Australia’s internationally acclaimed Back to Back Theatre, a professional theatre company with an ensemble of actors with disabilities at its core, revealed their new film Shadow to the world when it screened at SXSW earlier this year where the film was awarded the SXSW Visions Audience Award. Shadow is directed by Bruce Gladwin, co-produced by Alice Fleming…
A cursed artefact in the form of a mask turns otherwise peaceful individuals into weaponised purveyors of homicide. Alice Maio Mackay‘s second feature film, Bad Girl Boogey, is a transgressive take on the classic slasher film. One Halloween, blood was shed by the wearer of a parasitic mask cursed with black magic and bigotry. Sixteen…
What started as an experimental YouTube video in 2014 has developed into the first Maltese immigrant story to ever hit the big screen. Maltese-Australian film director Julian Galea has teamed up with his brother, actor and magician James Galea, for the raucous road trip comedy, Brothers From Malta, which will have its Australian premiere with…
RELATED: Vulnerability, tragedy and a pandemic: The making of A Pencil to the Jugular Australian New Wave screenings supported by Cinespace Inc. will showcase two feature-length films by Matthew Victor Pastor at the Thornbury Picture House over the coming weeks – In Heaven They Sing Karaoke will screen on November 15 and A Pencil to the Jugular will screen…
A new trailer has arrived for WA-shot feature film, Thorns & Thistles at the End of the World. Directed by Aaron Kamp (Hidden Light), Thorns & Thistles at the End of the World follows former business executive, Paul (Jeremy Levi). As the end of the world draws near, Paul keeps himself distracted by mowing lawns. When his estranged…
Australia’s premiere destination film festival CinefestOZ is excited to announce that film submissions for the 2023 event are now open, held in the South West of WA in August (29 August- 3 September). Filmmakers are encouraged to make submissions for the Official Selection and Short Film Program for contention in both the CinefestOZ Albany (27 – 30 April…
Princess Pictures today launched a new short-form comedy series called Flats, which was supported by Screen Australia through the Online Production Fund. The six-part series stars real residents of inner-city Melbourne’s community housing in their first acting roles. The fictional story follows 27-year-old Joey as he is released from prison and returns home to the…
A trailer has dropped for new documentary Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey along with Q&A screenings with director and projectionist Rob Murphy at select cinemas around Australia. Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey explores the single greatest change in the history of cinema; the digital shift from recording and projecting movies on film. Now ten years on from this momentous…
Stan today announced that Christmas will come early this year with the Stan Original Film Christmas Ransom to premiere on 1 December, starring acclaimed comedian Matt Okine (Stan Original Series The Other Guy), TV Week Logie Award-winner Miranda Tapsell (Top End Wedding, The Sapphires, Love Child) and Ed Oxenbould (Stan Original Series Bloom, Paper Planes, Puberty Blues), Written…
The Australian Directors’ Guild has today announced the nominees for the 2022 ADG Awards. It’s a breakthrough year at the Awards for women directors in Australia. Receiving three nominations is Sian Davies, recognised for her work across drama, comedy and children’s programs. Sian has been nominated for Best Direction in a TV or SVOD Drama…
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