan Roache-Turner The Wyrmwood film evolved around late 2010. My brother Kiah was working for Aussie Bum doing promotional videos and I was an electrician/project manager at Ausgrid. We’d make a few commercial productions, and do…
On his first visit to the local Laundromat, a man has a fateful chance encounter with his wife, five years after she walked out. A powerful two hander about guilt, regrets and maybe even a chance at forgiveness. Absolution: by Dean Butler (director). Instead of giving a general overview of Absolution’s production I thought…
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