New Australian dramedy Bilched will be released nationally from November 21. Directed by Jeremy Cumpston and written by Hal Cumpston, Bilched is wild ride through the last days of High School with anti-hero Hal alongside his slacker/jock mates. Amongst the hilarious universal teenage stupidity and chaos of the penultimate end-of-school house party, it becomes glaringly obvious…
Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A new trailer has dropped for Locusts ahead of its theatrical release. An outback crime-thriller from writer and producer Angus Watts and director Heath Davis, Locusts follows two estranged brothers who are reluctantly reunited in their remote hometown…
Following the recent announcement of a limited Australian release, a new trailer has been revealed for Me & My Left Brain. What happens when you are in love with someone, you don’t know how they feel about you, you have a job interview in the morning… and you cannot sleep? Written, directed by and starring…
First images have been revealed for M4M – director Paul Ireland’s followup to the critically acclaimed Pawno. M4M is a modern update of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure set in a housing commission block in Prahran. In the film an unlikely love ignites between a modern muslim girl and a local musician amongst the background of racial…
by Matthew Eeles Alex & Eve scribe Alex Lykos has given Cinema Australia readers a first look at his directing debut, a new Australian comedy called Me & My Left Brain. Currently in post-production, Me & My Left Brain stars Mal Kennard as Left Brain (Catching Milat), Rachel Beck as Vivien (Hey Dad!), Chantelle Barry as Helen…
Genna Chanelle Hayes’ debut feature film Akoni will re-commence production in Sydney this week, and the film has added award-winning actor Mark Coles Smith and emerging young talent Marlikka Perdrisat to its cast. Coles Smith recently won a Helpmann Award for his work on the Belvoir play A Drover’s Wife. Marlikka Perdrisat is an indigenous…
West End star and English-born Kit Esuruoso will star in the upcoming feature film Akoni alongside a stellar Australian cast including John Brumpton (2016 AACTA Best ActorNominee), Mal Kennard (2016 Silver Logie Nominee), Genna Chanelle Hayes, Pippa Grandison, Rashidi Edward and Simon Elrahi. Akoni tells the story of a Nigerian refugee who survives an attack by…
by Matthew Eeles New images have been revealed for Scott Mannion’s intriguing new film, The Defector. Acting as a concept short for a feature film currently in development, The Defector is set in the days preceding the mysterious disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, as paranoia engulfs the conservative government. Whilst Holt struggles to suppress Red hysteria from within;…
The Menkoff Method Directed by David Parker Written by Zac Gillam Starring Noah Taylor, Lachlan Woods, Jessica Clarke, Catherine McClements, Mal Kennard and Robert Taylor. Synopsis When the sinister HR guru Max Menkoff arrives to improve productivity at Endobank’s Data Processing Centre, introverted Manga nerd David Cork’s world is turned upside down. With Menkoff at the helm, David can’t draw his comics…
