After staging the Sony Film Festival last year, Sony returns with the Catchlight Film Festival to showcase short-form filmmaking shot on Sony cameras across Australia and New Zealand.

Entries can be submitted across four categories – Fiction (scripted), Non-Fiction (documentary), Student Fiction, and Music Video.

Each category-winning film will be awarded with a unique experience specific to that category as well as a prize package of Sony digital imaging products, supported by Sony Electronics.

Sony will be hosting a night of festivities in late August to celebrate the finalist films, with more details to be announced closer to the date.

Entries open at 12:00 PM AEDT on Thursday, March and close for submissions at 11:59PM AEST Wednesday, June 15.

Judging will commence on Monday, June 20, with all finalists notified from Monday, July 18.