Canadian actor Merritt Patterson (The Royals) and Joshua Sasse (Love Is In The Air, Monarch) come together in the new feature romance, One Perfect Match, now shooting at locations across Brisbane. This latest feature film from Jaggi Entertainment is written by Ansley Gordon and directed by Jo-Anne Brechin (When Love Springs, Zelos) and further cements Queensland’s…
With their new documentary, The Giants, filmmakers Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony have created an affectionate portrait of one of Australia’s most recognisable identities – former leader of The Greens Party, staunch environmental activist, folk hero and gay icon, Bob Brown. A follow up to their television hit, Freeman, Laurence and Rachael inject The Giants…
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…
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