Melbourne Film Festival Cancels In-Person Screenings as City’s Lockdown Is Extended

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefControversial fact-based Australian drama “Nitram” won the first prize this weekend at the CinefestOz film festival in West Australia. Worth A$100,000 ($73,000) the award is one of the richest in cinema.The film documents the build-up to a mass murder in Tasmania and its production was opposed by some community groups.

Isla Fisher is stepping out for the 2021 Cinefest OZ Film Festival!

Isla Fisher is looking pretty in pink!

Courtney Barnett has shared a cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico‘s ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’.

Iggy Azalea, 31, is making it abundantly clear that she is not romantically involved with Tristan Thompson, 30. After rumors floated online that the Australian rapper and the NBA star slept together, Iggy vehemently denied even so much as knowing Tristan with a series of tweets she shared on Sunday, Aug. 22. “Very weird fake news making the rounds about me dating a man I’ve literally never met a DAY in my life…. Like….  Y’all are really that bored?!?!” Iggy wrote on Twitter. 

Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.The school he founded was a unique experiment in inclusiveness for the war-ravaged nation — with orphans and street kids in the student body, it sought to bring a measure of joy back to Kabul.

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“One in a Million” singer on her way to becoming a certified movie star — having already gone up against Jet Li in the action hit “Romeo Must Die” — but after long days of filming “Queen” in Melbourne, Australia, at night she was also recording her third album hot on the heels of her first No. 1 single, 2000’s “Try Again.” “We all tripped off of that.

Olivia Newton-John has revealed she is missing her relatives back home in Melbourne. The 72-year-old, who resides in Santa Barbara with her husband John Barnes, has been unable to see some of her loved ones due to the ongoing lockdown restrictions in Australia."I have a lot of family in Melbourne.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorFreeform has canceled the Josh Thomas comedy “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” after two seasons.The quirky Australian auteur starred as a young man who is suddenly tasked with raising his two half-sisters after the death of their father. Thomas confirmed Tuesday in a tweet that the series would not be back for a third season.“Freeform has been a dream to work with — so cool and open and sincerely progressive,” Thomas wrote.

Australian producer James M. Vernon is leading the charge for a new ten sound stage studio in the country.

PAX Australia 2021 has been cancelled for a second year in a row due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The event’s organisers announced the news on the official PAX website yesterday (August 9): “It is with a heavy heart that today we announce the postponement of PAX Aus 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian producer-distributor Arcadia, whose recent credits include Netflix pic 2067 with Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten, has made two hires and revealed its upcoming distribution and development slates.

Cody Simpson is sharing some “food for thought.”

Home and Away star Lynne McGranger has revealed the strict Covid measures the soap has taken to be able to keep the cameras rolling during Australia's strict lockdown. Most of the country is now back under restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus, including Sydney where Lynne lives, but the Irene Roberts star explained how she and the cast were managing to stay at work.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe 2021 edition of the Sydney Film Festival in Australia has been postponed again and is now expected to take place in November. The move follows a new lockdown in Sydney caused by a COVID-19 resurgence.“In light of the Sydney lockdown extension announced by the NSW Government last week, Sydney Film Festival will postpone the 68th edition of the Festival until 3-14 November 2021.

popular ITV show were trying to arrange it so that the show could return to its natural home in Australia this season. But sources have conceded that this will once again be "too tricky" so the show will return to Gwrych Castle - as Mirror Online reports.