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African Film Festival
0 Comments. 1,039 Views. Posted 12 Apr 2012 @ 10:47am.
  African cinema has been a site of political resistance, historical reflection and cultural celebration for over fifty years now, and thanks to the inaugural African Film Festival Australia, we’re about to get a fresh taste of the complex flavours bubbling within the world’s second largest continent. Festival coordinator Samira Ibrahim sheds some light on what audiences can expect of a... Read More
Paradise Lost
0 Comments. 727 Views. Posted 5 Feb 2012 @ 3:35pm.
As of next month, our good friends at ACMI will present the acclaimed documentary trilogy, Paradise Lost.  The event comes as multi-award winning filmmaker, Joe Berlinger, visits Melbourne for the Australian premiere of his third and final instalment to the trilogy, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. The HBO series documents the gripping account of a small-town justice system operating for a... Read More
The Woman
0 Comments. 1,364 Views. Posted 19 Aug 2011 @ 5:28pm.
The Woman is a tough, confronting yet engrossing horror film that eschews the usual formula of serial killers, buckets of blood and gore, and screaming virgins running and dying. The film delves into darker territory and deals with themes of domestic violence, violence against women, and the nasty ways in which humans can treat others. The Woman has been written by cult horror director Lucky... Read More
Dark Rooms and Dreamscapes
0 Comments. 2,252 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 11:18am.
Anyone who sticks their hands into the mix bag of goodies playing at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival will most definitely be in for a treat. For those of you who choose the rocky road experience over predictable vanilla, avant-garde film screening Dark Rooms and Dreamscapes: The Films of Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller will take you there. Peter Tscherkassky is the DJ... Read More
Findie Helps Scriptwriters Make Shit Happen
2 Comments. 2,751 Views. Posted 2 Jun 2011 @ 5:39pm.
It's not easy being a writer. So many hours spent working hard on something... and then what? How do you make it real? After all the hard work, how are you going to turn your dream into a reality? Matt Cohen has just launched his website, Findie, which helps scriptwriters find teams to create films by providing a place for them to share content, ideas and to generally network. So if you're... Read More
Music For Mad Bastards feat. Alex Lloyd and The Pigram Brothers
0 Comments. 3,376 Views. Posted 30 May 2011 @ 11:18am.
Mad Bastards is a powerful, honest and unique Australian film. A raw depiction of the brutal and beautiful aspects of Indigenous life, the film portrays a father's journey of transformation as he searches for his estranged son. Set in the stunning landscapes of the Kimberley region in Western Australia, Mad Bastards proved such a poignant and universally-resounding film that it was accepted into... Read More
Raw Nerve Winners Announced
0 Comments. 2,712 Views. Posted 6 May 2011 @ 2:48pm.
Open Channel, Victoria's Screen Resource Organisation has announced that this year, three short films will be produced in Victoria under the Raw Nerve production initiative in 2011 including; 'Bruce Lee Played Badminton Too,' 'Phone Call,' and 'Switch.' Raw Nerve is a national film production initiative supported by Screen Australia. In Victoria it is managed by Open Channel. This year Raw Nerve... Read More
Catfish
0 Comments. 1,366 Views. Posted 25 Feb 2011 @ 3:05pm.
  This low budget, fly on the wall documentary is the antithesis of David Fincher’s award winning drama The Social Network, which chronicled the origins of social networking site Facebook. This fascinating and thought provoking cinema verite-style documentary looks at the consequences and pitfalls of the explosion in social networking sites and the whole cyber... Read More
Melbourne International Student Film Festival
0 Comments. 2,390 Views. Posted 17 Feb 2011 @ 9:26am.
It’s Melbourne International Student Film Festival (MISFF)! Bringing together films from students from all over the world, to Melbourne’s fantastic High Street, Northcote.   We spoke with filmmaker Kathryn Goldie whose film, Duck Soup will be screened and Justin Olmstead, creator of A Short Length of Hose. Justin turned to filmmaking... Read More
Meet The Makers Of Hit Facebook Doco
1 Comments. 1,494 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
Cinema Nova presents the star and makers of the hit Facebook documentary Catfish on Friday January 21.   This fascinating film caused a stir at the Sundance Film Festival, and was called "unbelievable" by Empire Magazine.   A riveting reality thriller, Catfish has been a topic of discussion since its release overseas.   Join host Clem Bastow (The Vine, The Big Issue,... Read More
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