Interview: Kasimir Burgess

Like all great documentaries, Franklin goes deep. At its core, it’s a film about the epic seven-year campaign to save Tasmania’s World Heritage-listed Franklin River and the importance of environmental protection, but it also encompasses the intergenerational journey of Oliver Cassidy and his father Mike, while also being a story of Oliver’s personal transformation and self discovery…

Duy Huynh’s How to Thrive will release this October in recognition of mental health month

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. First-time director, Duy Huynh partners with Documentary Australia, Screen Australia, VicScreen and University of Melbourne on documentary How to Thrive: a practical guide to happiness. Premiering this October, documentary How to Thrive: a practical guide to happiness is a heartfelt, hopeful journey which tracks…

Interview: Andrew Leavold

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. If you watch one documentary this year, make it Pub: The Movie. Andrew Leavold’s new film experience takes viewers back in time to an era of Australian pub culture where live music epicentres like St Kilda were wildly energetic and heaving with…

Official trailer, poster and release date revealed for Sissy

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Arcadia has revealed the official trailer, poster and release date for new darkly comedic horror, Sissy. Directed and written by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes and starring Aisha Dee (The Bold Type, Look Both Ways), Barlow (For Now), Emily De Margheriti (Ladies…

AACTA nominated documentary Franklin flows into cinemas next week

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Kasimir Burgess’ deeply moving doco about the environmental campaign that changed Australian history has been nominated in the Best Documentary category at the upcoming AACTA Awards. Things are really flowing right now for the new documentary Franklin. Early reviews have been…

Four new Stan Original Documentaries added to streamer’s Revealed slate

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Here’s a stack of new documentaries being released by Stan which we know Cinema Australia readers will be keen to learn about. Here’s the press release: Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, and Screen Australia today announced four brand new…