For the fourth year running, Hear For You hosted their annual Film Festival highlighting the talents of deaf or hard of hearing teenagers around Australia. Due to COVID restrictions, Hear For You replaced the usual red-carpet event at the Golden Age Cinema with an online watch party. The Film Festival Watch Party was sponsored by…
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2020 APIA Young at Heart Seniors Film Festival
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The APIA Young at Heart Seniors Film Festival presented by Palace Cinemas returns for its 15th addition this February 19 to March 4, 2020. The Festival will light up cinema screens across 14 venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and for the first time ever, Byron Bay. The only nationwide Film Festival in…
Australian Museum Short Documentary Selected For International Film Festivals
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No Distance Between Us, a short documentary (11 minutes) about the discovery of the world’s largest collection of ancient human footprints in Mungo National Park has been selected to screen at three international film festivals, Global Impact Film Festival (Washington), Antenna International Documentary Film Festival (Sydney) and Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto). Commissioned by the…
BIFF 2019 Winners Announced
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The winners of the 2019 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF 2019) Short Film Awards were announced recently at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) during the Festival’s closing night party. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said the awards included the inaugural Screen Queensland Short Film Award valued at…
2018 Hear For You Film Festival Winners Announced
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The winners of Australia’s first film festival by deaf teenagers, the Hear For You Film Festival, have just been announced. The inaugural national Film Festival, supported by Australian Hearing, is the first of its kind in Australia and is an opportunity for any deaf or hard of hearing secondary school students to script, shoot and…
MIFF Announces 2018 Program
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Celebrating its 67th year, The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has unveiled its 2018 program. Featuring 254 feature films, 120 shorts and 19 virtual reality experiences, the festival will include 27 world premieres and 168 Australian premieres over 18 action-packed days of cinema. Embarking on her eighth and final festival as Artistic Director, Michelle Carey…
After the Apology to Open The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
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The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival will open with the ground-breaking documentary After the Apology, which explores the skyrocketing rates of Aboriginal child removal today. After the Apology follows the story of four grandmothers challenging government policies to bring their grandkids home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb the skyrocketing rates…
Nina Rodriguez St Kilda 2018 Film Festival Interview
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A big thank you to Nina Rodríguez, GIFF Director of Programming, who will be attending the 2018 St Kilda Film Festival as this year’s international guest for taking the time to answer some questions. What was the first movie that you fell in love with? I grew up in Germany in the 80s and loads…
St. Kilda Film Festival Special Screenings Program Announced
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An exciting preview of the upcoming 2018 St Kilda Film Festival has been released with the announcement of the special screenings program. St Kilda Film Festival provides opportunities for both emerging and established filmmakers, producers and directors to gain recognition among their peers and the general public. Among the exciting ten-day calendar there will be…
JFF 2017 Program Announced
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The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) returns in 2017 with a line-up of the very best of fresh and classic Japanese cinema, for a huge national tour of Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, from October 13th to December 3rd. With each city’s program carefully curated by the Japan Foundation, Sydney, the 2017 Festival will…