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The film The Dinner Party will screen at Dendy Cinemas in Canberra, after a successful debut at the National Film and Sound Archive.

“Trying to get this film into cinemas has been a hard push, mainly because we are unknown filmmakers, from a city [Canberra] that has seen little if any film come out of it and therefore an unknown market, but due to increasing demand for people to see it on the big screen, it will start screening at Dendy Canberra starting on February 21,” ” producer Brendan Sloane told Encore.

The fim’s national release through PackScreen was cancelled last year.

“After approaching many cinemas in Australia and not releasing as planned in 2010, I hooked up with Accent for a DVD release but held onto the cinema rights as I always believed this film would launch in Canberra,” explained Sloane. “The Nfsa gave me a premiere and a Saturday matinee; they...

PackScreen director Peter Castaldi says the company is “regrouping” and although he did pull the October 7 release of The Dinner Party, he did not “leave it at the altar” as stated by the film’s producer on Twitter.

“I certainly offered to carry the film over to 2011 and his director Scott Murden was fully supportive of that offer. However Brendan Sloane wanted to handle the release himself and get it out this year….so no, he wasn’t left at the altar…..I was!” Castaldi told Encore.

“This product is very time consuming and expensive – no poster or key art , usually trailers that don’t work, no Epk or DVD extras, etc, so it requires a lot of lead work. Without releasing The Dinner Party (which frankly, no one else will touch) I have lost money, real dollars, and a lot of time. The same can be said of every...

Dark, contemporary thriller The Dinner Party, starring Lara Cox of Australian TV shows Heartbreak High and Home and Away, is released on DVD in the UK this week.

Inspired by true events, the Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment release was nominated for Best Debut Feature at the 17th Raindance Film Festival 2009.

This Aussie production, written and directed by Scott Murden, centres on jealous, unstable Angela (Lara Cox) who plans a dinner party for her student friends.

What they don't know is that the night's deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder.

Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela's friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death.

Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?

Running time is 88minutes on the Certificate 15 release.

“The Dinner Party” is an Australian independent feature that has enjoyed success on the festival circuit, having been an official selection at the Australian Film Festival and nominated for Best Debut Feature at Raindance in London in 2009. Apparently inspired by tragic true life events, the film marks the debut of writer director Scott Murden and has a few recognisable faces in the cast for soap opera fans, including Lara Cox (who featured in the popular series “Heartbreak High” and “Home and Away”) and Ben Seton (“Water Rats”). The film now arrives on region 2 DVD via Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment, coming with audio commentary from Murden. The film revolves around Angela (Lara Cox), a disturbed young woman whose turbulent relationship with long suffering boyfriend Joel seems to be heading for its end. Deciding to kill herself, she organises a dinner party for Joel and a handful of friends, planning to take at...

Take a seat and get ready to die, as courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment we have three copies of Scott Murden’s Australian shocker The Dinner Party on DVD to give away to lucky UK fans.

Nominated for Best Debut Feature at the Raindance London Film Festival 2009, and supposedly inspired by true events, the synopsis for The Dinner Party is as follows:

Jealous and unstable, Angela (Lara Cox) plans a dinner party for her student friends - what they don’t know is that the night’s deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder!

Determined to end her life after the final course, Angela’s friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death. Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone. The question is: Who is she going to take with her?

Accepting...