The 66th Sydney Film Festival program was officially launched today by Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. “This year celebrates a resurgent year of Australian cinema, with an exceptional selection of contemporary Australian stories including 23 World Premieres,” said Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. “From Mirrah Foulkes’ feminist revenge tale Judy & Punch, to…
Backtrack Boys Produced, directed and shot by Catherine Scott Three Aussie boys are on a rocky path towards jail until they meet a rule-breaking jackaroo and join his legendary dog jumping team. Bernie Shakeshaft is a rough talking jackaroo who runs a youth program from a shed on the outskirts of Armidale, NSW. When everyone else…
Madman Entertainment has revealed the trailer and poster for director Ben Lawrence’s first feature length documentary Ghosthunter, hot off the heels of the announcement it will have its world premiere at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival. Ghosthunter follows Jason King, a western Sydney security guard and part-time ghost hunter, who has spent two decades searching…
Lexus Australia and Sydney Film Festival today announced leading Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp will chair the 2018 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship Jury, and the screening date for films made by 2017’s four Lexus Fellows. “The Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship for 2018 will give four Australian filmmakers the support to carry on telling their…
Create NSW is calling on emerging filmmakers with disability to apply for a new Screenability Filmmakers Fund which will support three individual projects with $30,000 as well as appoint an Executive Producer to each production. Applications are sought for filmmaking projects that appeal to a broad audience (with or without disability content), from teams that…
The Go-Betweens: Right Here Directed by Kriv Stenders Written by Kriv Stenders Produced by Joe Weatherstone, Kriv Stenders The intensely passionate, creative and fraught set of relationships that formed one of the most loved bands in Australian rock history is explored in this classy documentary. Director Kriv Stenders uncovers the people who made The Go-Betweens. Conceived in Brisbane…
The Pink House Directed by Sascha Ettinger Epstein Written by Claire Haywood, Sascha Ettinger Epstein Produced by Claire Haywood The story of Kalgoorlie’s last original gold rush brothel, servicing the miners since 1904, through the eyes of the whimsical Madam Carmel, 70, and its longest-serving lady of the night, BJ. Although prostitution is technically illegal in WA, the…
