Kaleidoscope Film Distribution secures international rights for Allan Brady and Tristram Baumber’s Site Unseen

Bad Rev Films has announced an international sales and distribution partnership with Kaleidoscope Film Distribution for the company’s debut feature film Site Unseen. Kaleidoscope, the London-based company behind Icon Film Distribution, will handle worldwide sales and distribution outside Australia and New Zealand, and will take the elevated found footage horror-satire to the American Film Market…

▶️ Now Streaming! Greta Nash’s Dodger

GGG Films’ latest short film, Dodger is now available to stream. Dodger is a grounded dystopian drama set in a near-future wartime Australia in which conscription has been reintroduced. It follows a young woman, Vic, who must convince her friend Sam to help her get pregnant in order to avoid military service. The film was inspired…

Documentary Holding Fire reveals indigenous climate leadership with world-changing outcomes

Officially launched at the Australia Pavilion at COP31, the concept trailer for new Australian feature documentary Holding Fire reveals the incredible fire management practices being brought back by Indigenous Australians. Evolved over decades, Indigenous ranger groups in northern Australia’s remote Arnhem Land combine ancient knowledge and modern technology to deliver sophisticated landscape scale fire management.…

▶️ Now Streaming! Nic McRobbie’s Flowers

A backyard experiment with a mind altering tea made from flowers results in a whole lot more than expected in Nic McRobbie’s new short film, Flowers. “Flowers is a film born from necessity, based on experience and shot in my backyard,” McRobbie tells Cinema Australia. “The result is five minutes of fun and a lifetime…

Lights, camera, belonging: Bus Stop Films opens 2027 enrolments and brings PLACES to Brisbane

Australia’s leading inclusive filmmaking organisation invites young people with intellectual disability or autism to find their creative home in 15 locations nationally, as Boss Cat heads to cinemas. Enrolments are now open for Bus Stop Films’ 2027 Accessible Filmmaking Program, offering young people with intellectual disability or autism the chance to build friendships, develop real…

Richard E. Williams’ independent horror feature Dead Eyes is now available via VOD

Dead Eyes, the Australian horror feature shot entirely in first-person POV, is now available to watch via AppleTV through Umbrella Entertainment. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brisbane filmmaker Richard E. Williams, the 81-minute feature was independently produced in South East Queensland. Told entirely through its protagonist’s perspective, the film follows a search for a…

Down the Bunny Rabbit hole with James Branson

Getting a low-budget independent Australian film made is one thing. Getting people to actually see it is another. Finding the right distributor can be a long, frustrating and often bewildering journey, particularly for filmmakers working without big budgets or industry connections. In this article, Bunny Rabbit filmmaker James Branson takes us down the rabbit hole,…