Perth filmmaker Scott Quayle joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss his new documentary, The Grey Line – a powerful, eye-opening WA-shot film which tells the story of Helen Dwyer, also known as Ellen Collard. Taken from her parents during a time when Aboriginal children were removed from their families through…
Madman Entertainment has launched the trailer for the upcoming documentary Rachel’s Farm, featuring the acclaimed actor and director Rachel Ward. Rachel’s Farm will be released in cinemas nationally on 27 July 2023 and will receive its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June. Rachel’s Farm features intimate interviews with Rachel Ward, her family…
The momentous 70th Sydney Film Festival program was officially launched today by Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley, with a bumper line-up featuring the Australian premieres of new films including Warwick Thornton’s latest masterpiece The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett; Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; Celine Song’s highly anticipated Past Lives; films direct from the Cannes…
A first-look teaser trailer has dropped for Force of Nature: The Dry 2. When five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Victorian mountain ranges to investigate in the hopes of finding their whistle-blowing…
RELATED: Read our interview with filmmaker Penelope McDonald here. Penelope McDonald’s tender and revealing new film, Audrey Napanangka, will have an Alice Springs premiere on May 23 followed by national Q&A screenings. A tender story of one of Australia’s most unique families, Audrey Napanangka tells of Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate…
The filmmakers from Storyland, in conjunction with BirdLife Australia and distributor Antidote Films, will hold the world premiere of award-winning director Randall Wood’s Flyways – The Untold Story of Migratory Shorebirds on May 6 at the Majestic Cinema in Wynnum, Queensland. Flyways follows teams of scientists and amateur bird enthusiasts across the world as they…
Presented by HALO Films and Luna Palace Cinemas, Cinema Australia will host a special Gravel Road Q&A screening on Tuesday, May 9 at Luna Leederville which will also include a unique and exciting live music event featuring Spinifex Country band, The Desert Stars. Thanks to Luna Palace Cinemas, we’re giving Cinema Australia readers the chance…
Legendary Australian filmmaker, Rolf de Heer, joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss his new film, The Survival of Kindness. My first introduction to Rolf de Heer was in the mid-nineties when I was a teenager. A friend and I were sitting in his parents’ shed smoking cigarettes and drinking beer…
Fresh from its return from New York’s New Directors/New Films festival, and a glowing review from The New Yorker, Australian audiences will have an opportunity to see Alena Lodkina’s new feature film Petrol at a series of special screenings accompanied by Q&A’s in Sydney, Perth and Canberra ahead of its release at Sydney’s Golden Age…
Adding to its impressive slate of upcoming films, Sydney-based distributor Screen Inc. has picked up the Australian and New Zealand rights to Alastair Newton Brown’s gripping debut, Here Be Dragons. “We’re so excited about acquiring the Australian and New Zealand distribution rights to Here Be Dragons,” says Screen Inc. managing director Dov Kornits, fresh off…
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