Broke director Heath Davis has announced the cast of his new film Book Week which will start filming across the Blue Mountains in January. After spending the past year engaging locals in fundraising and creative workshops, and developing the script with Screen Australia, Davis and his team are ready to call action. “It’s another micro…
The first trailer has finally dropped for Simon Baker’s highly anticipated new Australian film, Breath. Check it out below and let us know what you think. Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer…
Next Gen Short Film Festival is back at The Backlot Perth in February 2018 as part of Fringe World. This award-winning festival celebrates short films made by emerging WA filmmakers. Next Gen is an event for emerging filmmakers that regularly screens short films on the big screen at The Backlot Perth and provides an opportunity…
Council Written and Directed by Hayden Fortescue Produced by James Pentecost, Gabrielle Cole and Hayden Fortescue Starring Liam Graham, Nicola Bartlett, Adam T. Perkins, Simon Arblaster, Mario Rouse and Daniel James A short film set at an indeterminate point in the future where overpopulation is a serious danger and must be managed by a panel…
IT’S BACK! Which film will join Love is Now, Holding the Man and The Legend of Ben Hall as the winner of the Cinema Australia 2017 Audience Award? Voting for the Cinema Australia 2017 Audience Award is now open! You can find your voting slip below. This is your chance to vote for your favourite…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with director Glenn Triggs about his new Australian film, The Comet Kids. Set in 1950s America, The Comet Kids follows five small towners, Lucas, Claudia, Tricks, Inertia and Guns, as they head out on the adventure of a lifetime to find a piece…
Producers of new Australian film The BBQ have announced the world premiere screening and BBQ after-party in Albury-Wodonga on Sunday, January 14, 2018. Albury’s heritage-listed and state-of-the-art Regent Cinemas will roll out the Red Carpet for stars Shane Jacobson, Magda Szubanski, Julia Zemiro, Manu Feildel and local discovery Freddy Simpson, followed by a BBQ street festival…
A 2K digital restoration of Digby Duncan’s 1980’s documentary Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters will screen at next year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival. Recently restored by the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters is the story of the very first Mardi Gras from those who were there on the night of the…
RELATED ARTICLES: Interview with Bentley Dean AAACTA today announced acclaimed filmmaking collaborators Martin Butler and Bentley Dean as this year’s recipients of the Byron Kennedy Award. The Byron Kennedy Award will be presented to the two-man film crew at the 7th AACTA Awards presented by Foxtel on Wednesday 6 December at The Star Event Centre…
Indigo Lake will have it’s Melbourne premiere next month following sold out sessions in Sydney, Canberra and Cannes. Martin Simpson’s noir thriller stars Miranda O’Hare, Marin Mimica and Andrew Cutcliffe. Celebrated artist Jack Zeffa is hired by nightclub owner Bill Kazak to paint a portrait of his beautiful but troubled wife Ruby. As Jack paints her, he…
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