New website and trailer for Houghton’s Touch

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…

Sunday Shorts #6: Off The Meter

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…

PLAYBOY: Why today’s best horror films come from Australia

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…

Interview: Jennifer Kent

“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…

Sunday Shorts #5: Central Texas Barbecue

“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…

First look at Christopher Houghton’s Touch

On a cold winter morning Dawn commits a seemingly senseless crime, leaving a man unconscious, but she is running from something bigger. Dawn is harbouring a shattering secret. Taking flight with her young daughter, Steph, they hide out in a remote hills town where she tries to keep her restless daughter from prying eyes. Unpredictable…

Pearce gets wordy in new clip for The Rover

With society in decline, the rule of law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened loner Eric travels the desolate towns and roads of the scorched and dangerous Australian outback. When a brutal gang of thieves steals his car and only remaining possession, they leave behind the wounded Rey in their wake. Forcing Rey to…

New Charlie’s Country clip

Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie’s Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The government’s intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don’t generally make much sense, and…