Located at one of Australia’s coolest venues within one of Australia’s coolest art precincts is Brisbane’s very own Australia Independent Film Festival. Known passionately as “the filmmaker’s festival,” AIFF is on track to become Australia’s premiere live screening short film and screenplay festival. AIFF23 will next take place in Brisbane at Metro Arts West Village…
Australian sci-fi thriller Monolith starring rising star Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise, I Met a Girl, Picnic at Hanging Rock) will have its international premiere at SXSW 2023 and has locked ANZ distribution and international sales. XYZ Films is now representing the title for North America, with Bonsai Films handling Australian distribution. Blue Finch Films…
After accelerating through high school and gaining early access into film school at the age of 16, Jack Dignan has established himself as a writer, director and producer with a unique style and a fresh voice in genre filmmaking. His recent short films It Feels Like Spring and Does Nobody See the Gun? have gained…
Sundayarvo Productions, the creators of comedy series Stage Mums which aired on Network Ten, have released their new animated series Insta Infamous. The story follows the adventures of Brit-Nay, a fame-chasing Gen Z influencer hell bent on increasing her social media following so she can become Instafamous. When things don’t go as planned she ends up…
Independent Australian filmmaker, Davo Hardy, has announced his sixth feature film, The Switchblade Sisterhood. Hardy saw a lot of success in 2022; with his controversial feature Public Eye going all the way to the AACTAs and garnering over a dozen prestigious awards, worldwide. 2022 also saw the launch of his own distribution platform; Davo Hardy…
Jack Dignan’s new Australian horror, After She Died, will be available via video-on-demand next Friday, 13 January. After She Died follows Jen, a young woman who’s mother suddenly dies. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind…
Welcome to the very first episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast for 2023. I can’t believe this is the 90th episode, and I couldn’t think of a better guest to celebrate with than esteemed Australian filmmaker, Robert Connolly. I first met Robert back in 2013 when he was in Perth with The Turning. He was my…
2022 has been an incredible year for Australian cinema with so many quality films released. If you’re looking to watch more Australian films from 2022, but you don’t know where to begin, we’ve put together this list of 84 new Australian films we watched throughout the year. Consider it a check list for films that…
Of An Age is one of the best Australian films I’ve seen in years, and one of the very best Australian films so far this century. Few films, Australian or international, have ever come this close to portraying such an accurate romance on screen. Writer and director Goran Stolevski’s ability to put the viewer into…
by Matthew Eeles Back in September, Cinema Australia announced that HALO Films had partnered with Adelaide’s Wallis Cinemas Piccadilly to screen the WA distributor’s slate of quality productions. In more exciting news coming from the industrious distributor, HALO Films has now cast its distribution net even wider by adding Five Star Cinemas in New Farm,…
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