Chasing Asylum an Australian Revelation

Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the…

Revelation launch new short film competition

Revelation Perth International Film Festival is joining forces with the Department of Local Government and Communities and Screenwest to raise awareness and challenge misconceptions about ageing as part of a new short film competition, Life In Pictures. With the endorsement of the World Health Organisation and the International Federation on Ageing as a way of challenging…

Celebrating 20 years of Revelation Perth International Film Festival

Revelation Perth International Film Festival will celebrate its 20thanniversary in 2017 and has officially announced its dates as 6-19 July. Revelation Festival Director Richard Sowada said the event had quite humble beginnings but was now a mainstay of the WA arts calendar. Revelation commenced in 1997 in a basement backroom in Perth’s Greenwich Club with one person, two…

Lake Mungo announced for next Australian Revelations

Australia has consistently produced genre films of an extraordinarily high quality – Wolf Creek, Road Games, Mad Max and more recently Boys in the Trees. Nestled right there in the middle is Joel Anderson’s excellent and spooky tale Lake Mungo which is set to screen as part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival’s Australian Revelations Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming…

Perth premiere announced for Hotel Coolgardie

New Australian documentary, Hotel Coolgardie will be having its Perth premiere next month as part of Australian Revelations – a celebrations of Australian film presented by Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia. After screenings at the Sydney Film Festival and the internationally regarded Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs, Hotel Coolgardie comes to town…

6 things you never knew about The Club

Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film – past present and future – through a program of monthly screenings. We’d just be positively un-Australian if we didn’t pay a tip of the hat to the footy finals. As our tribute to the great Australian game…

Revelation Perth International Film Festival announces Call for Entries

Filmmakers from across the globe are being invited to enter their work for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in 2017. Revelation is regarded as one of Australia’s most exciting independent film festivals and will run from 6 – 19 July 2017 in Perth. Revelation Director Richard Sowada said the search was now on for unique, signature-driven works from…

Cinema Australia Podcast Episode #13: Grant Scicluna and Thom Green discuss Downriver

In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with director Grant Scicluna and actor Thom Green about their new Australian film, Downriver. Grant Scicluna’s acclaimed Australian drama Downriver will have its WA premiere at this month’s Australian Revelations event in Perth. Revelation Perth International Film Festival in association with Cinema Australia proudly present a celebration of Australian film…

Trailer of the Day: A Night of Horror

A Night of Horror A Night of Horror – Sydney’s genre festival and one-time Revelation guests ­– unleash their first anthology feature film, showcasing the suitably horrifying talents of Enzo Tedeschi, Bossi Baker, Rebecca Thomson, Justin Harding, Evan Randall Green, Carmen Falk, Goran Spoljaric, Matthew Goodrich, Nicholas Colla and Daniel Daperis. The filmmakers whose work is presented here…

Introducing the WA Screen Awards Young Filmmaker of the Year nominees

FTI have announced the 2016 nominees for the 28th Annual West Australian Screen Awards (WASAs) Young Filmmaker of the Year award. Briege Whitehead, Jess Black, Hayden Fortescue and Jordon Prince-Wright are all up for the gong. Briege Whitehead Briege is an experienced director and producer, specialising in interactive. She directed two episodes of the Your Call interactive series, is currently directing the interactive design for TV…