This year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is set to return to cinemas, promising a blockbuster experience for documentary enthusiasts. Running online from July 1st to 31st, 2024, and at Cinema Nova from July 17th to 31st, 2024, the festival will showcase an impressive lineup of over 60 Australian short-form and feature-length documentaries. Celebrating its dedication…
Madman Entertainment has launched the teaser trailer for Memoir of a Snail, the latest film from Academy Award®-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet). Featuring a voice cast of top talent from Australia and France including Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Tony Armstrong and Jacki…
Filmed on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kid Snow tells the story of a down-and-out Irish fighter named Kid Snow, who gets a shot at redemption in a rematch against the man who beat him ten years ago. Directed by Paul Goldman, the film is set in 1971 and follows a rowdy traveling tent-boxing…
The highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cultural event returns this August. Proudly screening in Naarm and surrounds from 8-25 August, MIFF brings together some of the most talked about films of the year, hotly anticipated hits from the…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. There is an outstanding group of local filmmakers currently producing an unparalleled, visually stunning, and surreal style of Australian cinema. Sometimes these films are so dreamlike that, hours later, you’ll question whether you actually watched a movie or if it was all just a dream.…
Will Howarth and Tom McKeith’s In Vitro is a masterstroke in nerve-shredding cinema. Its timely, unsettling and thrilling narrative will burrow deep into your mind and stay there for days. This new Australian film, which is set to premiere at the upcoming Sydney Film Festival, follows Layla (played by co-writer Talia Zucker) and her husband…
Writer and director Luke Agius and team have wrapped production on their heartfelt coming-of-age comedy drama, The Undesirables, and have recently released a first-look video to go along with it. The film is set against the backdrop of the vibrant underground Western Sydney music scene, shooting on location at both Blacktown’s SWR 99.9 FM radio…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. I’m excited to present this very special interview with Travis Jeffery, one of my favourite Australian actors whose work I have admired for many years. Travis is best known for his roles in Gallipoli, Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Danger Close: The Battle…
Following this week’s MS Australia partnership announcement, Bronte Pictures has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming romantic drama, Take My Hand, which is set for a national cinema release on August 29, distributed by Rialto Distribution. Starring Radha Mitchell, Adam Demos, and Bart Edwards, Take My Hand is a romantic drama inspired by the true…
In this charming and heartwarming Aussie-mation, Laura and her kooky sloth family move to the big city with their prized family recipe book and a rusted old food truck – but will they adapt to life in the fast lane?The Sloth Lane, from Brisbane-based production company, Like A Photon Creative, opens in cinemas on July…
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