Animal Kingdom is being tipped to take home the Best Supporting Actress category.

One of the few films with an Academy Award nomination in a major category that remains relatively unknown, Australian drama Animal Kingdom finds itself with a very timely UK release, hitting our screens on 25th February, just two days before the glitz and glamour of the Oscars.

Gone are the days of long winded
narration and commentary

Out of the world of Commercial Design , fine Art and Antiques comes a documentary filmmaker who is turning heads. Scott Wurth is an Australian filmmaker who trained in the USA, graduating from the Art Centre College Of Design, Pasadena California with a  Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987.

“The 15th Station takes an insider’s
look at the Filipino Crucifixions”

Who are these men? Why do they indulge in such extreme behaviour? Scott Wurth’s film ‘The 15th Station” goes behind the clichés and, for the first time, allows the men to speak for themselves and to explain their “panatas”; the pledges to God they make to atone for past sins, to give thanks for favours, or to pray for help.

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Links highlighting some of the hottest Australian Film-making today!

From short documentaries to full length feature films, links highlighting some of the emerging talent in Australia today, as well as other relevant links of interest.

All the latest festival news on the Australian Film-making Scene.

Warwick Thornton has been waiting patiently for about 20 years to make a feature film.

Warwick was a teenage DJ at CAAMA and he used to watch the video unit vehicle drive off to exotic places and was forced to hear all the stories when they came back. When a media traineeship came up he jumped at the chance and hasn’t looked back.