Writer, director, co-producer, director of photography, editor and composer Ivan Sen and actor Simon Baker join the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their masterful new film, Limbo. In Limbo, Simon Baker plays Travis, a jaded detective who arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder…
Bunya Productions has today debuted the trailer for auteur filmmaker Ivan Sen’s critically acclaimed outback noir Limbo, starring AACTA Award-winning, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Simon Baker (High Ground, Breath), with Rob Collins (Mystery Road the TV series, Firebite), Natasha Wanganeen (Firebite, Rabbit Proof Fence) and Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby, The Drover’s Wife: The Legend…
Enjoy Cinema Australia? Click below to… It was October 2013 and Cinema Australia was in its infancy. I had been building my online Australian film publication for less than a month when I was offered an interview with Ivan Sen to talk about this new movie he was promoting called Mystery Road. I remember the weather…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Enjoy Cinema Australia? Click below to… “What a lovely guy.” Those were the first words I said to myself as I ended my Zoom call with Ryan Kwanten. The Australian-born, internationally adored actor has an air of hippy about him – His beard is long, and his hair is scruffy. He’s…
Enjoy Cinema Australia? Click below to… Ivan Sen is the Swiss Army knife of Australian filmmakers. Going above and beyond for his art, Sen is often credited as producer, writer, director, cinematographer, composer and editor on his films including the highly-regarded Mystery Road, Goldstone, Beneath Clouds and Toomelah. Sen is a wealth of knowledge, which…
2016 saw another great year for Australian films in terms of quality. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to catch a lot of great films from this year and next via cinema, home release, preview screeners and film festivals. Here are our Top 5 for 2016 including the winner of the Cinema Australia 2016 Best Film…
A stunningly gorgeous trailer has dropped for Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road sequel, Goldstone. Not one to let anyone else get in the way of his creative genius, Sen is credited as the writer, director, composer and cinematographer on the film. What a legend! Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think.…
AACTA is now calling for recommendations for one of the nation’s most coveted and prestigious screen excellence Awards – the Byron Kennedy Award. This Award, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, celebrates outstanding creative enterprise within the film and television industries and is given to an individual…
Mystery Road was the big winner of last nights Australian Film Critics Association Film & Writing Awards. Ivan Sen’s below average, dusty thriller took home six major awards including Best Film and Best Cinematography. Being a male dominated film the only two local awards Mystery Road didn’t take out were Best Actress (Nicole Kidman, The Railway…
ABC1 will be celebrating Australia Day by screening Ivan Sen’s outback thriller, Mystery Road on Sunday 26th January at 8.30pm. Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback home town, to solve the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. You can read our review…
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