Award-winning First Nations filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy wraps this week in regional South Australia, with major production funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department alongside Fremantle and Gretel Packer’s Longbridge Nominees, who join producers Kath Shelper for Scarlett Pictures; and Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton, Georgie Pym and Coco Francini for Dirty…
In 2017, Tristan Barr launched his feature filmmaking career by co-directing, co-writing, co-producing and co-starring in Watch the Sunset. The fast-paced one-shot action thriller was a hit on the festival circuit around the world and was quickly picked up by Australian streamer Stan where the film is still available to watch. With Barr’s Watch the…
An all-inclusive film series made by people living with disability, about people living with disability, is shining a light on the value of diversity in the workforce. Fearless Films Season 4 features six people who are engaged in meaningful employment – be it entrepreneurial or within a business – normalising disability in the workforce and…
Cheeky comedy-drama How to Please a Woman scooped a pleasing four awards (out of six nominations) at the 2022 WA Screen Culture Awards held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville – including Innovation in Narrative Feature Film with a budget over $1m; Outstanding Achievement in Editing – Merlin Eden; Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Hayley…
A new trailer and release date has been revealed for John V. Soto’s (The Gateway, The Reckoning, Needle) riveting new thriller, Avarice. Kate (Gillian Alexy), an Olympic level archer and her investment banker husband, Ash (Luke Ford), embark on a much-needed vacation with their teenage daughter, Sarah, at a remote forest house. Kate and Ash have…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. It gives me great pleasure to bring you this deep dive interview with filmmaker Matthew Holmes. I’ve been following Matthew’s work since the release of The Legend of Ben Hall back in 2016. Since then I’ve eagerly awaited Matthew’s followup films. His passion and tenacity makes…
Yesterday I published my interview with Seriously Red writer, creator and star Krew Boylan, so who better to follow it up with today than Krew’s co-star, Daniel Webber. I’ve admired Daniel’s work since first seeing him in Rhys Graham’s 2013 drama, Galore, in which his acting ability was on full display. In this rowdy and…
Celebrating the achievement, innovation and ambition of our local industry, the WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs) embrace all forms from new, established and emerging screen practices. Now in its third year the WASCAs will be held on Sunday 4 December at Luna Cinemas Leederville hosted by comedian Joe White. “Everyone involved in the WASCAs including…
A delegation of Australian screen industry heavyweights arrived at Parliament House yesterday as proud campaign ambassadors of the Make It Australian campaign, where they, alongside a large number of screen industry leaders, converged to lobby politicians to support our industry’s future. After a successful national launch of a reimagined Make It Australian Campaign in June 2022, SPA,…
Following a successful festival run, Slovenian-Australian writer and director Sara Kern’s feature debut Moja Vesna will release in cinemas December 8, 2022 After wowing festival audiences around the world with her poetic, visually stunning short films Good Luck, Orlo! and Vesna Goodbye, Sara Kern has made a strikingly assured jump to feature films with Moja…
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