What’s On [Melbourne]: Coming out drama The Dance will screen at Filmonik Film Night ahead of online release

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Nexus Production Group has announced an international release date for its latest short film, The Dance, via the production company’s YouTube film series Life Improvised – micro glances into life, the love, loss and hope we all find and lose within everyday relationships. …

The 2022 CinefestOZ program is an epic celebration of Australian cinema!

CinefestOZ – Australia’s largest destination film festival – has announced the release of its 2022 program featuring an epic 270 film screenings and events as well as the appointment of award-winning actor, writer, producer and director Richard Roxburgh as Chair of the Jury that will award the prestigious $100,000 Film Prize. Celebrating its 15th year, the…

Interview: Renée Brack

  Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Interview by Matthew Eeles My mum died of cancer in 2008. She was 48 years old, and I was 24 at the time. I could never imagine being asked questions over and over again about my mum. Questions about her…

Indian-language film Maasa a contender for 2022 AACTA Awards

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Maasa has been nominated as a contender for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) 2022 Award for Best Short Film, produced by Australian Indian producer Pradnya Dugal of Jhumka Films, and directed by veteran Bollywood choreographer, Phulawa Khamkar.  The…

MDFF Review: The Power of Activism

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Steven Posvolsky Review by Gavin Bond This passionate environmental and feministic documentary proves to be most timely. On one hand, this multi-faceted doco successfully taps into the current focus on Environmental reform in Australia, (recently illustrated by the emergence…

What’s On [Melbourne]: Where the Water Starts will have its Melbourne premiere at MDFF

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Investigating the destruction of the fragile alpine ecology of Australia’s Snowy Mountains, Where the Water Starts will celebrate it’s Melbourne premiere at the upcoming in-cinema component of the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Richard Swain, Indigenous Ambassador with the Invasive Species Council,…

National Q&A tour announced for heartwarming doc, Everybody’s Oma – See the trailer here!

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Bonsai Films has announced the national cinema release of Everybody’s Oma from August 11 (Victoria from August 25), with a national tour of preview Q&A screenings from July 30. Selected for the Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and CinefestOZ, Everybody’s…

See the new trailer for Del Kathryn Barton’s wildly imaginative Blaze

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. The mesmerising directorial feature debut from fine artist, Del Kathryn Barton, Blaze tells the story of a teenager who processes her trauma by ascending into a fantasy world Barton has created by combining a unique and visionary blend of live action, puppetry and animation.…