Ready. Set. The GO! trailer is here

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  The first trailer has dropped for GO! – a new high-octane Australian family film shot in Western Australia. When Jack (William Lodder) and his single mother (Frances O’Connor) move to a small town in Western Australia, he soon…

Web Series Wednesday: Dadmate

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  “My Dad always encouraged my creative spark and allowed me to be myself. Everyone needs someone like that.” Written by Aisling Rose McGrogan (Writer, Director) I started out filmmaking through acting. When I was…

CinefestOZ names Festival Ambassadors

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  CinefestOZ Film Festival has named three young WA-trained actors as Ambassadors to this year’s event, to be held over five-days in Australia’s stunning South West. Sophia Forrest, Alex Williams and Travis Jeffery — all graduates of the Western Australian…

Trailer of the Day: Tabernacle 101

Tabernacle 101 is a supernatural thriller about an atheist who sets out to disprove the afterlife. Through an extreme experiment, instead of disproving the afterlife, he opens a portal between the dimensions, nearly causing the destruction of earth. Tabernacle 101 is written and directed by Colm O’Murchu and stars Mikaela FrancoDavid Hov, Leon Kowalski, Rees Laird and Elly Hiraani…

Cinema Australia Podcast Episode #38 | Steven Vidler

It’s been 22 years since Steven Vidler directed Blackrock, a teenage drama about the rape and murder of a young schoolgirl starring Heath Ledger in his first feature film role. Since them the AFTRS and VCA graduate who also holds a research PhD in screenwriting from Macquarie University, has had a long and successful acting career starring…

Competition: The Nightingale (Now Closed)

Thanks to Transmission Films, we’ve got a bunch of double passes to give away to The Nightingale. Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services…

Review: The Nightingale

The Nightingale Written and Directed by Jennifer Kent Produced by Kristina Ceyton, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Jennifer Kent Starring Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood and Ewen Leslie  “You should feel uncomfortable. That’s the point.”   by Matthew Eeles Let’s cut to the chase. Are you prepared to sit through that…

Retro Review: End Play

Cinema Australia Original Content:  Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  Directed by Tim Burstall Written by Tim Burstall and Russell Braddon Starring George Mallaby, John Waters, Ken Goodlet, Delvene Delaney, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell and Belinda Giblin Written by Gavin Bond Pioneering English born…

Cast and crew dive into Jaggi’s Swimming for Gold

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  Shooting has commenced in Brisbane this week on the Young Adult feature film Swimming for Gold, starring U.S. actor Peyton List (Jessie, Bunk’d) in the lead role. List plays Claire Carpenter, a 17-year-old elite swimmer who is…