You won't see Marvel films or 'Star Wars' playing at Melbourne's Cinema Nova, something co-founder Natalie Miller jokes is "either clever or stupid, I'm not sure which". For 30 years, the Carlton cinema has carved a niche by sticking to its brand of arthouse cinema programming, and is today the largest independent cinema in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australians in Film and Screen Australia have revealed the six participants for this year's Untapped development lab, drawing from nearly 400 entries.
Dutch violinist André Rieu very nearly took centre stage on another slow weekend for the Australian box office, with the screening of his 2022 Maastricht Concert falling just short of overtaking 'Bullet Train' to claim the number one position.
Ash Gray's 'The Urn' and Olly Sindle's documentary 'Ink Train' were among the short films to take home prizes at the Sony Catchlight Film Festival Awards on Saturday evening.
Roadshow Films will release Jub Clerc's 'Sweet As' in Australia and New Zealand next year after acquiring the distribution rights to Nyul Nyul/Yawuru director's debut feature.
Goran Stolevski's sophomore feature 'Of An Age' has impressed in the west, winning the $100,000 CinefestOZ film prize on Saturday evening.
Writer-director Olivia Martin-McGuire's 'Freedom Swimmer' has collected yet another award, this time the top gong in CinefestOz's Short Film Competition.
Experimental film and video art platform Prototype has announced a collaboration with English auteur Peter Strickland, commissioning his new short 'Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp)'.