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…

See the trailer for new sharksploitation thriller The Reef: Stalked

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer has dropped for The Reef: Stalked which will release exclusively to Shudder on July 29. The Reef: Stalked stars an all-Australian cast, Teressa Liane (The Vampire Diaries), Ann Truong (Cowboy BeBop), Saskia Archer (Boshack), Kate Lister(Clickbait) and Tim…

Meet the cast and crew of Edward & Isabella

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Micro-budget indies – we love them! While on programming duties for the WA Made Film Festival, Cinema Australia came across and absolute beauty – Adam Morris’ Edward & Isabella. A micro-budget indie in every sense, Edward & Isabella is a…

Taryn Brumfitt’s body image documentary Embrace: Kids has a new trailer

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Internationally recognised body-image advocate Taryn Brumfitt has launched the trailer for her new film Embrace: Kids, to be released by Transmission Films nationally on September 1. Brumfitt is a best-selling author and speaker and the film director behind the break-out documentary…

CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize finalists revealed – Here’s why we can’t wait to see these new films

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. There’s some big film festival news coming out of Western Australia this morning with CinefestOZ announcing its $100,000 Film Prize finalists. Gracie Otto’s Seriously Red, Matt Nable’s Transfusion, Jub Clerc’s Sweet As and Goran Stolevski’s Of An Age are all in the…

Cinema Australia Podcast #81 | Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Australian filmmakers do a lot of things right. But one thing they do exceptionally well is horror.  Not only do Australian horror films like Wolf Creek, The Loved Ones and The Babadook and timeless classics like Razorback…

Student documentary Walk, Run, Strive scores BAFTA nomination

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. An inspirational short film about a young athlete with cerebral palsy has earned a group of Edith Cowan University (ECU) students a prestigious BAFTA nomination. The documentary, Walk, Run, Strive, produced by Sarah Williams, who has cerebral palsy herself, and written…

Interview: Tim Barretto

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Related coverage: Read our Bassendream review here. Remember the name Tim Barretto. The filmmaker and photographer has been making movies in Australia, Indonesia and India for over a decade, but his debut dramatic feature film, Bassendream, is his most impressive…

New Trailer! Lee Kernaghan: Boy From The Bush celebrates the life and music of an iconic Australian Country singer

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Maslow Entertainment has revealed the trailer, first look key art, and announced the release date for, Lee Kernaghan: Boy From The Bush, a new concert documentary celebrating the life and music of the iconic Australian Country singer, set to arrive in Australian cinemas…