With four major film and television projects under his belt this year, 2025 is officially shaping up to be the year of Mark Coles Smith. On the small screen, Mark has impressed audiences as journalist Justin Guthrie in the Netflix megahit Apple Cider Vinegar, and once again stepped into the famous customised Akubra of Detective…
CinefestOZ Broome – Western Australia’s First Nations Film Festival – today announced that beloved Australian actor and proud Nyikina man Mark Coles Smith as Ambassador for the inaugural festival presented by Goolarri Media, which kicks off next week 3-6 November in Broome in WA’s beautiful Kimberley region. Fresh from roles in ABC drama Savage River and soon…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A brand new trailer has dropped for Jub Clerc’s anticipated debut feature film, Sweet As, ahead of the film’s upcoming screenings at MIFF and CinefestOZ. Sweet As is the first Australian feature written and directed by a Western Australian Indigenous filmmaker, and…
The trailer launch of Genna Chanelle Hayes’ highly-anticipated debut feature film Akoni marks the beginning of the film’s cinema journey in Australia, New Zealand and West Africa. Akoni follows the journey of a homeless Nigerian refugee after he is forced to flee conflict in his homeland and integrate into the West. With the number of…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Screenwest has announce that Mystery Road: Origin has kicked off filming in Kalgoorlie-Boulder this week, with AACTA award-nominated Broome actor Mark Coles Smith (KGB, Last Cab to Darwin, Pawno, Will Australia Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?) taking over the reigns from Aaron Pederson, starring…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Occupation: Rainfall, the spectacular new Australian alien invasion blockbuster, produced entirely independently, will release in Australian cinemas on 28 January 2021. The film will open across more than 120 screens, reaching a wide audience of sci-fi adventure lovers and will be distributed…
KGB, a comedy web series created by Western Australian indigenous filmmaker brothers, Luke and Dan Riches, will premiere on ABC iview on Sunday 7 July and nightly on ABC Comedy from Monday 8 July to Friday 12 July during NAIDOC Week 2019. Set in Perth’s notorious KGB (Koondoola, Girrawheen, Balga), the series follows two rookie…
The first season for Genna Chanelle Hayes’ new series Sisters has been released online via Youtube. Starring Tariro Mavondo, Gemma Forsyth, Marlikka Perdrisat, Genna Chanelle Hayes, Mark Coles Smith, Martin Sacks, Travis Jeffrey, Natasha Wanganeen and Denise Richards, Sisters explores the deep friendship between four unique Australian twenty-something girls as they navigate modern society and…
Screenwest, Screen Australia and ABC Indigenous have announce KGB, a comedy web series created by Western Australian indigenous filmmaker brothers, Luke and Dan Riches, has been greenlit by the ABC thanks to Screenwest’s Indigenous Online Initiative – Originate. Set in Perth’s notorious KGB (Koondoola, Girrawheen, Balga), the series follows two rookie detectives, tough guy Jack…
Genna Chanelle Hayes’ Unifying New Series Empowers Women The first teaser has been released for Genna Chanelle Hayes’ new series Sisters. Sisters explores the deep friendship between four unique Australian twenty-something girls as they navigate modern society and evolve through love, loss, cultural differences, sexuality, faith and trauma. The series stars Tariro Mavondo, Gemma Forsyth,…
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