Answer the call for your chance to be screened to CinefestOZ audiences through our popular Side Bar program. After a stellar program at the festival last year, CinefestOZ is excited to announce that the Short Film Entries are now open for 2016. CinefestOZ presents a wide variety of short films at side bar venues across the…
On April 21, indie Australian comic drama Pawno opens in cinemas nationally. The debut film by director Paul Ireland is set to charm audiences Australia-wide following its world premiere at MIFF 2015, where it was the Festival’s fastest-selling local ticket, and its award-winning European and Asian premieres. A valentine to the vibrant, multicultural suburb of Footscray,…
Entries are now open for the CinéfestOZ Film Prize, to be awarded during the August festival, in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. This $100,000 Film Prize is awarded to an Australian feature film for excellence in film making. In 2014 the inaugural CinéfestOZ Film Prize was won by the family friendly, Robert Connolly-directed film,…
Putuparri and the Rainmakers directed and produced by Nicole Ma, and produced by John Moore, has been named the winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize. Ma and Moore were presented with the film prize tonight as part of CinéfestOZ’s Gala Night celebrations in Busselton, in the south west of Western Australia. Starring Tom Lawford and…
CinéfestOZ film festival introduces an exciting program of Indigenous film and culture as part of this year’s festival. IndigifestOZ celebrates and builds awareness of Australian culture through Aboriginal film, art, music and food, and by recognising artists creating important work. CinéfestOZ Deputy Chair Helen Shervington said IndigifestOZ provides a showcase for Indigenous film and other…
“On the surface, many things are the same, the gear, the crew, the porta-loos.” Caroline Morgan (Robyn Butler) is the glue that keeps her family together, but when her movie star niece, Honey Halloway (Lucy Fry), is forced to stay with her in suburbia after her mother (Portia de Rossi) is sent to rehab, it’s…
Transmission Films is proud to announce the advance Q&A screening of Holding the Man with actor Ryan Corr at Luna Cinemas Leederville on Wednesday August 26 ahead of the cinematic release of the film across Australia on August 27. Network Ten News presenter Narelda Jacobs will host a question and answer session with Ryan in the cinema following a 6.30pm session of the film. Ryan will also…
“I was unaware at the time how privileged I was to film that journey and it was the beginning of my relationship with Spider, Dolly, Putuparri and their community.” Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford is a man caught between two worlds – torn between his life in the modern world of Fitzroy Crossing and his destiny as a…
Hugo Weaving will attend CinèfestOZ 2015 as this year’s Screen Legend, as the Festival launches its program of film and events today. Weaving will be recognised for his achievements as an Australian actor at the Festival’s Gala Night on 29 August at which Australia’s biggest film prize, the CinéfestOZ $100,000 Film Prize, is also awarded to an outstanding…
CinéfestOZ is delighted to announce the CinéfestOZ Film Prize jury who will decide on the winner of the Festival’s second annual $100,000 Film Prize. Jury Chair, Festival Patron and acclaimed Australian actor, David Wenham will be joined on the jury by actress Sarah Snook (Predestination, These Final Hours), writer/actor/director Wayne Blair (Redfern Now, The Sapphires), actor/casting director Annie Murtagh-Monks (Director of Skills & Engagement at…
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