Last month's ceremony will be broadcast on Foxtel's Aurora Channel on May 29 - this Sunday - at 8pm, with three further broadcasts to follow.
Doubt's Viola Davis is exec producing after buying the rights to the original novel by Ann Weisgarber.
The historical drama takes place in the forty-eight hours leading up to D-Day in May 1944.
Stephen Lance wrote the script, about "two female friends whose lives entwine in the pages of an elusive second novel", and produces alongside Leanne Tonkes.
Guests who have participated in AACTA events over the last couple of years include Andrew Knight, Jeremy Sims, Jan Chapman, Tony Ayres, Joel Edgerton, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Penny Chapman, Ariel Kleiman, Megan Riakos and Ryan Griffen.
ACMI's exhibition runs from May 26 to September 18.
Slack Bay premiered in official competition, and is about the disappearances of tourists from a picturesque coastal community in the north of France in 1910, and the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the local townsfolk.
Since joining ABC TV in 2010, Riley has worked on Black Comedy, Gods of Wheat Street, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio, Redfern Now and Cleverman.