“Everyone wanted to interview Stephen Peacocke,” director Kane Guglielmi told me during an early morning Skype chat, just three days before his new film’s premiere. I was surprised considering Peacocke has only one scene in the film. “Now that he’s done a few studio films there’s a lot more buzz around him, rather than just being…
Australia has consistently produced genre films of an extraordinarily high quality – Wolf Creek, Road Games, Mad Max and more recently Boys in the Trees. Nestled right there in the middle is Joel Anderson’s excellent and spooky tale Lake Mungo which is set to screen as part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival’s Australian Revelations Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming…
Cinema Australia is giving our readers the chance to win one of ten in-season double passes to see Joe Cinque’s Consolation. In early 1997 Anu Singh, a beautiful law student at the Australian National University, confides in friends that she plans to kill herself to put an end to a mysterious illness. With doctors unable or…
New Australian documentary, Hotel Coolgardie will be having its Perth premiere next month as part of Australian Revelations – a celebrations of Australian film presented by Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia. After screenings at the Sydney Film Festival and the internationally regarded Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs, Hotel Coolgardie comes to town…
“It was like a dream come true to see that happen in Italy and see the Aussies and the Italians working together side-by-side and bringing out the best in each other.” by Matthew Eeles Tell us a bit about The Space Between. What’s it about? The Space Between is about the character of Marco who…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. We’d just be positively un-Australian if we didn’t pay a tip of the hat to the footy finals. As our tribute to the great Australian game…
Ground breaking documentary, The Animal Condition, is set for a national cinema release this August and September via new Cinema-On-Demand platform Fan-Force.com. The thought provoking documentary charts the journey of animal welfare in Australia from a fringe issue to a nationwide debate. After stumbling upon activist videos of suffering farm animals online one night, four young friends take an investigative…
Support Low Budget Aussie Filmmakers – be the first to see undiscovered indie films on the big screen. Below Five Zero is a new film festival created to provide a platform for Australian films – features and shorts – made with a budget of less than $50,000. Screening this October the festival is your chance…
Cooped Up Directed by Kane Guglielmi Written by John Ratchford Produced by Kane Guglielmi Starring Stephen Peacocke, Charles Cottier, Kathryn Beck, Tim Ross, Sam Glissan, Adam Demos and Ray Hadley Why we’re excited No aerial shots or desert landscapes, no over-cast actors and no depressing suburban tales. Cooped Up looks like it’s chock full of genuine belly laughs, bursting with originality…
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, we’re giving away copies of Scare Campaign on DVD. Popular prank TV show, Scare Campaign, has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun. But as we enter a new age of online TV the producers find themselves up against…
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