CinefestOZ announces stellar Industry Program for 2019 festival 

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  Panels on innovation, demand distribution and the future of storytelling, along with headline speakers including Sony Pictures’ Glenn Gainor (pictured) and award-winning director Rachel Ward, are among the highlights of the CinefestOZ Film Festival’s 2019 Industry Program.…

Signal received! The first trailer has arrived for QUANTA

Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  A trailer has arrived for Nathan Dalton’s new Australian sci-fi feature film, QUANTA. Written and directed by Dalton, QUANTA follows a physicist whose life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego…

Exclusive Clip! Cerulean Blue

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to bring you more Australian film coverage by making a donation to Cinema Australia below.  by Matthew Eeles Cerulean Blue will celebrate its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival next month. Writer, producer and director Adrian Ortega says the idea for his engaging two-hander came directly from…

MDFF Exclusive: Looby

Cinema Australia Original Content: Article author: Sean Murphy, Producer “Tell him I said get fucked.” The response came as a surprise – why was this person so worked up when asked about Looby?  To me, Australian painter Keith Looby was a gentle old man; a softly-spoken family friend whiling away his days in a backyard…

Retro Review: Money Movers

Cinema Australia Original Content: Directed by Bruce Beresford Written by Bruce Beresford and Devon Minchin Starring Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Candy Raymond, Jeanie Drynan and Bryan Brown. An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest…

Michael Caton joins the Capricorn Film Festival as Festival Patron

Capricorn Film Festival has announced that screen and television legend, Michael Caton will join the team as Festival Parton. After five years of operating Central Queensland’s premiere film arts event, founder Luke Graham said he is very proud to have the Australian icon as their Festival Patron for the Capricorn Film Festival moving forward. “We…

A disturbing new trailer has arrived for Kim Farrant’s Angel of Mine

Kim Farrant’s Strangerland followup looks seriously disturbing. Noomi Rapace, Luke Evans, Yvonne Strahovski and Richard Roxburgh star in the Melbourne-shot-and-set second feature from Strangerland’s Kim Farrant, as scripted by Oscar-nominated Lion screenwriter Luke Davies. Seven years after the death of her daughter, Lizzie locks eyes on a sight she thought she’d never see again: a girl,…