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…
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…
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