The State Government of Victoria has promised a $3.8 million four-year renewal of the Melbourne International Film Festival MIFF Premiere Fund, which provides strategic minority co-financing to new Australian films that then go on to premiere at MIFF. “The MIFF Premiere Fund’s continuation is important for MIFF, audiences, local filmmakers, and the State’s creative economy,” said…
West Coast Visions is a development initiative offering $750,000 of production investment funding for up to one feature film project per year. It is one of ScreenWest’s largest funds. The program is designed to uncover, inspire and develop local projects and skills. Recent West Coast Visions films have had great success on the national and international festival…
Eponine Films is pleased to confirm that Universal Pictures has secured the international distribution rights for its Australian independent feature film debut Love is Now, ahead of the film’s nationwide Australian release through HOYTS cinemas from 4th December 2014. Starring Australian actors Eamon Farren (Chained, Red Dog, Carlotta), Claire Van Der Boom (The Square, Red Hill, ‘Hawaii Five-0’)…
The team behind new Australian film The Legend of Ben Hall are calling on supporters to help raise $75,000 to start shooting new scenes required for the feature length version of their film. Producers of the film hope that The Legend of Ben Hall will be the first in a “proposed trilogy of bushranger feature films, that will…
That Sugar Film follows Damon Gameau as he explores the impact of sugar on his own body after having been mostly sugar free for three years. That Sugar Film is a fun an engaging look at how (and how much) Australians consume sugar, how it impacts us and the surprising amount of it found in perceived healthy…
Cult classic Fat Pizza collides with the Logie winning comedy Housos in Fat Pizza Vs Housos The Movie. Paul Fenech will make special cinema appearances in Perth on 26 & 27 November to promote his new movie Fat Pizza Vs Housos in cinemas everywhere 27 November Fat Pizza Vs Housos (MA 15+) is Paul Fenech’s riotous follow-up to Housos vs.…
Silversun Pictures and ScreenACT have produced an exciting and innovative anthology feature film, Locks of Love. The film brings together 11 different stories and a whole new generation of talented filmmakers to tell the tales behind the padlocks of love attached to a gate in a Canberra park. Come and celebrate our filmmaker’s achievements by attending…
Ghost Man(鬼佬) by Matthew Victor Pastor: A human statue seated in a busy Hong Kong street as the modern world passes. An unconfident accountant joins a short course teaching him the skills to seduce women. Two men discuss their frustrations with relationships. These lives will collide and blood will be shed. What it means to…
It’s 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, ‘the Mule’ makes a desperate choice; to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence…literally. And by doing so becomes a ‘human time bomb’; dragging cops, criminals and concerned family into his impossible escapade.…
As damaging as it might be to its chances of a fair distribution at home, Charlie’s Farm is the R rated film Australia has been dying to see. Its ruthless, no-holds-barred savagery makes it one of the greatest Australian slasher films of all time, and while it may not have the brains of some contemporary…
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