Thanks to Bonsai Films, we have 10 double passes to give away to A Savage Christmas, a film from director Madeleine Dyer opening nationally in cinemas on 15th November. For the Savage family, Christmas day is always held at their decadent regional Queenslander Brenda Savage, a resentful and ageing-in-denial ‘WAG’ wife, and James Savage Snr,…
Stephen King’s Willa, from his collection titled Just After Sunset, is set to begin filming in NSW in 2024 thanks to The Dollar Baby Program and Kickstarter. Award-winning writer and director Warren Duncan from Sydney has taken on what he describes as the most ambitious Stephen King Dollar Baby crowd-funding campaign to ever exist. While the…
The Musical Mind… A Portrait In Process is a vivid glimpse into the private worlds and elite musical processes of four superstar musicians, brought together through their connection with the Academy Award-nominated movie Shine and its director Scott Hicks. We meet international rock star Daniel Johns, one of Australia’s greatest musical talents. Accessing his subconscious, he…
In Monolith, the always impressive Lily Sullivan plays a disgraced journalist who turns to podcasting to try and rebuild her career, but her rush to generate headlines soon uncovers a strange artefact, an alien conspiracy, and the lies at the heart of her own story. Sullivan’s transition from the Hollywood blockbuster Evil Dead Rise to…
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment and Luke Sparke’s Sparke Films announce the AFM market premiere, initial sales and distribution news, exclusive first look imagery, video and a special promo premiere of the brand new horror film, Scurry. The movie stars Jamie Costa (Kenobi: A Star Wars Story, Bring Him To Me) and Emalia (Paper Dolls).…
Following the success of A Sunburnt Christmas, Christmas on the Farm and Christmas Ransom, the Stan Original Film Jones Family Christmas continues Stan’s tradition as the home of Australian Original Christmas features. With Ella Scott Lynch, Max McKenna, Neil Melville and Nicholas Denton joining Heather Mitchell, the warm-hearted Stan Original Film Jones Family Christmas will…
Thanks to Transmission Films, we have 10 double passes to give away to The Royal Hotel, a film from director Kitty Davis starring Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick, opening nationally in cinemas on November 23. Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an…
Counting down to the premiere of his sixth feature film, The Switchblade Sisterhood, writer and director Davo Hardy has shared an exclusive clip from the film with Cinema Australia. Set in the present day, the film follows the emotional journey of half-siblings, as their mixed family reels from the revelation of a long-buried secret. Meanwhile,…
Screenwest and Screen Australia have announced that Daisy Ridley (Star Wars sequel trilogy) is set to star in Zak Hilditch’s new survival-thriller film, We Bury the Dead, to be filmed in Western Australia. We Bury the Dead is a terrifying yet moving story about grief, loss and the undead, written and to be directed by…
Production begins next week in Adelaide on the feature film With or Without You, an inspirational mother-daughter story of finding love and safety from tough beginnings – inspired by lived experience from SA director Kelly Schilling. The project is being made with principal production funding from Screen Australia and South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), and…
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