CinefestOZ is delighted to welcome Bruce Beresford to the 2014 film festival as Jury Chair for Australia’s richest film prize, the CinéfestOZ Film Prize. The CinéfestOZ Film Prize encourages excellence in Australian filmmaking by providing a $100,000 award to an Australian feature film or feature-length documentary. Bruce Beresford’s role as Chair is to head the five-person…
Thursday 3rd July HERITAGE COLLECTION KIDS OPAL THEATRE Kids films daily at 10am, 12noon & 2pm SARAH RILEY THEATRE Waltzing Matilda Centre 12noon The Shiralee (1981) mini series 180 mins 4pm The Eye of the Rider (Duncan Menge) Motorcycle Adventure Documentary WALTZING MATILDA CENTRE 5-7pm ABC “Conversations” recorded live with Richard Fidler ROYAL OPEN AIR THEATRE 7pm…
“I’ve done a lot of research for this role which is always a big part of my work really. You could get monkeys to learn lines.” You’re in Melbourne at the moment. Keeping warm? Yeah, winter in Melbourne. I’m rehearsing a play and it’s been a full on week. How’s everything going with Glengarry Glen…
When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival…
Written by Neil Triffett (director): I’ve been fascinated by Emos for a while. There’s something admirable about people who accept life is full of misery while the rest of us are pretending we are happy and emotionally stable. To place an Emo – a sarcastic, despondent Emo youth – inside a light-hearted musical comedy creates instant…
Rev is very much a work in progress. Since 1990, the event has developed from a range of alternative and independent screen culture activities and experiments to what is regarded as one of Australia’s most unique annual screen activities. Taking place in cinemas, bars and clubs around the country this strange brew embraced live music,…
Once again, the City of Vincent, in association with FTI is commissioning a short series of films . The project aims to represent the City of Vincent, its residents and their stories, as well as provide emerging filmmakers with an opportunity to showcase their film making abilities. The successful applicants will receive $4000 cash and up to…
The first images of Gorge Miller’s Mad Max reboot have been revealed via Entertainment Weekly’s website. The disaster riddled production of Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as Max, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. The film opens in 2015. Fingers crossed. You can see more photos on Entertainment Weekly’s website here.
When director Chris Sun wrote exclusively for Cinema Australia about his new film Charlie’s Farm our servers almost blew their tops as it quickly became one of our most read articles. Readers in Queensland will be keen to know the following message was recently posted on the film’s Facebook page. Charlie’s Farm is proud to…
Cinema Australia had the pleasure of attending the 26th Annual WA Screen Award nominations tonight, Tuesday, 24th June. FTI announced the successful 2014 nominees for the 26th annual WA Screen Awards (WASAs) on Tuesday 24 June 2014 at PICA Bar in the Perth Cultural Centre. The WA Screen Awards (WASAs) is the premier celebration of West…
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