Following a successful film festival run, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale finally has a trailer ahead ion its August release. The trailer and poster has been released by US distributor IFC Film. There’s no word yet if the Australian poster and trailer from Transmission Films will be the same. Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish…
For those still reeling from Saturday’s shock election result, a new comedy series is here to cleanse your palate and remind us all just how much of a circus modern politics has become. F Off We’re Full (yes, that’s it’s actual title), is a new Aussie satire about a group of young white nationalists who…
Welcome to another episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Stevie Cruz-Martin to discuss the beginnings of her career, her creative relationship with writer, actor and producer Daniel Monks and of course, Pulse. Pulse is the story of a gay disabled teenage boy who is devastated when he is neglected…
From 19th – 30th July 2019 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival will profile an eclectic, diverse and wide ranging collection of documentaries from both Australia and abroad. The final selection is an uncompromising, award-winning and challenging slate of documentaries from the world’s very best film festivals. Nearly half of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival’s total schedule…
Directed by Jeremy Cumpston Written by Hal Cumpston Starring Hal Cumpston, Frederick Du Rietz, Mitzi Ruhlmann, Holly White, Malcolm Kennard, Alan Dukes, Rhys Muldoon and Jeremy Sims A wild ride through the last days of year 12 with our anti-hero Hal alongside his slacker/jock mates. Amongst the hilarious universal teenage stupidity and chaos of the…
Cinema Australia Original Content: by Matthew Eeles First time feature filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven will premiere his new film Sequin in a Blue Room at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Co-written by Van Grinsven and Jory Anast, Sequin in a Blue Room is a stylish coming-of-age drama about Sequin (Conor Leach), a sixteen year old boy…
Director Davo Hardy has dropped the first trailer for his new film The Blood of God. Where there is poverty, there is religion. Where this struggle, there is faith. For Euan Morris, the only child of a working-class widower father, the path to God has been a lifestyle, an unquestionable truth, until his life is changed…
After almost two years, Perth filmmaker and musician Pete Renzullo is ready to premiere his debut feature film, Anticipation. Shot in and around Perth, Anticipation is about Lenny (Glenn Herbert), a solo artist who’s determined to overcome his crippling social anxiety and make a living from playing music. Along the way he is supported by…
With a slew of sales coming out of the Cannes market, the first teaser has dropped for Occupation: Rainfall, director Luke Sparke’s followup to last year’s ambitious and underrated sci-fi adventure film, Occupation. Two years into an intergalactic invasion of earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by…
Madman Entertainment and Palace Cinemas have partnered to announce that school-aged students will be able to see the new film 2040 without charge on opening weekend at Palace Cinema locations around the country*. Directed by and starring Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film), 2040 is a positive and empowering journey to explore what the future could…
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