Aarushi Chowdhury’s fun but unsettling short film Clown is set to round out its festival run at the upcoming Byron Bay Film Festival and Canberra Short Film Festival following successful screenings at prestigious film festivals like MIFF, SXSW Sydney, Heart of Gold Film Festival and Australian Women’s Film Festival where Aarushi won the One to…
by Matthew Eeles Australian actor and producer Zac Garred has some exciting projects ahead. Known for his roles in the Occupation film series, US medical drama General Hospital, and starring alongside Sam Neill in Bring Him To Me, Garred is now gearing up for two new films. First up is Site Unseen, a black comedy…
Before Dawn, the epic World War I feature film produced and filmed in Western Australia, has launched on Netflix, following a remarkable international run in cinemas and on streaming platforms. The film has received widespread critical acclaim, with European critics awarding it 4.5 and 5 stars, and has earned prestigious nominations and awards across the…
The Exorcist meets Rosemary’s Baby in Australia’s release of Salt Along the Tongue, an Italian supernatural horror film set to have its World Premiere at SXSW Sydney on Friday 18 October 2024. The film is currently sold out with anticipation for more screening sessions to be announced. A love letter to mothers, this all-female cast thriller…
Far from your average mother-daughter flick, Audrey is a twisted, razorsharp comedy both gloriously absurd and strangely relatable. Following its acclaimed US debut at Austin’s prestigious SXSW festival, where it impressed audiences with its acerbic humour and high-stakes deception, the feature is set for a nationwide release on November 7. With New Zealand’s funniest export…
Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story is not just a tennis story. It’s the story of Jelena Dokic’s survival, of her overcoming extraordinary odds, and of her ultimate triumph in the face of poverty, bullying and extreme brutality. It’s about how she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court as she ascended…
Camera d’Or award-winning director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, The New Boy) has signed on to direct First Warrior, an epic feature film about Australian Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy. A Bidjigal man of the Sydney tribes, Pemulwuy led a 12-year resistance against British settlers moving into his people’s traditional lands as Australia was colonised in…
Principal photography has wrapped on Enzo Tedeschi’s multiverse time travel film Resonance. Starring Barbara Bingham (Friday the 13th Part 8) and filmed in Sydney in Australia Resonance explores what happens when an archaeologist discovers her family’s century-old secret to manipulate time, and how she must confront her estranged past and an interdimensional threat to save…
Prima Lux Films, in collaboration with La Rosa Productions, is excited to announce that their latest thriller Freelance has been acquired by Radioactive Pictures for distribution across Australia and New Zealand. Directed by acclaimed Melbourne-based filmmaker John Balazs, Freelance offers a nightmarish journey into desperation, moral compromise, and terror, drawing comparisons to Joel Schumacher’s 8MM…
Lunar Pictures announced today that principal photography has commenced in Sydney, Australia on psychological creature thriller The Room Below from AACTA Award-nominated writer and director Kurt Martin (Moon Rock for Monday). Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings, Evil Dead Rise), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Dracula), Bobby Gilchrist (Shapeless, The Invisible Raptor) and Gilbert Bradman (Transfusion, The Twelve)…
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