A new trailer and release date has been revealed for John V. Soto’s (The Gateway, The Reckoning, Needle) riveting new thriller, Avarice. Kate (Gillian Alexy), an Olympic level archer and her investment banker husband, Ash (Luke Ford), embark on a much-needed vacation with their teenage daughter, Sarah, at a remote forest house. Kate and Ash have…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It gives me great pleasure to bring you this deep dive interview with filmmaker Matthew Holmes. I’ve been following Matthew’s work since the release of The Legend of Ben Hall back in 2016. Since then I’ve eagerly awaited Matthew’s followup films. His passion and tenacity makes…
Yesterday I published my interview with Seriously Red writer, creator and star Krew Boylan, so who better to follow it up with today than Krew’s co-star, Daniel Webber. I’ve admired Daniel’s work since first seeing him in Rhys Graham’s 2013 drama, Galore, in which his acting ability was on full display. In this rowdy and…
Celebrating the achievement, innovation and ambition of our local industry, the WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs) embrace all forms from new, established and emerging screen practices. Now in its third year the WASCAs will be held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville hosted by comedian Joe White. “Everyone involved in the WASCAs including…
A delegation of Australian screen industry heavyweights arrived at Parliament House yesterday as proud campaign ambassadors of the Make It Australian campaign, where they, alongside a large number of screen industry leaders, converged to lobby politicians to support our industry’s future. After a successful national launch of a reimagined Make It Australian Campaign in June 2022, SPA,…
Following a successful festival run, Slovenian-Australian writer and director Sara Kern’s feature debut Moja Vesna will release in cinemas December 8, 2022 After wowing festival audiences around the world with her poetic, visually stunning short films Good Luck, Orlo! and Vesna Goodbye, Sara Kern has made a strikingly assured jump to feature films with Moja…
Within the space of a few days I was treated to multiple screenings of the new Australian dramedy, Seriously Red, and in that same amount of time I interviewed the film’s writer, creator and star, Krew Boylan, twice. On the first occasion I watched the film, it was at home ahead of a Zoom interview…
I’m well aware that it’s a cliché to describe a fresh filmmaking talent as “one to keep an eye on”, but in Alice Maio Mackay’s case there’s no better way for me to introduce this extrordinarly talented young filmmaker. And when I say young, I mean it literally. At just eighteen years old, Alice is…
Thanks to Telethon Community Cinemas, we’re giving away five passes to see Nadi Sha’s new coming-of-age drama, Everything in Between. 18-year-old Jay has had enough of life. 28-year-old Liz can’t get enough of it. And as Jay (Jordan Dulieu) stands on a cliff top contemplating putting an end to the meaningless fog of his existence,…
A teaser trailer has dropped for new found-footage horror, Subject, ahead of the film’s world premiere at Monster Fest next weekend. Directed by Tristan Barr (Watch the Sunset) from a script by Vincent Befi, Subject is a multi-layered fable about a prisoner who is given the chance to serve out his sentence observing a mysterious creature in…
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