Interview: Andrew Leavold

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. If you watch one documentary this year, make it Pub: The Movie. Andrew Leavold’s new film experience takes viewers back in time to an era of Australian pub culture where live music epicentres like St Kilda were wildly energetic and heaving with…

Official trailer, poster and release date revealed for Sissy

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Arcadia has revealed the official trailer, poster and release date for new darkly comedic horror, Sissy. Directed and written by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes and starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type, Look Both Ways), Barlow (For Now), Emily De Margheriti (Ladies…

AACTA nominated documentary Franklin flows into cinemas next week

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Kasimir Burgess’ deeply moving doco about the environmental campaign that changed Australian history has been nominated in the Best Documentary category at the upcoming AACTA Awards. Things are really flowing right now for the new documentary Franklin. Early reviews have been…

Four new Stan Original Documentaries added to streamer’s Revealed slate

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Here’s a stack of new documentaries being released by Stan which we know Cinema Australia readers will be keen to learn about. Here’s the press release: Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, and Screen Australia today announced four brand new…

Submissions are now open for the 2023 WA Made Film Festival

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Submissions are now open for the 2023 WA Made Film Festival – Western Australia’s largest celebration of locally-made screen content. WA-based filmmakers are encouraged to submit their feature films, short films, documentaries, web series, television episodes and smartphone films now to ensure they’re a part…

Two new Australian films included in Adelaide Film Festival sneak peak

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The Adelaide Film Festival has revealed a sneak peak at its 2022 program which includes two new Australian films, Carnifex and The Last Daughter. Carnifex, the directorial debut of acclaimed South Australian film editor Sean Lahiff, received production investment from the…

Of An Age wins CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Goran Stolevski’s superb feature film Of An Age has won Australia’s richest annual $100,000 Film Prize at this year’s CinefestOZ. Of An Age filmmakers were presented the prize by WA Deputy Premier and Tourism Minister Roger Cook at the prestigious Closing Night Gala…

Interview: Lachlan McLeod

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Trauma cleaners clean spaces that no one else will touch – hoarder sites, meth-labs, murder scenes, deaths and suicides. They clean the homes of some of society’s most vulnerable people – the neglected, the lonely, the addicted, and the mentally unwell. When illness forces…