by Matthew Eeles Farewell 2017, you’ve been a great year for Australian films. Here are our top five Australian films of the year with the winner of the Cinema Australia 2017 Best Film Award announced in number one position. This list does not include documentaries and also includes a film which played at film festivals…
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,…
Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer) has assembled an incredible Australian and international cast for Ladies in Black, the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 best-selling novel, The Women in Black. The film will star Julia Ormond (Mad Men) as Magda Szombatheli, the charming…
by Matthew Eeles Causeway Films has recently received funding from Film Victoria and Screen Australia for its new film, Buoyancy. Buoyancy will be shot entirely on location in Cambodia and Thailand and follows the journey of an innocent boy who is enslaved on a Thai fishing trawler. The boy soon realises his only hope of freedom…
by Matthew Eeles Ahead of the film’s availability on Netflix later in the year, audiences will be treated to the world premiere of Cargo at the Adelaide Film Festival in October. The highly-anticipated Australian zombie film is directed by Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling and based on the filmmakers’ Tropfest winning short film of the…
This year’s Gold Coast Film Festival boasts an incredible lineup of new Australian films including Ben Young’s highly anticipated Perth-shot thriller, Hounds of Love. You can find the complete list of Australian films screening at this year’s festival below. The 15th annual Gold Coast Film Festival will screen 32 feature films from 13 countries,…
A powerful new trailer has dropped for Tori Garrett’s highly anticipated Australian film, Don’t Tell boasting an all-star cast including Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Rachel Griffiths, Sara West, Jacqueline McKenzie, Gyton Grantley, Susie Porter, Martin Sacks and Robert Taylor. Don’t Tell is the story of a young woman who fought back after enduring sexual abuse at a prestigious private…
Looking like a born again Living like a heretic Listening to Arthur Lee records Making all your friends feel so guilty About their cynicism And the rest of their generation Not even the government are gonna stop you now But are you ready to be heartbroken? Lloyd Cole “Our TV industry grew on the quota…
WA filmmaker, Ben Young and his team have managed to make one minute and forty seconds of footage look truly disturbing in our first look at new Australian feature film, Hounds of Love. Hounds of Love also looks like a return to form for Stephen Curry, whose last feature film was Save Your Legs! in 2012…
It has been announced that Ben Young’s highly anticipated Western Australian film, Hounds of Love, will have its world premiere at the prestigious Venice Days, a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival. “I’m so thrilled that all the wonderful and talented cast and crew, who took a risk on this small West Australian film, are been…
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