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Short Film of the Week: Voice Activated
Steve Anthopolous’ award winning bittersweet comedy is about a florist (Aleks Mikic) with a stutter who is forced to grapple with a voice activated car, on his way to an important delivery. Listen out for a cameo by Sam Neill.
Christmess
… a solid holiday character piece with a lot of heart and an appreciable lack of artifice.
Trailer: Anyone But You
Latest trailer of Will ‘Easy A, Peter Rabbit’ Gluck’s Sydney-shot (oh, really?!) romantic comedy starring Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun Maverick‘s Glen Powell looks far more promising, and we even get glimpses of locals Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths, Joe Davidson and model Charlee Fraser.
Trailer: Prosper
Amen! Hallelujah! Richard Roxburgh looks like he has a role worthy of his talent in this series barely hiding its inspiration, the Hillsong church (and Succession). Rebecca Gibney, Ewen Leslie, Ming-Zhu Hii, Jacob Collins-Levy, Hayley McCarthy, Jordi Webber, Jacek Koman, Andrea Solonge, Brigid Zengeni, Alex Fitzalan, and Alexander D’Souza also star.
SF3’s Gateway for First Nations Stories
In its ninth year, the Smartfone FlickFest, and their embrace of accessible smart phone shot films, continues to offer opportunities for indigenous filmmakers of all ages to tell their stories.
A Savage Christmas
… moves and feels like a Hallmark movie.
Trailer: Unsung Hero
Usually, it’s Americans coming to Australia, but here, we see the inspirational true story of the Smallbones aka For King and Country, who dropped everything in backwater Down Under and travelled to the US to make it in the world’s biggest faith/music industry. Daisy Betts, Kirrilee Berger and Lucas Black star.
Claire Evans: Majoring in Screen Business
One of the founders of recently launched artist studio Junior Major, used a forward-thinking course, Master of Arts Screen: Business (MASB) at the Australian Film Television and Radio School [AFTRS] to road test her intuition that the business had legs.
Natalia Stawyskyj – Breaking the Silence
Premiering at the Sydney Film Festival, All Silent Dogs is an exquisitely beautiful new short film by talented young filmmaker Natalia Stawyskyj.