David Wenham will attend the CinéfestOZ film festival (26-30 August) as Jury Chair for Australia’s biggest film prize, the CinéfestOZ Film Prize. The CinéfestOZ Film Prize encourages excellence in Australian filmmaking by providing a $100,000 award to an Australian feature film or feature-length documentary. David Wenham’s role as Chair is to head the five-person jury…
The new Blinky Bill trailer has arrived and it’s kinda cute and very funny. Blinky Bill is a koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his explorer father’s footsteps. Mr. Bill went missing in the Outback sometime ago and Blinky…
CinemaPlus and Illumination Films have launched the trailer and poster for Paul Cox’s new film, Force of Destiny, with the announcement of the film’s official Australian Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August. David Denham starts as Robert, a renowned sculpture diagnosed with cancer of the liver. While reeling from this news he meets…
Roadshow entertainment announced today that Robert Connolly’s box office smash Paper Planes will be available to own on Blu-ray and DVD from June 24. Fans of the film, or those yet to experienced it, will also be able to see the film a little earlier via digital release on June 10. Paper Planes is a magical…
There wasn’t a dry eye in the cinema when the credits rolled for Robert Connolly’s Paper Planes at this year’s CinéfestOZ. And it was with good reason that the film took out the $100,000 film prize. For those who haven’t been lucky enough to see the film yet, here’s the brand new trailer to tide…
CinéfestOZ will soar to new heights with the Western Australian premiere of Paper Planes,produced by Robert Connolly, Maggie Miles and Liz Kearney. The highly-anticipated family film will screen as part of MIFF@CinéfestOZ: a presentation of the Melbourne International Film Festival MIFF Premiere Fund at CinéfestOZ. Paper Planes is a family film that tells the story of a…
Tim Winton’s The Turning is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Discover an extraordinary filmmaking collaboration in TIM WINTON’S THE TURNING. Eighteen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in…
Those who missed Robert Connolly’s adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning at the cinema are in for a treat this Sunday night… and you don’t even have to leave you home. ABC1 will be screening the omnibus on Sunday, 23rd February at 9.40. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter…
CinéfestOZ announced today that it will present Australia’s richest film prize during the 2014 festival as part of a new three year sponsorship arrangement with Eventscorp. The CinéfestOZ Film Prize is a $100,000 award open to Australian feature films that meet the eligibility criteria. CinefestOZ is supported by the State Government through Eventscorp’s Regional Events…
Would we have had this years Mystery Road without Ivan Sen’s ’98 short Vanish? Or Robert Connolly’s million dollar success The Turning without his ’97 short Rust Bucket? The fact is short films are the backbone of the film industry and the beginning of amazing careers for some of the world’s greatest auteurs. Here, Cinema…
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