MDFF Review: The Power of Activism

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Steven Posvolsky Review by Gavin Bond This passionate environmental and feministic documentary proves to be most timely. On one hand, this multi-faceted doco successfully taps into the current focus on Environmental reform in Australia, (recently illustrated by the emergence…

What’s On [Melbourne]: Where the Water Starts will have its Melbourne premiere at MDFF

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Investigating the destruction of the fragile alpine ecology of Australia’s Snowy Mountains, Where the Water Starts will celebrate it’s Melbourne premiere at the upcoming in-cinema component of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Richard Swain, Indigenous Ambassador with the Invasive Species Council,…

National Q&A tour announced for heartwarming doc, Everybody’s Oma – See the trailer here!

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Bonsai Films has announced the national cinema release of Everybody’s Oma from August 11 (Victoria from August 25), with a national tour of preview Q&A screenings from July 30. Selected for the Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and CinefestOZ, Everybody’s…

See the new trailer for Del Kathryn Barton’s wildly imaginative Blaze

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The mesmerising directorial feature debut from fine artist, Del Kathryn Barton, Blaze tells the story of a teenager who processes her trauma by ascending into a fantasy world Barton has created by combining a unique and visionary blend of live action, puppetry and animation.…

MDFF Review: Living in the Time of Dying

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Written, directed and produced by Michael Shaw Featuring Jem Bendell, Dahr Jamail, Catherine Ingram and Stan Rushworth Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding…

New Trailer: There’s a killer on the loose in Mark Hartley’s new thriller, Girl at the Window

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Starring Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen, Silent Hill), Girl at the Window is a psychological thriller that follows a teenage girl’s quest for the truth when she becomes convinced that her mother’s new boyfriend is the serial killer terrorising their town, and will…

MDFF Review: Who Would You Tell?

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Dery Sultana Review by Gavin Bond This appropriately titled documentary is yet another sobering and chilling account of child abuse.  Who Would You Tell? chronicles the tragic true story of a family of post-war migrant children who were sent…

Alena Lodkina’s Petrol to premiere in Locarno ahead of MIFF screenings – See the trailer here

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Arenamedia is delighted to announce that Australian director Alena Lodkina’s new feature film Petrol will have its World Premiere in the Locarno International Film Festival’s prestigious Cineasti del Presente section on August 5, followed by its premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11. Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente (‘directors of the…

Get to know the cast of The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Platon Theodoris’ The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour will screen at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival next week. Directed by Theodoris, and co-written by Theodoris and Nitin Vengurlekar, The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour follows verbose radio host Neville Umbrellaman (Nitin Vengurlekar). When…