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…
Matt Nable’s gritty and bloody new Australian film Transfusion has won the prestigious Howard Frank Van Norton Award for Best Film at the International Veterans Film Festival. Selected by the Jury which included Jury Chair Bruce Beresford, Lisa Hoppe, Jenni Baird, Alan Dukes, Julie Kalceff, Cameron Patrick, Petra Salsjo and Gus O’Brien-Cavanough, Transfusion was selected for…
Maslow Entertainment has revealed the trailer for The Angels: Kickin’ Down The Door, an intimate and compelling music documentary feature about iconic Australian rock ‘n’ roll band The Angels, exploring the tensions that tore a band apart and helped them produce such classic hits as Take a Long Line, Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again and No Secrets. Set to…
Screen Inc, Australia’s newest distribution company, will celebrate its launch next week with three Australian film showcases including The Land, The Florist and a 4K remastered version of Serhat Caradee’s Cedar Boys. Founded by FilmInk founder, editor and publisher, Dov Kornits, Screen Inc will provide a platform for Australian filmmakers to get their content in…
Jub Clerc, Taryne Laffar, Danielle MacLean, Kelton Pell, Ngaire Pigram, Mark Coles Smith, Mitch Torres and Tasma Walton are just some of Australia’s finest First Nations filmmakers who will be celebrating WA’s inaugural First Nations Film Festival when it kicks off this Thursday, November 3 to Sunday, November 6. “To celebrate our first year of…
As far as acting gigs go for someone just starting out in their career, Rebecca Leafe has hit the jackpot. The Perth-based actor has just wrapped filming on Adam Morris’ Frank and Frank (or The Valley and The Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts) starring opposite Myles Pollard in the Albany-shot drama which also…
Over the weekend, the highly regarded Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival rolled out the red carpet at the Gympie Pavilion to celebrate filmmakers from around the world at their inaugural Awards Ceremony The awards were presented by a star-studded industry lineup, including Festival Patron, filmmaker and actor extraordinaire Leah Purcell and Vanessa Gazy,…
Senses of Cinema explores the history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne. This incredibly insightful and highly important documentary comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s, John Hughes and Tom Zubrycki. Featuring the like of Philip…
A new trailer has dropped for Jane Hammond’s Black Cockatoo Crisis. Black cockatoo numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south-west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats. With the loss of the banksia woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain to housing, Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos…
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