Seven new Australian works have been selected for the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival including Ivan Sen’s Limbo and Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness which will both premiere in Competition. Also selected are drama series Bad Behaviour directed by Corrie Chen; features Hello Dankness from Soda Jerk, Jub Clerc’s Sweet As and Talk…
The year has started strong for Queensland’s screen industry with production currently underway on the Australian feature film A Savage Christmas — supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Screen Finance program, with principal production investment from Screen Australia. The film is the debut production from Roaring Entertainment — a newly formed company by…
Canberrans will be the first to enjoy a sneak preview of an award-winning Canberra web series on youth mental health when it launches at the National Film and Sound Archives on 23 February. Fragments thrusts viewers into the world of eight teenagers navigating anxiety, depression, bullying, family dysfunction, gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, neurodivergence and more.…
by Matthew Eeles A trailer has been released for The Grey Line ahead of the film’s world premiere at the upcoming WA Made Film Festival. The powerful new WA-shot documentary 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 Government…
A fresh new trailer has just dropped for Sweet As ahead of the film’s Perth premiere at the WA Made Film Festival, and the recent announcement that the film will make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month in the Generation Kplus strand, which is aimed at a youth audience. In remote…
Now in its fourth year, the WA Made Film Festival will return in 2023 with an epic celebration of locally-made films including 14 feature films, 57 short films, one web series, two masterclasses, multiple filmmaker discussion panels and 17 smartphone films made exclusively for the festival. Running over ten days from Friday, 17 February until…
Award-winning Western Australian writer/director David Vincent Smith brings a personal story to the big screen with his feature film directorial debut He Ain’t Heavy set to commence shooting Monday 23 January in Perth’s south-eastern suburbs, with major production investment from Screenwest and Lotterywest. Inspired by true events, the film follows a desperate sister who kidnaps…
Saara Lamberg’s Westermarck Effect will celebrate a special Q&A screening at LIDO Cinemas in Melbourne next month. Never one to shy away from controversy, Lamberg’s new film is said to “take on the taboo of genetic of sexual attraction”. Here’s the synopsis: Sally (Lamberg) gave her son, Sam (Jayden Denke), up for adoption twenty years…
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…
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