The Screenwave International Film Festival begins next week amongst the beaches and mountains of the pristine Coffs Coast, and having already broken its previous ticket presales record, Festival Directors are now predicting a new attendance record for SWIFF’23 (April 20 – May 5). Husband and wife Festival Directors Dave Horsley and Kate Howat founded Coffs…
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Coles Drop & Lock Continues
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Coles has continued its commitment to help Australians keep the cost of living down for longer, announcing 376 items will be on dropped and locked pricing from today, giving customers more price certainty on some of the biggest brands and popular products across the store for at least 12 weeks. As customers head into winter…
National Pies Headed to a Woolworths Freezer
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The cooler months are here, and to kick off ‘pie season’ in mouth-watering style, some new recruits from Tasmanian Bakeries’ National Pies range are now available in select Woolworths freezers across Australia. The range includes a selection of flavours including the new Chunky Beef, Bacon and Cheese as well as the Classic Beef and popular…
The First of Five Eclipses for Australia
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At 11.29 am AWST on Thursday 20 April 2023 the sun will disappear over Ningaloo. It will reappear a minute later. The rest of Australia will experience a partial eclipse, and a chance to prepare for the big one, a total eclipse over Sydney in 2028. “Our last total solar eclipse was in November 2012,…
Getter Robo Kickstarter Campaign
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BIGONE Inc. have announced the production of a live-action film Getter Robo to be directed by Junya Okabe, based on the original manga series by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. To raise funds for the production of a proof-of-concept trailer, focused on developing advanced visual effects techniques, BIGONE is running a three-week Kickstarter campaign until…
ACT Policing welcome 26 new Constables
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ACT Policing welcomed 26 new constables to the team. A ceremony was held at the Australian Federal Police headquarters in Barton to celebrate their hard work and mark their graduation into the force.During the ceremony, Chief Police Officer for the ACT, Neil Gaughan congratulated the nine women and 17 men for completing the challenging six-month…
Prime Video Acquires Rights to British Nature Documentary Wild Isles
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Prime Video have announced that it has acquired the rights to Wild Isles, the nature documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, in a deal negotiated by distributor Banijay Rights. All episodes will be available on April 21, in time for Earth Day. Wild Isles will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240…
Graham Norton to host LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland
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Prime Video have recently announced that it will launch its first Irish Original series, LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland, which will be hosted by the globally renowned, award-winning presenter Graham Norton. “Graham Norton and Last One Laughing is a match made in heaven,” Dan Grabiner, head of Originals for UK & Northern Europe, Amazon Studios…
$1 Million Raised for Children’s Hospitals in Australia
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Children’s hospitals across Australia have been given a funding boost to deliver innovative and essential programs for sick kids thanks to the Coles Curing Homesickness appeal. In just two weeks, Coles shoppers and team members have rallied in support of sick kids to raise more than $1 million for nine children’s hospitals, foundations and paediatric…
Kevin Sorbo Attached to Star in Snow Moon
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Film Producer, Writer, Alexandria Altman, who created a series of 8 books based on her life story, and the first book of the series called SNOW MOON, copyrighted in 1991, and published in 2015 and was a #1 Amazon Best Selling book in Folklore out selling Grimms Fairytales, has written the screenplay to turn Snow…