HALO Films partners with Five Star Cinemas in New Farm, Brisbane

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,…

Capricorn Film Festival 2023 program announced!

Central Queensland’s premiere film arts festival returns with new feature film and documentary premieres, art experiences and much more. The 2023 Capricorn Film Festival is presented by Livingstone Shire Council, Tourism Events Queensland, Screen Queensland, Regional Arts Australia, Keppel Coast Arts and will be held from Wednesday the 18th to Saturday 21st of January 2023…

Barry Pepper, Sam Neill and Rachel Griffiths to star in Luke Sparke’s mob-thriller, Bring Him to Me

Primetime Emmy Award-Winner and Golden Globe Nominee, Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Maze Runner) takes the lead in feature film Bring Him to Me, currently shooting in Queensland, Australia with director Luke Sparke (Occupation Rainfall) and writer Tom Evans. Barry Pepper first shot to fame with his break-through role of a bible-quoting sniper in Stephen Spielberg’s drama, Saving Private…

Cinema Australia Podcast #89 | John V. Soto

In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, host Matthew Eeles is joined by Perth-based filmmaker John V. Soto to discuss Avarice, an action thriller starring Gillian Alexy as a gifted, Olympic-level archer who must rescue her husband, played by Luke Ford, and daughter, played by Téa Heathcote-Marks, after they are abducted during a vicious…

Cameras set to wrap on Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy

Award-winning First Nations filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy wraps this week in regional South Australia, with major production funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department alongside Fremantle and Gretel Packer’s Longbridge Nominees, who join producers Kath Shelper for Scarlett Pictures; and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Georgie Pym and Coco Francini for Dirty…

Interview: Tristan Barr and Stephen Phillips

In 2017, Tristan Barr launched his feature filmmaking career by co-directing, co-writing, co-producing and co-starring in Watch the Sunset.  The fast-paced one-shot action thriller was a hit on the festival circuit around the world and was quickly picked up by Australian streamer Stan where the film is still available to watch. With Barr’s Watch the…