In a sad blow, the Melbourne International Film Festival has announced it will cancel its in-cinema screenings given the current COVID situation in the city.
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Sydney Film Festival today announced the 10 shorts to compete in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, including Jon Bell's SXSW-winner 'The Moogai' and Nash Edgerton's follow-up to 'Bear' and 'Spider' - 'Shark', starring himself and Rose Byrne.
Eva Orner's 'Burning', about Australia's devastating 'Black Summer', will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Australian films have won in two categories at this year's LA Shorts International Film Festival, with Jon Bell's 'The Moogai' awarded Best Horror and Tony Radevski's 'Risen' named Best Sci-Fi.
With the Greater Sydney lockdown due to extend until at least the end of the month, Sydney Film Festival, intended to run August 18-29, will now move to new dates in early November.
In putting together this year's Melbourne International Film Festival, director Al Cossar was "hoping for the best and planning for utter chaos".
Four female-driven stories on wide-ranging subjects make up the contribution of Rush Films to this year's CinefestOZ program.
Director and producer Nadia Tass will chair the jury for this year's CinefestOZ, which had its full line-up announced in Perth yesterday.