Australia Independent Film Festival is back!

The Australia Independent Film Festival will return next month, and the festival’s organisers tell Cinema Australia this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever before. The Brisbane-based festival will run over two days in October at Metro Arts West End. Join filmmakers and film lovers for one of Queensland’s biggest annual celebrations of…

Cinema Australia Podcast #68 | Erik Thomson

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Erik Thomson is one of my favourite actors. I’ve enjoyed most of Erik’s work, with Packed to the Rafters, Aftertaste and The Furnace being among my favourites.   Thomson is one of Australia’s most beloved actors, becoming…

Occupation filmmaker Luke Sparke developing Axis of Time trilogy

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Sparke Films has secured the television rights to the Axis of Time trilogy, the best-selling novels by John Birmingham. The epic drama television series, tentatively titled Weapons of Choice after the first book in the series, is in late development with…

Exclusive Clip: The Bowraville Murders

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia readers have been treated to an exclusive clip from, The Bowraville Murders – a new documentary tracing the epic David vs Goliath battle for justice waged by the families of three Aboriginal children murdered in a small rural town…

New Clip! Jason Isaacs, Jake Ryan and Levi Miller in Streamline

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. READ OUR REVIEW HERE READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH TASIA ZALAR HERE Tyson Wade Johnston’s Streamline will release in select cinemas around Australia from today. The rest of the country will be able to enjoy the experience when it commences streaming on…

Shooting wraps on Jordon Prince-Wright’s World War I epic Before Dawn

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Prince-Wright Productions has wrapped principal photography in Western Australia on World War I epic, Before Dawn.  Before Dawn will bring to the big screen the untold story of some of Australia’s greatest military victories. The script, inspired by the real-life diary…

Death is coming in the new trailer for Chris Sun’s The Possessed

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. A frightening new trailer has been released for Chris Sun’s anticipated horror, The Possessed. Jacob Chandler is just an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift. The epitome of the accidental exorcist, Jacob and his nephew Liam have forged a career clearing…

Nitram filmmakers will use CinefestOZ Film Prize to support local filmmakers

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Justin Kurzel’s tense Martin Bryant drama Nitram has won the CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize which the film’s producers say will be used to “propel new Australian stories and support emerging and established local filmmakers.” The filmmakers for Nitram were awarded the honour by…