Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. New obsession documentary Batman and Me will have its premiere at the virtual Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in July. Directed by Michael Wayne, Batman and Me lifts the veil on a fandom rarely seen in Australia. Wayne cleverly amplifies…
Kriv Stenders has proved he’s the busiest man working in Australian film, releasing two new film trailers in as many days. Last night we were treated to the new trailer for Brock: Over the Top, a documentary about Australian racing legend, Peter Brock. Today, Stenders dropped the trailer for the highly-anticipated Slim & I which recently…
Seemingly out of nowhere, the first trailer has dropped for new Australian documentary, Brock: Over the Top. Directed by Kriv Stenders, Brock: Over the Top is a feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australia’s greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human…
Wirtten and Directed by Kathy Drayton Produced by Tom Zubrycki Sydney filmmaker Kathy Drayton muses on what the future holds for her musician daughter amidst the threats of climate change and mass extinction. The flying foxes that soar across Sydney each evening face many challenges: impacted by heatwaves, evicted from urban parklands, struggling to survive…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. In this episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, host Matthew Eeles is joined by award-winning director, animator and visual artist Isabel Peppard and award-winning horror, comedy, documentary and porn filmmaker Josie Hess. These two very…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Thanks to our friends at Defiant Screen Entertainment, we’ve got a bunch of copies of Escape and Evasion up for grabs. A lone soldier returns home from a mission in Myanmar with traumatic PTSD. Trying to save his relationship…
PHORIA, an award winning immersive technology studio, today announced the worldwide online release of ecosphere, their groundbreaking VR nature documentary series produced in partnership with Facebook’s Oculus, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Silverback Films. The series is narrated by Emmy Award winning actress and WWF Ambassador, Anna Friel, and will be available…
Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. New half hour documentary, Our Law, may be the most timely documentary screening at this month’s Sydney Film Festival. With Black Lives Matter protests happening both at home and overseas, Our Law is a great example of…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. PRESS RELEASE Screen Australia has announced $2.1 million of production funding for 12 projects funded through the Producer Program and two through the Commissioned Program. Projects include SHANE, a feature documentary about cricketer Shane Warne, and Woven Threads –…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films and festivals by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. With the easing of Covid19 restrictions it’s lights, camera and action for the Australia Independent Film Festival Join filmmakers and film lovers this September at the iconic Elizabeth Cinemas in the heart of the Brisbane CBD for one of…
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