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…
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,…
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