The Best Films You've Never Seen series returns to Melbourne's The Captiol in 2024, with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), ranked #24 and #25 respectively in Sight and Sound Magazine's 100 Greatest Films of All Time list. 2:30 pm - Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee writes, directs and stars in this story about racial conflict in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. On a scorchingly hot summer day,...

Entries are now open for the 71st Sydney Film Festival in 2024, in cinemas from June 5—16. This year, filmmakers have the opportunity to vie for a prize pool of $155,000 spread across various award categories. Submissions for the Festival are being accepted through Film Freeway and will close March 1 for international and Australian productions, the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and the Documentary Australia Award. The 2024 season will celebrate the 55th year of the festival’s Australian...

The SMPTE METexpo and SMPTE conference brings together the leading global and local industry leaders from the media, broadcast, movie, and streaming industries. Hear directly from those that that are shaping the implementation of technology from the camera through all the media ecosystem directly to the viewer and listener. Visit exhibitors, and participate in the debates and knowledge sharing.

The 38th iteration of Screen Producers Australia's (SPA) Screen Forever conference, including the SPA Connect Market, will take place in person on the Gold Coast from March 19-21 March, followed by an Online Global Market from March 26-27. The SPA Awards will take place on March 21, recognising the outstanding screen industry contributions by SPA members across 19 categories.

This year's Australian International Screen Forum will be held at New York’s Lincoln Center from March 25-29 and feature screenings, seminars, roundtables, keynote conversations, masterclasses, and educational activities. Headlining the event is a retrospective marking the 35-year anniversary of Fred Schepisi’s A Cry in the Dark, known as Evil Angels in Australia, for which the director will participate in a Q&A and present a masterclass. Also on the screening program is a preview of Robert Connolly’s Force of Nature: The Dry...