We asked a bunch of seventeen year olds if they knew what an emo was and we were met with blank stares. They suggested maybe hipsters would have been better suited as a character subject for a 2016-set high school film. Nevertheless, the teaser trailer for Neil Triffitt’s Emo The Musical looks great and marks…
Jasper Jones, Spin Out, Girl Asleep and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom have been announced as the four finalists vying for Australia’s richest film prize at CinéfestOZ. Now into its third year, the highly coveted $100,000 film prize was established with the aim of pursuing excellence in Australian filmmaking. It is awarded to the…
The first trailer has dropped for Damian Fasolo’s WA film, Broken. Check it out below and let us know your thoughts. A young wife’s mysterious affair sends a husband’s world into a dangerous spiral as he searches for the truth, but when he goes too far and stands to lose his little daughter, he is forced…
The ultimate Aussie adventure is about to take flight. Motorkite Dreaming is a new feature film that follows two amateur daredevils who take a 4000km journey across Outback Australia in second-hand microlights – essentially hang-gliders with lawn mower engines. Along the way, they pass through 20 Aboriginal language nations, learning from these remote communities about the…
Screenwest, via the State government, have announced the recipients who will receive the $750,000 in West Coast Visions funding for 2016-17. One of Screenwest’s largest funds, the program aims to uncover, inspire and develop local talent and skills. The project in receipt of the funding is the feature film, 1%, with Western Australian director, Stephen McCallum, writer Matt Nable and…
“Adventures of a Happy Homeless Man is my first film without any violence. Three years ago, I could never have imagined making a movie without violence.” Dicky Tanuwidjaya’s Adventures of a Happy Homeless Man will hit Sydney’s Chauvel Cinema on July 18. Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles spoke with the Australian filmmaker recently to discuss his original, unique and very funny mockumentary. Interview by…
The countdown to this year’s top Australian screen awards has officially commenced, with the first nominees for the 6th AACTA Awards presented by Presto announced today. Nominees were announced in three categories – Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Short Animation and Best Short Fiction Film. Nominees for Australia’s finest film and television productions of the…
Cooped Up Directed by Kane Guglielmi Written by John Ratchford Produced by Kane Guglielmi Starring Stephen Peacocke, Charles Cottier, Kathryn Beck, Tim Ross, Sam Glissan, Adam Demos and Ray Hadley Why we’re excited No aerial shots or desert landscapes, no over-cast actors and no depressing suburban tales. Cooped Up looks like it’s chock full of genuine belly laughs, bursting with originality…
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, we’re giving away copies of Scare Campaign on DVD. Popular prank TV show, Scare Campaign, has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun. But as we enter a new age of online TV the producers find themselves up against…
Bad Girl Written and Directed by Fin Edquist Starring Samara Weaving, Felicity Price, Benjamin Winspear, Sara West and Liam Graham Secrets and lies will change lives in this pulse-pounding psychological thriller. Sullen, defiant and on probation following her release from juvenile detention, 16-year-old foster child Amy Anderson struggles with her new life in the countryside…
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