Melbourne International Film Festival is thrilled to announce that the MIFF Premiere Fund supported film, Kill Me Three Times, directed by Kriv Stenders, will screen as part of this year’s Centrepiece Gala event. Following the mammoth success of Red Dog (MIFF 2011), Stenders’ new film pivots around a charismatic hit-man (Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg), who acts…
A new trailer for Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country was released yesterday via The Sydney Morning Herald. The new trailer has a few new clips but still has the same incredibly slow pace of the first trailer released last year. Charlie’s Country will be released mid July this year. You can watch the trailer here.
It’s official! Cinema Australia is thrilled to let readers know the first Australian film announced to screen during the Revelation Perth International Film Festival is Jason Sweeney’s The Dead Speak Back. Nominated for Best Feature at the South Australian Screen Awards recently, The Dead Speak Back will feature alongside other locally produced films – announced here soon…
Ahead of it’s screening at the Sydney Film Festival, Triptych Pictures has released a new website and teaser trailer for their new mystery film, Touch starring Cinema Australia favourite Matt Day. You can check out the website here. Love Knows No Boundaries Touch is a mystery about Dawn, a woman on the run with her young…
Welcome to the 6th edition of Cinema Australia’s Sunday Shorts feature. This weekend our profile focuses on Tropfest finalist Off The Meter staring Neighbours’ Alan Fletcher. You can watch the short below. “Since I was also directing, I had no one saying I needed to cut it down to size, and I kept telling myself…
Toronto based scribe Calum Marsh has written an interesting article for Playboy about Australia’s current crop of quality horror films. Mostly in response to Wolf Creek 2’s release in the States, the article is well worth the read. In the mid-1970s, Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett wrote a screenplay called Star Beast, a horror film about the crew…
“I love my country. I love being here and I’d love to make more films here.” You graduated from NIDA as an actor and have credits dating back to the later years of A Country Practice. You didn’t direct your first film until 2005, around about the same time you stopped acting. What made you…
Lost Art’s latest feature had its world premiere 24th November 2013 at the Nova Cinema for Melbournes best cult film festival, Monsterfest. Soon to be playing at festivals around the world. Stay tuned as more details come to hand… Synopsis: Warren is a lonely ice-cream van driver. Selling ice-cream in Melbourne’s roughest neighbourhood isn’t an…
Transmission have released a first look at Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes in a scene from the highly anticipated Strangerland. Looks intense. Hopefully we will be seeing more soon. FIRST LOOK: Nicole Kidman and co-star Joseph Fiennes in Kim Farrant's upcoming STRANGERLAND http://t.co/EZ1mItwTiG— (@transmission) May 13, 2014
“We originally thought it would be a film simply about an interesting way of cooking food, but it grew into a look at life, philosophy, religion, and the Texan way.” Written by director Matthew Salleh Central Texas Barbecue is the third short documentary we have made in the last 12 months. The first, Pablo’s Villa (Watch…
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