Following a mega-successful film festival run, including screenings at CinefestOZ, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, and St Kilda Film Festival, Riley Sugars’ AACTA-nominated short film, Hatchback, is now available to watch right here! Hatchback is a black comedy shot in Melbourne during early mid 2021, which centres around two men attempting to dispose of a…
Australian screen royalty Sigrid Thornton will join fellow cast members and filmmakers of the camp black comedy thriller, Slant on a screening tour of metropolitan and regional cinemas around Australia in late July and early August. Best Australian Feature winner at 2022’s Monsterfest, where it had its World Premiere in Melbourne, Slant is an ensemble…
Writer, director and producer Hassibullah Kushkaki joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss the story behind the making of his independently produced, action thriller gem, Rampage Electra, which was shot throughout many Perth locations including the historic Fremantle Prison where a majority of the film was shot. Rampage Electra follows an…
Freedom is Beautiful Directed by Angus McDonald Story by Angus McDonald and Nolan Verheij Produced by Angus McDonald, Mélita Toscan Du Plantier A documentary feature about captivity, freedom, music and art featuring Kurdish refugees Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh “The interweaving of the visual and audio elements of the documentary combines to create an extraordinary…
Following photo reveals, a poster drop and a short teaser, a full trailer has finally dropped for Force of Nature: The Dry 2. In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, when five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen…
Jaggi Entertainment is underway on the new festive romance Designing Christmas, now shooting at locations across Brisbane. The feature film stars Susie Abromeit (Love In Bloom, When Love Springs) and Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: Vengeance, This Little Love of Mine) in the lead roles, with Jo-Anne Brechin (One Perfect Match, When Love Springs) directing. The movie…
Brenda Matthews’ first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family. Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life. But the traumas of her past do not lie quietly buried. So, she goes searching for the foster…
Dig Deeper Directed by Mark Street Produced by Fiona Cochrane Four divergent Aboriginal artists use their personal stories and historical injustice as a driving force to break through and create internationally recognised urban art. “Ben’s painting I Wonder! asks what it was like for one side of his family, as colonizers, to be in part…
A special fundraising screening of Alfred Pek’s humanitarian documentary, Freedom Street, will be held in Perth in support of Centre for Asylum seekers, Refugees And Detainees during Refugee Week. Freedom Street is the harrowing story of Joniad, Ashfaq and Azizah, three refugees who have been stuck in Makassar, Indonesia for several years as a result…
To celebrate Pride Month, The Backlot Studios will host two screenings of Melbourne LGBTQ+ series, Single, Out. Written, directed and produced by Lee Galea, Single, Out follows Adam whose first sexual experience has changed his life is forever. Throughout all of this he has to work and pursue his art as well as come to…
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