With Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, director Daniel Nettheim and Finn Woodlock.

With director Patrick Hughes
and star Ryan Kwanten.
Hosted by Paul Harris.

With director Richard Gray and actors
Alex Dimitriades and Angus Sampson.
Hosted by Thomas Caldwell.

Aussie stars Joel Edgerton and Radha Mitchell visited Cinema Nova to discuss their film The Waiting City. They were joined by director Claire McCarthy and producer Jamie Hilton, for a Q&A hosted by reporter/broadcaster Tracee Huchison. Set against the epic backdrop of Kolkata, The Waiting City is an intimate, complex love story of discovery and transformation. Now showing at Cinema Nova.

More information on WAITING CITY here

Cinema Nova hosted the first Melbourne screening of one of the year's most popular films, ANIMAL KINGDOM, followed by a Q&A with writer/director David Michôd and AFI award-winning stars of the film Ben Mendelsohn, Luke Ford and Jacki Weaver. Moderated by Carol Van Opstal from Screenthemes on 3MBS. Winner of the World Cinema Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, ANIMAL KINGDOM is a cinematic epic of an orphaned young man trying to stay straight, as he is welcomed into a family of criminals.

Animal Kingdom is now showing.

More information on ANIMAL KINGDOM here

Acclaimed Australian director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, Little Women, Oscar & Lucinda) returned home to celebrate the release of her incredible documentary LOVE, LUST AND LIES with a Q&A at Cinema Nova, hosted by Peter Krausz (Chair of the Australian Film Critics Association).

The film is the fifth in a landmark series that began over three decades ago focusing on the lives of three lively, working-class Adelaide women.

More information on LOVE, LUST & LIES here

I LOVE YOU TOO – Q&A with writer Peter Helliar and director Daina Reid. Recorded live at Cinema Nova on Wednesday May 5, 2010
As part of Cinema Nova’s Meet The Filmaker events, comedian Peter Helliar made a special appearance to discuss his feature film screenwriting debut – the romantic comedy I LOVE YOU TOO. Peter was joined by director Daina Reid and the event was moderated by Triple J’s Paul Verhoeven. I LOVE YOU TOO is a tale of arrested development and Generation X’s awkward handling of love and romance.

More information on I LOVE YOU TOO here

As part of Cinema Nova's Meet the Filmmaker series, Geena Davis and director Andrew Lancaster joined us for a pre-screening Q&A with Cinema Autopsy’s Thomas Caldwell, followed by the comedic-drama ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.

More on ACCIDENTS HAPPEN here

The director of acclaimed documentaries including
THE THIN BLUE LINE and FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL, Morris won the 2003 Academy Award for his documentary THE FOG OF WAR.

Here he speaks live to The Sunday Age's Tom Ryan and a cinema audience about his new film examining the Abu Ghraib prison scandal -STANDARD OPERATING PROCDURE.

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
opened in Melbourne, exclusively at Cinema Nova.

More about STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE website

Link to Study guide from ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media)