After a successful international film festival run where it won the Light in Motion Award for Best International Short Film at the Oscar, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Qualifying Foyle Film Festival in Northern Ireland in 2021 and was officially selected for Seattle International Film Festival in 2022, Australian short film Shallow Breath is now available…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Jub Clerc, the director and co-writer of the uplifting coming-of-age road movie, Sweet As. I’ve been looking forward to recording an episode with Jub since I first met her while she was in post-production on Sweet As back in…
Thanks to Garage Entertainment, we’re giving away a stack of The Greatest Surf Movie In The Universe double passes, plus a movie poster signed by filmmakers Nick Pollet and Vaughan Blakey and surfers Ronnie Blakey, Mason Ho, Griffin Colapinto and Joe Turpel. 10 years from now a virus more deadly and more contagious than anything…
Sydney cinephiles will be treated to an unmissable 30th anniversary screening of cult classic, Bad Boy Bubby, with director Rolf de Heer and star Nicholas Hope in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. Confined to a two-room slum for his whole life, Bubby (Hope) knows only of the existence of himself and his mother (Claire Benito),…
Award-winning filmmaker, Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy has been selected for this years’ Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard program. This is the second film from Thornton to appear at the festival, after winning the Caméra d’Or Award forSamson & Delilah in 2009. The New Boy stars Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair,…
Brace yourself, the trailer for horror film Talk to Me has launched, ahead of its nationwide cinema release on July 27. Talk to Me is the directorial debut from twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, aka RackaRacka, which follows a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand. The friends…
The world’s most remote rock band, The Desert Stars, will perform in Perth during a special event screening of Gravel Road – Tristan Pemberton’s new documentary about the band and its frontman, Jay Minning. The Desert Stars are traditional land owners of Spinifex Country in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, home of the last…
CinefestOZ, the premier film festival organisation in Western Australia, is pleased to announce the appointment of Cassandra Jordan as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Cassandra will assume the role on 4 May 2023, succeeding Malinda Nixon, who is stepping down after 14 years of dedicated service. Cassandra has significant experience in the arts, cultural…
RELATED: Guest writer Alex von Hoffman shares his stories from the making of Western Australian dinosaur short, Evie. Short film Evie is now screening on the selective Youtube channel Omeleto, home of the worlds best short films. You can watch it below. Set in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, Evie is a suspenseful ride that…
John Farnham: Finding The Voice tells the untold story of an Australian music icon. In this first authorised biopic, we follow Farnham’s life from the quiet suburbs of Melbourne to ‘60s pop fame, through incredible highs and lows, and ultimately to record-breaking success as ‘Australia’s Voice’. John Farnham was 38 years old when Whispering Jack was…
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