After receiving a record 230 submissions, a total of 55 web series represented from 15 different countries were selected as the 2016 Official Selection to screen at the festival.
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Margaret Pomeranz will appear in conversation with Goldstone's Ivan Sen, Alice Springs short filmmaker Dylan River and Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Four Sheets to the Wind, Barking Water, Mekko).
The 2016 festival has wrapped up with 18 winners across all categories.
Down the Rabbit Hole: Virtual Reality at the Hub is a VR sidebar programmed by Mathieu Ravier at Sydney's Town Hall.
Screen Australia will select the pair and provide up to $5,000 travel support per producer.
Holmer will screen her film The Fits as part of the Essential Independents: American Cinema Now Film Festival.
Highlights include SFF's opening night film Goldstone, directed by Ivan Sen and starring Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham and David Gulpilil, and closing night film Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman's adaptation of an early, unher
The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, starring Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward and Matilda Brown, will open this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.