The Gold Coast Film Festival will award national screen industry award, the Chauvel Award, to producer Sue Milliken this month. With a career across film and TV stretching from the late 1960’s to today, Milliken is a highly regarded and lauded Australian producer. Most recently, Sue co-wrote and produced the Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black,…
Zombie Bro Written and Directed by May Grehan Produced by Claudia Pickering and May Grehan Starring Lauren Grego, Anthony Taufa, Cooper Flynn, Karina Bracken, Natassija Belle James, Claudia Pickering, Ned Morgan and Keoni Davis They say blood is thicker than water, but does infected zombie blood count? When Francine catches her brother, Teddie, in the act of attack,…
Written and Directed by Jemma van Loenen Produced by Jemma van Loenen and Phill Northwood A documentary feature film on Australian Amateur boxer Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir. Two time Australian Flyweight champion, and current Oceania Bantamweight champion,Bianca aims to be the first Australian to win a World Amateur Boxing Championship. Fighting the legacy of a drug ban, a series…
Adelaide will host the world premiere of new supernatural Australian horror film The School. Shot in Sydney at Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, one of Australia’s original asylums, this claustrophobic and terrifying ghost tale is the feature-length debut of writer and director Ashwood. The School stars Nicholas Hope (Bad Boy Bubby), Megan Drury (Manny Lewis) and Will…
“It was almost as if no one cared about the films, what they meant, what they were about.” Written by Aaron Kamp The journey of making Hidden Light began back in 2013, while I was on my way to Los Angeles for the world premiere of my debut short film, Never Too Late. With plenty…
The first trailer has arrived for Ladies in Black from legendary Australian director Bruce Beresford. Ladies in Black is based on Madeleine St John’s best-selling novel, The Women in Black. Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, shy…
“It is one of the most mysterious and moody films to ever emerge from Australia, and its status seems to have been unfairly overshadowed by Weir’s preceding film.” Written by David Morgan-Brown With the wet weather entering Australia again, now seems like a suitable time to give this forgotten classic of Australian cinema a rewatch…
Kings of Baxter Directed by Jack Yabsley Produced by Claire Yvonne Evans Kings of Baxter follows juvenile justice detainees creating a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The film documents Bell Shakespeare’s landmark education programme in Frank Baxter Juvenile Detention Centre over three months of rehearsal, leading up to the final performance for friends, family and fellow…
Thanks to Label Distribution we have 10 double passes to give away to Clayton Jacobson’s new black comedy, Brothers’ Nest. On a cold morning in the middle of country Victoria, two brothers arrive at the family home intent on murdering their step-father Roger. Terry and Jeff’s motive is simple, killing their step-dad will render their…
Aaron Kamp’s Hidden Light is now available to rent or buy across multiple digital platforms. The Perth-shot drama is a solid debut from Kamp which follows former drug dealer Jovan (Jack Jovcic) who is struggling to find purpose in his new life as a Serbian Orthodox Priest. Having left the drug trade years earlier and trying…
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