{FILM FESTIVALS IN AUSTRALIA}

{Entries Open) Cairns Adventure FF

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:13:59 +1100

The Cairns Adventure Film Festival, now in its third year, is Australia’s ONLY adventure film festival that celebrates specifically Australasian and SE Asian-themed adventure films. Be it films made in Australasia or SE Asia, about these regions or by people from these regions – it’s all about celebrating the depth of talent and love of adventure that resides under the southern sun.

We’re looking for stories and narratives – tales that connect with a viewer and move through from the idea of a challenge through events as they happen to a conclusion – all in the outdoors. We’re looking for characters – people, adventurers that we’d want to know about, and a look into their lives and what they do and how they achieve it. And yes, we’re looking for killer shots, vision of people doing amazing things caught on camera that will blow us away.

For more info: http://www.caff.net.au/category/2012-competition/

{Entries Open} St Kilda FF Shorts

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:12:25 +1100

Entries for the 2012 St Kilda Film Festival Short Film Competition and Soundkilda Australian Music Video Competition close on 27 January.

In 2012 the competition will screen the Top 100 short film entries received, and the competition is fierce! The short film competition awards over $40,000 worth of cash and in-kind craft awards, including a $10,000 prize for Best Short Film!

The Festival also features the SoundKILDA Australian Music Video Competition where prizes are awarded in four categories, Best Music Video, Best Independent Music Video, Best Music Video - Animation and the special Audience Award voted for and presented the night of the screening.

Entries close Friday 27 January.
for more info visit http://www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au/callforentries/

Sydney Film Festival – Deadline - Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:42:19 +1100

Submissions for the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films close on Monday 27th February. Shortlisted films will be screened during the Sydney Film Festival and winners receive a cash prize, with Live Action and Yoram Gross Animation Award winners being eligible for Academy Awards consideration. Past Award holders include Jane Campion, Phillip Noyce and Gillian Armstrong.

To view full rules and regulations, visit: http://sff.org.au/public/faq/rules-regulations/ > .

The Festivalists - Marketing and Sponsorship

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:53:55 +1100

The non-profit company behind Possible Worlds - Sydney’s Canadian Film Festival - The Festivalists - is seeking a brilliant Marketing & Sponsorship Manager to help spread the love about Possible Worlds and a host of awesome events & festivals. Could this be you or someone you know?

http://www.thefestivalists.com/

Popcorn Taxi Internship

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:09:05 +1100

Popcorn Taxi are after interns - (preferably film students) who can touch type and want to find out everything there is to know about filmmaking from the likes of Ang Lee, Phillip Noyce, Nicolas Winding Refn and co.
If you’ve got one day a week, they want to hear from you!
Please send an email with a CV to oscar@popcorntaxi.com.au

For more info on Popcorn Taxi visit:
http://www.popcorntaxi.com.au

Egor Shapovalov

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:16:41 +1100

Egor Shapovalov

{Entries Open} The Belt

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:04:20 +1100

THE BELT – an extreme Film Festival is for action & adventure sports athletes and filmmakers / videographers.

All winners and a selection of finalists will have the opportunity to be included in THE BELT TV program.

There is also over $20,000 in cash and prizes to be won in the following categories:
• Best Overall
• Best Action
• Best Story
• Best Music

Winner of Overall Best Film secure a $5,000 contract to produce an action/adventure segment for FUEL TV with one of their Producers mentoring you.

Key Dates:
• Entries open now
• Entries close 9th January 2012
• Film Festival: 12th February 2012
• TV Program: Early March 2012

For more information visit: www.thebeltfilmfestival.com.au

{Entries Open} African Film Festival

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:51:28 +1100

The African Film Festival Australia have opened entries to the 2012 festival.
Films must be contemporary African or International films related to Africa in terms of content, production or co-production. This includes feature films, documentaries, animations, shorts and videos.

+1 December 2011 closing date for all submissions
+2nd January winning films and program announced
+Festival Opening Night (early March)

For more information:
http://www.africanfilmfestival.org.au

My Queer Career {Entries Closing Soon- Nov 11}

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:33:54 +1100

Calling all AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS who are queer or have made a queer film. The 2012 My Queer Career competition is seeking entries. My Queer Career is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for queer short filmmakers and is only open to locally produced work. The major prize includes $3,000 cash and automatic inclusion in the international queer shorts competition, the IRIS PRIZE. Other prizes include in-kind production facilities and support to the value of $15,000.

Entries closing Friday Nov 11 2011

Visit http://www.queerscreen.com.au/ for more info

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Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:37:02 +1100

{Entries Open} Coasties Film Festival

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:34:10 +1100

Coasties Film Festival are now taking entries up to Feb 2012.
All films are to have a tie with the Central Coast, whether it be; the actors, directors, shooting location, family, other cast or crew, etc.

Primary School under 5 mins
Secondary School under 5 mins
Open category under 10 mins
Open category under 100 seconds
Seniors (Over 55) undr 10 mins

More details:
http://www.coastiesfilmfestival.com.au

{Entries Open} Human Rights FF

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:28:00 +1100

Submissions for the fifth annual Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) are open
The festival is is looking for diverse, innovative and creative responses to human rights. Films that inspire and engage new audiences. In particular, HRAFF is seeking films that creatively and artistically engage with the field of human rights – films that aren’t simple soapbox pieces, that don’t sacrifice message for storytelling, and that remain accessible to a mainstream or festival going audience.

Dates and Deadlines

Early Bird Entries – Close 20 October
Features Entries – Close 5 November
Shorts Entries – Close 5 December
Under 18s – Close 5 December

SUBMISSION FEES

SHORT FILM SUBMISSIONS
Early Bird Entries $10 – Close 20 October
Final Entries $15 – Close 5 December

More info: http://hraff.org.au/submissions/

{Entries Open} Shorts Film Festival

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:48:13 +1100

Australian filmmakers from around the globe compete for one of the best prize pools for short films in Australia, including the Gold Shorts first prize of a trip to an overseas film festival such as Cannes. Other awards include the $10000 Black Shorts prize for Best Indigenous film, post production assistance for your next film, merit prizes for screenwriters; which include cash and prizes from film industry bodies and we have an award for young filmmakers.

http://shortsfilmfestival.com/

ENTRIES NOW OPEN | Clare Valley FF Earlybird Deadline: 31...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:23:35 +1100

ENTRIES NOW OPEN | Clare Valley FF
Earlybird Deadline: 31 October 2011 – $10
Deadline: 28 November 2011 – $15
Late Deadline: 19 December 2011 – $20

VISIT
http://www.clarevalleyfilmfestival.com/enter/

ENTRIES OPEN Make a short film inspired by the theme...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:16:57 +1100

ENTRIES OPEN

Make a short film inspired by the theme ‘Tennis Essence’ for the chance to win $5000 and have your work viewed during Australian Open 2012, the Grand Slam of Asia–Pacific.

http://www.changingends.com.au/

WIN! your place at KINO KABARET - Sydney

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:34:00 +1100

Kino Kabaret - 32hr filmmaking marathon!

Kino Kabaret 2011 is offering one lucky person the chance to participate in Sydney’s fastest filmmaking marathon! (Thursday 27th - Friday 28th October 2011 session)

Kino Kabaret provides you with all the tools and contacts to shoot a film in under 32 hours!
With the SONY HVR-Z1P, green screens, actors, music, locations and swish editing facilities at your finger tips, anything is possible!

The prize also includes access to a free workshop on casting, entry to the screenings parties, booze, food and circus entertainment!

http://www.kinosydney.com/kino-kabaret-2011/

To enter let us know why you would like to participate in the Kino Kabaret - 32hr filmmaking marathon in 32 words or less.
Entries must be emailed by Monday 24th October 11am to leigh@filmfestivalguide.com
Please include your name, email and phone number.
Winner will be notified by email on Monday 24th Oct before 4pm.

Prize does not include transport or accommodation.

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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:18:19 +1100

Poetry in Film Festival - Tickets on Sale

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:14:41 +1100

Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) is the initiative that aims to bring the Australian arts community together with a festival combining film and poetry.

Screening Dates
Sydney: 30th October, 2011
Palace Verona

Brisbane: 26th October, 2011
Palace Centro

Adelaide: 19th October, 2011
Palace Nova

Perth: 12th October, 2011
Cinema Paradiso

Canberra: 10th October, 2011
National Sound & Film Archive

http://www.poetryinfilmfestival.com.au/

Kino Kabaret Filmmaking Marathon

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:14:51 +1000

Kino Kabaret is one of the longest standing best kept secret filmmaking marathons in Sydney. Why so? Because anyone who has made a short film will know that one of the biggest long stretch annoyances is pre-production - finding actors, searching locations, arranging location permits, hiring cameras, lighting kits, finding crew etc etc and this means a lot of time and $$$! Thus Kino Kabaret is unique in that all the pre-production and hard film yards are already done for you.

Proudly supported by Metroscreen, all Kino Kabaret teams are provided camera and lighting kits, access to green screen and professional editing labs. So all you really need is a great idea and to sign/then turn up on the morning of your marathon session. Actually, you don’t even need an idea. Just sign/then turn up on the day and be ready to team up and play.

“One of the most exciting things for me is that you have people who come along who’ve never shot a film before and who are very nervous about it, and the kick they get at the end from seeing their film on the big screen in front of everyone, is such a rush. What’s also exciting is a lot of them continue to make films and grow as a filmmaker” says luminescent Kino Kabaret Festival Co-ordinator, Adele Moletta, who herself is also a film and documentary maker.

The spirit of Kino Kabaret is one that encourages spontaneity, collaboration and community. Everyone, no matter if you’ve never held a camera or have operated a red camera on a crane, is invited to come together and create something in this spirit of innovation and community. There is a place for everyone. And having the films you make shown at screening parties straight after the 32hr marathon, it really is a celebration of making short films low on budget but high on creativity and community. And we overuse the word “community” because this is what its really about.

2011 Kino Kabaret filmmaking marathons are happening: Wednesday 25th - Sunday 30th October
For more information and registration please visit http://www.kinosydney.com/kino-kabaret-2011/
Participant fee is only $30. Participation forms and payment must be in by Friday 14th October.

Kathy Luu

Manhattan Film Festival - Sydney

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:05:00 +1000

“From the first second you’ve got to know why you’re watching the film. It’s why I love watching Alfred Hitchcock. In the first three minutes you know why you’re watching his films. And it’s kind of the same way I think of this festival and the films we show.” says Nick Mason, founder Of Manhattan Shorts Film Festival.

Now in its 13th year, this may also explain Manhattan Shorts’ exponential growth from being projected on the side of a delivery truck in downtown Manhattan, to screening over 250 cinemas over 5 continents this year. “Since the festival’s inception, our idea was to find the best short filmmaker in the world and take it to the largest audience in the world…” says Mason. With the aim to spread interest in short films and create an event that brings people together internationlly, Manhattan Shorts is expecting more than 100 000 people worldwide to view and vote over one week this year, its festival tagline: One World, One Week, One Festival.

I will admit that I’ve never been this excited over a short film festival in Australia by just reading over a program and the directors’ interviews. Each of the stories and the directors’ vision come from a place that is alive and compelling, where some of the films this year came about because life is actually stranger than fiction.

Our Aussie own, writer and director Christopher Stollery’s DIK, about a six year old boy who brings home a piece of schoolwork that provokes his parents to question his sexual orientation, which sparks their own hidden secrets and truths to come to the surface, will leave you laughing and pondering at the same time. I was lucky to catch this film at another festival, and watching it you’ll understand why it has also captured audiences at festivals around the world. Chris will also be at the Sydney screening to introduce DIK.

For avid lovers of world movies and interesting stories, this feels like a selection of the world’s best shorts in one place.

For Sydneysiders, like any good film festival there’s an afterparty after the screening. Yes, at KONGS Jungle Lounge, from 10pm,110 Spring St - Bond Junction

So come watch, vote and celebrate the world of short films.

Manhattan Shorts will be screening in Sydney Saturday 1st October, 7pm at the Chauvel Cinema.
Tickets are limited https://www.palacecinemas.com.au/sessiontimes/session/170/17984/

For more information about other screenings around Australia and interviews with finalists http://www.manhattanshort.com/info.html