Nick and Nathan Lacey’s excellent short film, Die Bully Die, has won the $7,000 Dendy Live Action Short Award at the 71st Sydney Film Festival. Die Bully Die follows Max (Matthew Backer), who encounters his high-school bully, Adam (Drew Weston), 17 years later in a fancy restaurant, where Max’s grudge against Adam manifests in horrific…
A fresh and colourful trailer has dropped for Pencilhead’s Safari So Good ahead of the educational short film’s world premiere at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. Illustrated by Jason Sampson, Pencilhead’s Safari So Good introduces the world to the Pencilhead Gang – Lizzie, Blade, Carol, Arnie, Andy, Maarli, Cassie and Pencilhead – a special group…
A new trailer has dropped for Cameron Brunt’s new documentary, Dogs of Valour ahead of the film’s world premiere in November. Dogs of Valour is an unbelievable account of war dogs risking life and limb to protect the pack. In the heat of combat, the dogs and their handlers forged an unbreakable bond. Narrated by…
The captivating Australian documentary, Why Humans Dive, has been selected to screen at this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Directed by Harry Cassio, Why Humans Dive has received multiple awards at a variety of global festivals, including Best Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Trailer. The documentary is a captivating, informative and quirky…
This year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is set to return to cinemas, promising a blockbuster experience for documentary enthusiasts. Running online from July 1st to 31st, 2024, and at Cinema Nova from July 17th to 31st, 2024, the festival will showcase an impressive lineup of over 60 Australian short-form and feature-length documentaries. Celebrating its dedication…
Madman Entertainment has launched the teaser trailer for Memoir of a Snail, the latest film from Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet). Featuring a voice cast of top talent from Australia and France including Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Tony Armstrong and Jacki…
Filmed on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kid Snow tells the story of a down-and-out Irish fighter named Kid Snow, who gets a shot at redemption in a rematch against the man who beat him ten years ago. Directed by Paul Goldman, the film is set in 1971 and follows a rowdy traveling tent-boxing…
The highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cultural event returns this August. Proudly screening in Naarm and surrounds from 8-25 August, MIFF brings together some of the most talked about films of the year, hotly anticipated hits from the…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. There is an outstanding group of local filmmakers currently producing an unparalleled, visually stunning, and surreal style of Australian cinema. Sometimes these films are so dreamlike that, hours later, you’ll question whether you actually watched a movie or if it was all just a dream.…
Will Howarth and Tom McKeith’s In Vitro is a masterstroke in nerve-shredding cinema. Its timely, unsettling and thrilling narrative will burrow deep into your mind and stay there for days. This new Australian film, which is set to premiere at the upcoming Sydney Film Festival, follows Layla (played by co-writer Talia Zucker) and her husband…
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