The Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) returns to the Deckchair Cinema in September with 11 nights of screenings under the stars. Highlights include Screen Territory’s Spark Short Film Initiative which this year carries the theme of courage. Three successful NT filmmaking teams will receive $30,000 in production funding from Screen Territory to produce a ten-minute short film to world premiere at DIFF 2024. Each team will be supported by an experienced Screen Industry story development mentor, while being assigned an...

SXSW will return to Sydney in 2024, offering experiences across tech and innovation, music, screen and games industries. The 2023 event marked the brand's first expansion outside of North America, with the conference portion incorporating 400 keynotes, presentations, panels, workshops and mentor sessions, held across The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS); The Powerhouse Museum and The International Convention Centre (ICC). There was also showcases across music and screen, with the latter including feature films, short, episodic TV, music video, and...

Bus Stop Films will host its first-ever summit next year to explore disability employment in film, TV and commercial production. Taking place across November 18-19 at Sydney’s Bondi Pavillion, the event will aim to bring together the disability, commercial advertising, broadcast, and production sectors to explore the employment of people with disability across the screen industry, on both sides of the camera and above and below the line. The program will be co-designed with disability and screen industry representatives and...