Warwick Thornton’s intriguing film The Darkside will be the only Australian film to screen as part of 2014’s Perth Festival. A special Q&A with the Caméra d’Or winning director will be held on Monday, 24th February 2014 at Summerville. You can buy tickets here. Ghost stories abound in Australia’s Indigenous culture, and The Darkside invites you fireside to…
Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost tales from across Australia and has brought them to life with some of Australia’s most iconic actors being the storytellers. The Darkside gives a black perspective on the afterlife. Performed by Deborah Mailman, Aaron Pedersen, Bryan Brown, Shari Sebbens, Claudia Karvan and…
“The next one is a science fiction film. An action romance in the vein of Blade Runner.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Mystery Road is obviously a genre film. What influences were there in your decision to step in to the realm of genre film making? For me it’s more of a stepping stone to fully blown…
Ivan Sen’s new Australian film Mystery Road, his fourth feature as a director, is as simple as movies come. It’s set in a small outback town and is structured around basic, overdone character stereotypes who provide just as many thrills as a bad episode of Blue Healers. Aaron Pedersen plays Jay Swan, a detective who…
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