Mushroom Studios has revealed the official trailer and poster for Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story. The rollicking story, 50 years in the making, about Michael Gudinski’s remarkable career and profound impact he had on Australian music and culture will receive its world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival on August 10 and hit cinemas nationwide…
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) is set to star in the upcoming supernatural action feature, Fight for Your Life. The supernatural gladiator film will be directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation: Rainfall, Bring Him To Me). Sparke developed the original story and Tom Evans (Bring Him To Me) collaborated on the script. Sparke Films will produce the feature…
Behind the scenes documentary, The Making of Galup VR Experience, a virtual reality film about a massacre at Lake Monger by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger with an oral history from Doolann-Leisha Eatts will premiering on SBS on 30th May for Reconciliation Week. This National Reconciliation Week, The Making of Galup VR Experience invites SBS…
Writer, director, co-producer, director of photography, editor and composer Ivan Sen and actor Simon Baker join the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast to discuss their masterful new film, Limbo. In Limbo, Simon Baker plays Travis, a jaded detective who arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder…
The Endangered Generation?, Celeste Geer’s sweeping documentary which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, begins a series of Q&A screenings on June 4, in celebration of the UN’s World Environment Day, ahead of its cinema release later that week. The Endangered Generation? takes its audience on a hopeful journey to reconnect with our environment and…
HALO Films has revealed the first trailer for Frank and Frank. The new philosophical dramedy, also known as Frank and Frank (or the Valley and the Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts), follows Frank 1 (Myles Pollard), a faith and finance guru who heads to the country to present at a regional…
A solitary figure at an empty bar, CIA clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr John Flemington, is planning to visit his girlfriend in Mexico when he is pressured by mysterious underground operatives to join them on a secret mission. Here, Bonding director, writer, producer and star, Luke Rex Psy.D. writes exclusively for Cinema Australia about the…
by Matthew Eeles Melbourne filmmaker John Balazs has called action on his new mind-bending psychological horror, Freelance, a follow-up to the director’s 2021 bloody and brutal revenge thriller, Rage. Written by New York-based screenwriter Mike Gerbino and based on his short film of the same name, Freelance follows Katie, a down-on-her-luck video editor who takes…
Here at Cinema Australia, we often cite Davo Hardy as being one of the busiest independent filmmakers around. His latest streak of productivity continues to uphold that assessment, as he presently has a short film, his sixth feature and a small TV cameo on the go, all at once. Earlier this year, Davo dropped the surprise short doco,…
Capricorn Film Festival, in partnership with Screen Queensland, proudly present Filmmaker Workshop Gladstone, a short course educational opportunity for the Gladstone region’s emerging and practising film artists presented by Queensland film industry professional and Gladstone resident, Wezley Pitt. Have you ever wanted to learn how to write a short story for screen? Or how to…
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