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PRESS RELEASE Filmmakers in Western Australia for the CinefestOZ Film Festival's Industry Program - running 4 to 5 September 2025 - will have the opportunity to meet with some of Australia’s, lea…
Granite Highway will have its Australian premiere at CinefestOZ 2025, screening on Monday, 1 September in both Margaret River (6:00pm) and Busselton (7:00pm). Written and directed by Rhys Ellis, the…
PRESS RELEASE CinefestOZ today announced four unique Australian films – including two made in Western Australia (WA) - are in the running to win Australia’s richest $100,000 film prize at the 2025 Ci…
Mark Leonard Winter is a somewhat ubiquitous Australian film and television presence. An excellent character actor who believes firmly in his craft. Taking on a new role as the writer and director of…
Touch is a futuristic short film set ‘five minutes in the future’ which tells the story of Esme (Rebecca Leafe), a woman who is seeking therapy from an android named Theo (Meraj Ahamed). It’s written…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Direct download of this episode is available via this link. On this…
PRESS RELEASE Following rave reviews and sold out screenings at its Sydney Film Festival (SFF) world premiere; ‘Sunflower’ is set to have its highly anticipated Victorian premiere at the Melbourne In…
Powered by JustWatch There’s something completely charming about one of the directors of the TV series Top Gear taking the experiences they learned on the series and applying it to a kids film.…
Filmmaker Ben Lawrence showed an affinity for damaged people with his acclaimed documentary, Ghosthunter, and that empathy for injury and vulnerability carries over to his first fiction feature, Heart…
In Standing Up for Sunny, RJ Mitte stars as Travis, a socially isolated, perennially grumpy, guy living with cerebral palsy. He has a major gripe with the world: the fact that there are other people i…
Coming hot on the heels of Breath and Jasper Jones, and getting the jump on Dirt Music, The Naked Wanderer is the latest West Australian tourism ad campaign masquerading as a film. But, unlike Breath…
At the end of Rachel Ward’s Directors Chair discussion at 2019’s Cinefest Oz, she was asked a question about what advice she would give her younger self. Her response, just like the rest of her talk,…