Tim Winton’s The Turning is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Discover an extraordinary filmmaking collaboration in TIM WINTON’S THE TURNING. Eighteen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in…
The Darkside actress Shari Sebbens will be holding a Q&A following a screening of Warwick Thornton’s unnerving film as part of The Traveling Film Festival in Darwin. See below for details. THE DARKSIDE THU 6 FEBRUARY 7PM A collection of moving, amusing and bizarre true stories from regular people who have had weird experiences that cannot be…
“I won’t tell you what it’s about but it’s called Jason’s Story. It’s super, super scary. It’s really hard core.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Warwick Thornton’s cheeky chuckle is infectious. You can’t help but feel happy for the boy from Alice Springs who graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and went on to win…
With our cinemas littered with horror reboots full of fright-less protagonists getting horny over bare-boobed bimbos Warwick Thornton’s The Darkside is brimming with the key ingredient those Hollywood cookie cutter same olds are lacking; hair-raising scares. This beautifully shot, hypnotic documentary is an eerie compendium of 13 unnerving stories told by either the original teller…
Triple J’s Hack listeners where treated to a special interview with acclaimed director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton this afternoon about his new flick, The Darkside. Thornton told host Tom Tilly that after Samson & Delilah he spent a long time travelling and made the film because he had some “bar tabs to settle,” and a…
Warwick Thornton’s intriguing film The Darkside will be the only Australian film to screen as part of 2014’s Perth Festival. A special Q&A with the Caméra d’Or winning director will be held on Monday, 24th February 2014 at Summerville. You can buy tickets here. Ghost stories abound in Australia’s Indigenous culture, and The Darkside invites you fireside to…
Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost tales from across Australia and has brought them to life with some of Australia’s most iconic actors being the storytellers. The Darkside gives a black perspective on the afterlife. Performed by Deborah Mailman, Aaron Pedersen, Bryan Brown, Shari Sebbens, Claudia Karvan and…
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