Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia. Following a disruptive 2020, this year’s film festival season is in full swing! Revelation Perth International Film Festival is about to kick off in Perth. Sydney Film Festival recently gave audiences a sneak peak at its 2021 program. CinefestOZ is gearing…
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has today revealed the first suite of films that will shape its 2019 program. This year’s festival will open with the world premiere of the much-anticipated documentary The Australian Dream — written by Walkley award-winning Australian journalist Stan Grant. Grant’s moving work is a powerful exploration of race, identity and…
Celebrating its 67th year, The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has today unveiled its 2018 program. Featuring 254 feature films, 120 shorts and 19 virtual reality experiences, the festival will include 27world premieres and 168 Australian premieres over 18 action-packed days of cinema. Here’s your complete list of Australian feature films screening at MIFF. For…
We asked a bunch of seventeen year olds if they knew what an emo was and we were met with blank stares. They suggested maybe hipsters would have been better suited as a character subject for a 2016-set high school film. Nevertheless, the teaser trailer for Neil Triffitt’s Emo The Musical looks great and marks…
Pawno is a character driven film about change, hope and identity. Within a day, an eclectic ensemble intersect as lives are examined and motives explored. At its heart lies a simple love story, yet love is rarely simple. An aging pawn shop in Footscray is the pulse for an assortment of people attempting to survive, thrive…
The Melbourne International Film Festival revealed a sneak peak of its 2015 program today and it’s got the Cinema Australia team very excited. Some highlights of the program include Grant Scicluna’s Downriver, Neil Armfield’s highly anticipated Holding the Man, and short film The Nice House, following 2015 Australian of the Year and domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty. The…
The State Government of Victoria has promised a $3.8 million four-year renewal of the Melbourne International Film Festival MIFF Premiere Fund, which provides strategic minority co-financing to new Australian films that then go on to premiere at MIFF. “The MIFF Premiere Fund’s continuation is important for MIFF, audiences, local filmmakers, and the State’s creative economy,” said…
Just after being announced as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival a teaser trailer has dropped for Stephen Lance’s intriguing My Mistress. “What starts as a beautiful and strangely innocent affair between a vulnerable teenage romantic and a French S&M mistress soon becomes more dangerous.” You can find out more about the film at http://www.mymistressmovie.com
As reported earlier on this website Kriv Stenders’ Kill Me Three Times was to screen as part of the Melbourne International Film Festivals Centrepiece Galla. Tony Ayre’s Cut Snake will now be screen in it’s place while the premiere of Kill Me Three Times will screen as part of MIFF’s Premiere Showcase, a regional travelling…
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