A documentary born out of "a collaboration made in heaven" between Sweetshop & Green and Monash University will make its debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival this week.
'Sweet As', the debut feature from Nyul Nyul/Yawuru filmmaker Jub Clerc, is dubbed "The Breakfast Club meets the outback".
"We made a horror film and it's found this wonderful audience. It's definitely unexpected. And I wouldn't even necessarily say that our film is a straight horror film, but obviously as soon as you squash someone's head, it tends to not really fall in any other genre, no matter what the rest of the movie's about."
The main character in Alena Lodkina's sophomore feature 'Petrol' may be a filmmaker of Russian background, but the writer-director insists it's a personal tale, not necessarily an autobiographical one.
Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is set to do national Q&A tour of his documentary 'Everybody's Oma' ahead of its theatrical release August 11 via Bonsai Films.
Visual artist Del Kathryn Barton's feature debut 'Blaze', which combines live-action, puppetry and animation, centres on a teenager who processes her trauma by ascending into a fantasy world.
Melbourne International Film Festival returns to metro cinemas with a bumper program, and 70th anniversary celebrations that include a major retrospective and cinematic homages to the festival from Ivan Sen, Justin Kurzel and Soda Jerk.