Cherry Hands Media

29/09/2025

We were also proud to work with directors, Sal Balharrie and Daniel MacLean on LikeMyBrother. If you're an AACTA member, please get your feature doco votes in before midnight tonight. https://tv.aacta.org/collection/feature-documentaries

03/09/2025

Animators? Get on it:

ASIFA chapters are looking for Australian animated short films to consider for IAD - International Animation Day! DM us at Animation Alliance Australia to receive submission details and password. Deadline 1st October 2025.

29/08/2025

Thanks for the write-up Filmink.

CASTING CALL for CROWD EXTRAS for feature film THUNDER, shooting the final climactic boxing fight scene in mid-October in Melbourne. Read the story, complete an EXPRESSION OF INTEREST to come along and help Luke George Styles and the Thunder Productions team make some THUNDER!!

Apply to be an extra: https://tinyurl.com/ThunderExtras

Or donate (over $2 is tax deductible) to the crowdfunding campaign on Australian Cultural Fund: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn000008bJWGMA2/thunder-feature-film-production

Local actor-turned-filmmaker LUKE STYLES (Swift Street, Counter Play) is laying it all on the line. Over the last six months, he’s been slogging away filming his first independent feature film, THUNDER. And now as the final climax scene looms, he needs your help.

03/07/2025

Pop this date in your diary and see you at WIFT VIC's Christmas in July, Wed 23 July from 6.30pm at the fabulous Victorian Pride Centre. That's just up the road for us. https://events.humanitix.com/wiftmas-2025/tickets

'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY 🌟
Mark your calendars and book your tickets, because WIFTmas is back on Wednesday, 23rd of July!

Our Christmas in July event is your chance to meet and be merry with fellow practitioners in film, tv and media - across all guilds, roles and sectors.

Not only could you meet a new friend or future collaborator, you could be walking home with some sweet, sweet presents 🎁 thanks to our generous sponsors 👀

🗓 Wednesday, 23rd of July
⏰ 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm
📍 Victorian Pride Centre, St Kilda
🎟 On sale NOW via https://events.humanitix.com/wiftmas-2025.
$40 General Admission. $20 for WIFT Vic members.

WIFT Vic's Christmas in July is proudly supported by Pork Store Productions.

23/06/2025

Thanks everyone, for coming along on Friday night to The Ransom Letter: Theatrical Playreading & 1920's Speakeasy Night by Marty MonStar, at The Crypt Ballarat.

For those who wanted to read the full program - that's here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGqBc-93M4/7rVy0Hcovtd5oA1KpaxsFw/view

Keep in touch with us. Our crowdfunding page will launch in the next couple of days via the Australian Cultural Fund.

Presented by
Marty MonStar Productions and Cherry Hands Media.

Pictured: Barry Kay as Jack Archer.
Photograph by H. Long Nguyen Tran.

13/06/2025

15 minute countdown.... From 4pm today, for 24hrs you can nab yourself half-price (2 for 1) tickets to see The Ransom Letter: Theatrical Playreading & 1920's Speakeasy Night next week at The Crypt Ballarat.

Prizes for best dressed, 1920's music, cocktails, giveaways and a theatrical reading of THE RANSOM LETTER with a sensationally talented cast. Way too much fun to miss.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ransom-letter-theatrical-playreading-1920s-speakeasy-night-tickets-1390541419819

From 4pm today, for 24hrs you can nab yourself half-price (2 for 1) tickets to see The Ransom Letter: Theatrical Playreading & 1920's Speakeasy Night next week at The Crypt Ballarat.

Prizes for best dressed, 1920's music, cocktails, giveaways and a theatrical reading of THE RANSOM LETTER with a sensationally talented cast. Way too much fun to miss.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ransom-letter-theatrical-playreading-1920s-speakeasy-night-tickets-1390541419819

21/04/2025

"I urge you to see this amazing photographic exhibition..... brilliant..... indescribably sedate, quiet, thoughtful..... Just amazing! Don't miss it!"

Sharing this incredible review in WeekendNotes Melbourne about F**K LOSS KISS: exhibition of documentary photographs by Mark Chew - which closes in just a few more days. Don't miss it. Free midday-7pm Tue, Wed, Thu this week, downstairs at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane.

12/04/2025

It's the final stretch of fundraising for Cinema Viscera's Australian Cultural Fund BOOST campaign for RELEASE - where Creative Australia has already doubled the $5k they've raised. Amazing. Can you help them over the line with the final $4,450?

Donate here - a bit over two weeks to go:
https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000Fk9sTMAR/release-short-film-proof-of-concept

Here's what they shared about the look and feel for the film they're wanting to make: RELEASE. It's going to be gorgeous, but of course, they want to not only pay their cast and crew, they also need funds to some equipment hire, post production and film festival entry fees. At Cherry Hands Media, we're proud to support Perri & Paul as they pull this project together. Thanks also to The Backlot Studios for their support and all those who've donated so far.

"In our forthcoming short film, RELEASE, the use of light will be vital, in focusing on, and drawing attention to, small but telling details… then, in the absence of light, crafting a growing darkness to create the feeling of increasing danger. The idea of shifting shadows is something we are keen to explore using shadow to create a sense of transformation, dread, and menace. And we’ll be playing with the frustrating intangibility of memory, caught in brief and, sometimes, hard-to-make-out images that slowly come together, as the story progresses, to build to a clearer picture.

If you would like to help us to realise the vision we have for our new short film RELEASE, here’s the link to our ACF Campaign:
https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000Fk9sTMAR/release-short-film-proof-of-concept

🎞📽⚡️
Images taken from:

1. You Were Never Really Here (2017)
2. Sharp Objects (2018)
3. Pulse (2001)
4. Prisoners (2013)
5. Certain Women (2016)"

27/03/2025

Just passing on for the Aussie Sci-Fi writers out there - deadline 3 April
The John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing

Calling all Australian Screenwriters! ✏️

The John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing is open for entries at the AWG.

Funded by a bequest from the late Australian film critic John Hinde, the award recognises the best sci-fi scripts across feature film, television, web series, audio and interactive media. Winning writers will share in a $10,000 prize pool.

There are two categories available to enter:
Produced Category - for projects that completed production between 1 January and 31 December 2024.
Unproduced Category - for scripts that remain unproduced for the duration of the competition.

Entries close at 5pm (AEDT) Wednesday 2 April.

For more information, see the AWG website: https://awg.com.au/the-john-hinde-award-for-excellence-in-science-fiction-writing

24/03/2025

What a great night we all had, celebrating Cinema Viscera's 16th birthday! And launch of the campaign for their new short film RELEASE.

They've already reached 40% of their overall target of $10k - and they only need to raise another $865 over the next 35 days to receive the full $5,000 BOOST, as part of the Australian Cultural Fund / Creative Australia program.

Do you have a few spare dollars to help them over the line?
Read about their campaign and donate here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000Fk9sTMAR/release-short-film-proof-of-concept

20/03/2025

Great to see Pez and Paul featured in this Filmink article. Their birthday celebration event takes place tonight at The Backlot Studios (DM us asap if you're keen to come along) - it's free, but there's a catch - can you donate the price of a drink or five to their fundraising campaign? They're part of the BOOST program to make an ambitious short called RELEASE, as a proof of concept for a feature - thanks to the Australian Cultural Fund and Creative Australia so if you can donate $100, they'll get $200. Such a great initiative. OK. Now to make a 2009 music playlist for tonight's festivities. Did we mention there'll be cupcakes? Filmink article (we may or may not have had a hand in writing): https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/cinema-viscera-enters-a-new-era

Donate here ($2 or more tax deductible): https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000Fk9sTMAR/release-short-film-proof-of-concept

Melbourne-based ‘Indie-as-hell’ fi lmmaking duo, CINEMA VISCERA is entering a new era – thanks to a little BOOST from Creative Australia and the Australian Cultural Fund.