This month’s Australian Revelations, presented by Revelation Perth International Film Festival, celebrates the late, great John Clark in the classic piece of Australian cinema. Sam Neill and Zoe Carides stars alongside Clark in this story where the road to love is never smooth and where a strange trip down cemetery lane gives us one of…
2016 saw another great year for Australian films in terms of quality. Cinema Australia was lucky enough to catch a lot of great films from this year and next via cinema, home release, preview screeners and film festivals. Here are our Top 5 for 2016 including the winner of the Cinema Australia 2016 Best Film…
Dead Calm Directed by Phillip Noyce Written by Terry Hayes Produced by Terry Hayes, George Miller and Doug Mitchell Starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rob Mulinar, Joshua Tilden and George Shevtsov A suspense thriller about a husband and wife, recovering from a personal tragedy, who encounter a stranger while cruising their boat in…
A full list of nominations have been announced for the 6th AACTA Awards. It’s no surprise Mel Gibson’s brutal and brilliant war epic, Hacksaw Ridge, leads the charge with a whopping 13 nominations followed closely by Simon Stone’s The Daughter (10), Rosemary Myers’ Girl Asleep (7), and arguably the best Australian films of the year,…
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) today announced the feature films in competition for this year’s AACTA Awards – Australia’s highest screen acknowledgement. AACTA also today launched the 6th AACTA Awards presented by Presto | Official Screenings Program, a four- week program that brings Australia’s leading screen professionals together with screen fans…
Thanks to Madman Entertainment, Cinema Australia are giving away three copies of Michael Petroni’s Backtrack starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill. Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which…
Evil Angels (1988) Written by David Morgan-Brown The death of baby Azaria Chamberlain was one of those heart-wrenching news stories that captured the nation during a large part of the early ‘80s, a relatively small news story that ballooned into a national sensation heard around the world due to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the controversial…
The daughter of a real estate agent father and a primary school teacher mother, Gillian Armstrong has had an admirable and highly celebrated career as a filmmaker both at home and overseas. Having started off making short films with the likes of Ruth Cracknell and TV actress Elizabeth Crosby, Armstrong launched her feature film career with My…
CinéfestOZ, Australia’s premier destination film festival, has announced that award-winning Australian feature film and documentary director Gillian Armstrong has accepted the role of Jury Chair for the 2016 Festival. Armstrong is one of Australia’s most successful and respected filmmakers. Her feature film directorial debut, My Brilliant Career, adapted from the breakthrough Miles Franklin novel, was a huge success both here…
New Australian psychological thriller, Backtrack will screen exclusively for one-week across select Palace Cinemas from 16-22 June. The strictly limited one-week cinema release will be followed by digital and disc releases on August 3, a non-traditional pattern designed to make the film available to a broader audience across all channels without delay. Producer Jamie Hilton said, “We’re excited to…
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