Welcome to the very first episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast for 2023. I can’t believe this is the 90th episode, and I couldn’t think of a better guest to celebrate with than esteemed Australian filmmaker, Robert Connolly. I first met Robert back in 2013 when he was in Perth with The Turning. He was my…
Actor, Eric Bana and director, Robert Connolly, have reunited for Force of Nature, the sequel to the 2021 Australian box office hit The Dry. The film is based on the bestselling series by Jane Harper and sees Bana reprise his character, Aaron Falk. Bana will be joined by cast members Anna Torv (Mindhunter) as Alice…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Made Up Stories, Screen Australia and VicScreen today announced that the team behind the box office smash hit and award-winning feature film The Dry return for the feature film adaptation of bestselling author Jane Harper’s Force of Nature, currently shooting in…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to see an early screening of The Dry, and it’s already one of our favourite films of next year. Perth audiences will be treated to a special Q&A screening of The Dry on January 3, that will…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Robert Connelly, The Dry is an Australian crime thriller based on Jane Harper’s bestselling internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning novel. Directed by Robert Connelly, The Dry stars Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Glitch), Keir O’Donnell (Ray Donovan, Fargo) and…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Through the Western Australian Regional Film Fund and support of the State Government of Western Australia, Screenwest is contributing to the new feature film Blueback, based on Tim Winton’s best-selling book. The family film will be produced by Arenamedia and directed…
Filming has begun on the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling novel The Dry. Genevieve O’Reilly (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Glitch), Keir O’Donnell (Ray Donovan, Fargo) and John Polson (Mission: Impossible II, The Sum of Us) join Eric Bana (Munich, Chopper, Dirty John) in the production from Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories.…
Actor Eric Bana (Munich, Romulus, My Father, Chopper) has been cast as the lead role of Aaron Falk in the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling and award-winning novel The Dry, producers Made Up Stories announced today. Robert Connolly (Balibo, Paper Planes, Deep State) is set to direct from a script written by Connolly…
David Wenham’s feature directorial debut Ellipsis will have multiple screenings across the country with some lucky audience treated to a Q&A screening of the film with the man himself. In the middle of a crowded city the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental, chance occurrence sets in motion a…
Acclaimed Australian artists Matthew Sleeth, Emma Magenta and Bruce Gladwin are set to collaborate with screen creatives Maggie Miles, Robert Connolly, Andrew Bovell, Julie Eckersley and Ester Harding on three exciting, bold new projects announced to receive funding in the third and final round of the successful HIVE FUND initiative. An Adelaide Film Festival initiative…
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