Entries now open for My Queer Career

Calling all Australian filmmakers who are queer or have made a queer film. The 2015 My Queer Career competition is now open for entries! My Queer Career is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for queer short filmmakers and is only open to locally produced work. The major prize includes $3,000 cash. Other prizes include…

Rusty’s The Water Diviner trailer & poster debuts

Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner made an incredible debuted this morning on 7’s Sunrise program. Starring Russell Crowe (Romper Stomper) and Olga Kurylenko, The Water Diviner is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Australian farmer Connor (Crowe) travels to Istanbul to discover the fate of his…

Interview: Hugh Sullivan

It’s a crime The Infinite Man wasn’t nominated for the $100,000 prize at this year’s CinéfestOZ film festival. Ironically, it was the most talk about film over the five day event and, with all due respect, was a far better film in every regard than Robert Connolly’s Paper Planes which took home the loot. When I asked…

AFTRS Introduction to Screenwriting at Adelaide Studios

Ready to get serious about writing that screenplay?  Get all the tools you need in this two day course presented by AFTRS! Led by writer (and actor) Steve Vidler, you’ll be given hands-on methods for building the foundations of character, story and structure used by professional screenwriters, illustrated with key moments from a wide range…

EXCLUSIVE! Your first look at Heath Davis’ Broke

Cinema Australia readers have been given an exclusive first-look at Heath Davis’ new film Broke starring Steve Le Marquand, Claire Van Der Boom and Brendan Cowell. You can get your first look at the film below. An ageing rail worker, Cec, finds his former footy hero turned washed up gambling addict, Ben “BK” Kelly passed out one evening and decides to take…