It’s an all too familiar story: Australian films open in a handful of cinemas with minimal marketing and publicity and audiences don’t go because they don’t know where or when these films are playing.
David Cook’s debut feature 'Heart of the Man', produced by Bronte Pictures and New Dream Productions, will premiere at Brisbane's New Farm Cinemas February 28, with further screenings planned around the country via Screen Inc.
In writer-director Tyson Wade Johnson's debut feature 'Streamline', a prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet (Levi Miller) self-destructs after his father (Jason Isaacs) is released from prison. Inside of the pool he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow.
Matthew Holmes' 'The Cost' is the story of two ordinary blokes, David (Jordan Fraser-Tumble) and Aaron (Damon Hunter) who abduct a convicted felon (Kevin Dee) who committed a horrific crime many years before.
Featuring voice contributions from Luke Hemsworth, Kelly Slater, and Mick Fanning, animated comedy 'The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe' picks up 10 years since a deadly virus has wiped out a lot of the global population.
In the Roache-Turner brothers' Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, soldier Rhys (Luke McKenzie) lives in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland.
The Roache-Turner brothers' 'Wyrmwood: Apocalypse' has been added to the line-up of Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
"The best way to get people to go to the cinema is to embrace the point of difference from television, enhance the cinematic scale of the work and create narrative experiences that are immersive." - Robert Connolly