Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles caught up with actor, writer, producer, director, Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe and AFI winner Rachel Griffiths to discuss her new film, Ride Like a Girl, based on the inspirational true story of Melbourne Cup winning Jockey, Michelle Payne. As a little girl, Michelle Payne dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne…
Transmission Films has dropped a new trailer for Rachel Griffiths’ Michelle Payne biopic Ride Like A Girl. As a little girl, Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup — horse-racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by single father Paddy (Sam Neill). She leaves school…
As a little girl, Michelle Payne dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup — horse-racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by single father Paddy. She leaves school at 15 to become a jockey and after early failures she finds her feet, but a family tragedy, followed by her…
2019 is set to be a huge year for Australian cinema with so many great films set for release. Here’s nine films sitting high on our must-see list for the year. It should be noted that our list from last year featured a bunch of films that weren’t released including The Nightingale, Little Monsters and…
A Cut Above When Cinema Australia caught up with Jill Bilcock the Australian film editing legend was in the middle of cutting Mystify: Michael Hutchence, Richard Lowenstein’s documentary about troubled INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. “Right now I’m looking at the scrawlings of Michael,” Bilcock told Cinema Australia. “I’m reading all his lyrics, and things he wrote…
The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) has announce its 2018 festival program. Taking place from 22 to 25 February at venues across Melbourne’s CBD including ACMI Federation Square, Hoyts Melbourne Central and RMIT University, MWFF celebrates and supports the work of women screen practitioners across all disciplines in the industry, including directors, writers, producers,…
A brand new trailer has dropped for Shane Abbess’ The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One and it looks incredible. One of the film’s leads, Kellan Lutz, will travel to Australia to promote the upcoming sci-fi film which has its Gala premiere at the 2017 Gold Coast Film Festival on Friday, 21 April. During his visit Lutz will also…
