What we do

Hi Gloss Entertainment is an arthouse and specialist film and TV distributor based in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 2012, we specialise in top-quality drama, comedy and documentary cinema from around the world as well as the best television series from Europe and beyond.

We travel to film festivals across Australia, Europe and the Americas to find the world’s best films and TV to share with local audiences. We are regular exhibitors at all of Australia and New Zealand’s major film festivals and our diverse catalogue of films play theatres and cinemas in capital cities and rural centres alike.

Our DVD catalogue is growing constantly and represents the finest cinema and television from France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Iran, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

With films by visionary filmmakers such as Paolo Virzì, Julie Delpy, Sébastien Betbeder, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Garcia and Oscar winners Morgan Neville and Asghar Farhadi, Hi Gloss Entertainment has quickly built a reputation for building an exciting range of the finest quality world cinema.

Our television content represents the best that Europe has to offer. We maintain a strong focus on the current wave of stunning Scandinavian television with programs such as The Heavy Water War, Wallander, Crimes of Passion and The Legacy, from the creators of modern classics Borgen and The Killing. We also offer the best of Italian TV crime drama with Inspector Montalbano, Inspector Soneri, Detective De Luca and 1992 and other unmissable European television like Un Village Français and Salamander. 

We utilise the most up-to-date digital technologies, such as DCP digital cinema, as well as digital home streaming, video-on-demand and EST services.

Welcome to Hi Gloss Entertainment.