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2013 AACTA AWARD NOMINATIONS
The mega-budget extravagance of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby faces off against the meagre means of Kim Morduant’s The Rocket in what is shaping up as a David and Goliath arm-wrestle at this year’s...
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SNUBS, SURPRISES, ELATION AND DESPAIR, LIVE FROM THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATRE
The films that will battle out the 2014 Oscar ceremony convey a sense that the power brokers amongst Hollywood’s ivory towers are rewarding their own Generation X influences, ie money, fame and...
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2014 AACTA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The most critically divisive Australian film of 2013 has swept the pool at the 2013 AACTA Awards. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby carried momentum from the the luncheon awards function, where his F...
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BYRON BAY PAVES WAY FOR NEXT GEN OZ TALENT
The 2014 Byron Bay International Film Festival (BBIFF) is a mere four days into its 10 day run and already its well-earned reputation as a festival committed to fostering Australian talent has been...
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R.I.P. DAVID HANNAY
Few come close to the unbridled joy that David Hannay felt for cinema. The Australian producer was at the forefront of the local film resurgence in the 1970’s and remained a passionate promoter of...
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THE ROCKET TAKES FEATURE DIRECTOR HONOURS AT PEER-VOTED GALA
The Rocket upped its award season tally further with director Kim Morduant (pictured, below) taking home the top honour at the Australian Director’s Guild annual ceremony, held tonight at the...
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ADELAIDE'S AUTEURS GATHER FOR STATE SECTOR GALA
Adelaide’s iconic Mercury Cinema will roll out the red carpet on May 16 for the annual The South Australian Screen Awards, the prestigious event celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2014. Honouring the...
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REFLECTIONS ON REVELATIONS: AN ORAL HISTORY
They are the men whose shared visions create the most eclectic and challenging collection of cinema on the Australian film festival calendar. Chairman Richard Sowada who, fuelled by the spirit of the...
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THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA'S UNDERGROUND FILM CULTURE
“Is Richard Wolstencroft for real?” pondered a broadsheet journalist as far back as 2004. He is, albeit in the guise of a larger-than-life figure whose ideal reality is often at odds with the accepted...
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IT'LL BE ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT: OSCAR 2015 SNUBS DIVERSITY
The shutout of Martin Luther King drama Selma (pictured, below) across all key categories bar Best Picture has meant 2015 Academy Award nominations are the first since 1998 not to feature an African...
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ZOMBIES, PIRATES AND ME: A DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT.
It has been a heady couple of weeks for Australian filmmaker, Kiah Roache-Turner. Having topped the iTunes charts with his zombie epic Wyrmwood, the debutant filmmaker then learnt that his low-budget...
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CHINESE INDUSTRY DOMINATES REGIONAL KUDOCAST
After a New Year period that saw Chinese cinema attendance top US figures for the first time in history, the Chinese film industry can claim to be on quite a roll having last night swept the 2015 Asian...
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THE OUTBACK AMERICAN SAVING SOVIET SCREEN HISTORY
Over 1000 kilometres west of Sydney, the township of Menindee garners scant attention. The population of around 1000 claim some fame - explorers Burke and Wills camped there during their fateful 1860...
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DOWN UNDER DOLLAR HELPS SECURE SCOTT'S ALIEN EPIC
After a full first day of location scouting, Sir Ridley Scott fronted the Sydney press corps to discuss his blockbuster Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant, which begins a 16 week shoot in April, 2016....
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW, PART 2: AUSTRALIAN CINEMA IN 2015.
During the recent AACTA Awards film sector backslap, the message was loud and clear. “Australian cinema has been reborn!” the presenters continually reassured us, stressing that 2015 was a great year...
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PROYAS CASTS DARK SHADE OVER GODS OF EGYPT DETRACTORS
Gods of Egypt director Alex Proyas has taken aim at the current crop of movie reviewers in the wake of his film’s critical mauling, calling them “diseased vultures”. US critics have been scathing in...
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STARDUST MEMORIES: THE PETER FLYNN INTERVIEW
The digital revolution represents the biggest shift in the exhibition sector since the ‘multiplex boom' of the 1980s. Old-school projection booths, once the beating heart of the cinema-going...
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VIRTUAL HORRORS AT FOREFRONT OF NEW ERA IN STORYTELLING
A sidebar to the Marche du Film distribution marketplace at the Festival de Cannes is NEXT, a gathering of business and tech innovators who are shaping the future of the global film industry....
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FOUNDER OF HANOI FILM HEAVEN REFLECTS ON REEL LEGACY
It has been fourteen years of passionate struggle for Gerald Herman. Hailing from upstate New York, the expat director/producer’s nomadic sense of adventure led him to Vietnam where, in 2002, he...
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AACTA KUDOFEST BECOMES 'THE GIBBO AND HOGES SHOW'
The band of brothers who fought to get Hacksaw Ridge made were rewarded with 9 AACTA trophies in at a red carpet industry soiree in Sydney last night. Returning again and again to the podium, artisans...
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