CinefestOZ Film Festival announced today that award winning producer, creator and founder of Kindling Productions, Imogen Banks (Offspring, Fake, Puberty Blues), and Fremantle Media’s Emmy and AACTA-nominated producer, Brett Popplewell (Bay of Fires, Heartbreak High, Wentworth), will headline the 2025 CinefestOZ Industry Program (4-5 September) in Busselton, Western Australia. Also joining the Industry Program is South African Film…
Film and cultural icons in this country don’t get any bigger than David Gulpilil – one of Australia’s most loved and respected actors. His career began with his debut in Walkabout (1971), and this seemingly unstoppable force went on to star in many classics, including Storm Boy (1976), Crocodile Dundee (1986), The Tracker (2002), Ten…
From the AACTA Award-Winning indie production company Breathless Films (Birdeater, Lonesome, The Longest Weekend) comes a new feature film written and directed by duo Josh Mullins and Ulysses Oliver (Love Road). With Kate Cornish (Heartbreak High, Optics) as DOP, and Flora Hadaway as Production Designer. It is currently being filmed in the luscious and ancient Colo Valley (Hawkesbury…
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced that its Opening Night film will be the much-anticipated Australian premiere of Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman, John Lithgow and Aud Mason-Hyde. AFF kicks off with Jimpa on Wednesday October 15 with the Opening Night screening at Adelaide’s historic Capri theatre, to be followed by AFF’s famously fabulous…
South Australia’s flagship feature film development initiative, Film Lab: New Voices, has greenlit its third feature film for production – The Debt, an exciting new horror led by South Australian First Nations filmmakers. Co-written by Yankunytjatjara writer Pearl Berry and Piri Eddy, directed by Johanis Lyons-Reid and produced by Yankunytjatjara producer Lilla Berry, The Debt will premiere at Adelaide Film Festival in 2026. Here’s the…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by writer, director and producer Adrian Ortega to discuss the making of his new film, Westgate – a poetic exploration of family, culture, and the weight of past traumas. Set in 1999 in the shadows of the Westgate Bridge collapse,…
Filmmakers have been using the time-loop genre as a narrative device for decades, but none have come close to matching the nostalgic adoration of Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray as a depressed and cynical weatherman forced to relive a bad day. In Australia, we’ve had our own share of time-related films, from the…
Pasa Faho, the anticipated feature debut from Igbo-Australian filmmaker, writer and visual artist Kalu Oji, will receive its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August where it is the first film at this year’s festival to sell out across all its screenings. Audience in Western Australia will have the opportunity to see…
Bronte Pictures, the prolific Australian feature film production house behind films such as Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, The Fabulous 4 and soon-to-be-released Beast of War, has announced an ambitious expansion plan under its new Bronte Studios banner. Under the new Studios’ structure, Michelle Krumm, former Miramax, The Weinstein Company executive and indie Producer joins the company as…
Charmaine Murray and Yasmin Kassim’s scripted feature Prawn Curry Christmas has been selected as the 2025 recipient of Screenwest’s coveted West Coast Visions, supported by $1.5 million. The richest filmmaking initiative in Australia for emerging filmmakers, West Coast Visions is designed to uncover, inspire and develop talented Western Australian filmmakers with distinctive visions for a…
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