The First Nations Film Festival, formerly the Virtual Indigenous Film Festival, is returning as part of this year's National Reconciliation Week. Held from May 30 - June 3, the event features a selection of award-winning films - each with a Virtual Screening and live audience participation via Live Chat - with the aim of bringing audiences together from around the country, and spark discussions surrounding the 2023 Reconciliation Week theme: Be a Voice for Generations. This year’s festival will present...

St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF) returns on Thursday, June 1 for 12 days, presenting a series of films, workshops, panels, special events, and premieres from filmmakers across Australia. The Filmmaker Development Day on June 3 is designed to help budding creatives hone their craft at JMC Academy's Park Street Campus. Audiences can upskill with a series of hands-on workshops, forums, panels, exhibitions, screenings, and Q&As on a diverse range of filmmaking topics with some of Australia's top emerging and established...

The 2023 Screen Queensland and Stowe Story Labs Fellowship program supports two emerging-to mid-career Queensland-based screenwriters, directors or creative producers to travel to the US and develop their scripts at the Stowe Story Labs Incubator, followed by ongoing industry mentoring.   The fellowship includes attendance at Stowe’s Sidewalk Narrative Lab during the 2023 Sidewalk Film Festival in Alabama this August. Following the lab, recipients will continue their script and career development via a six-month remote mentorship with one of Stowe’s affiliated, U.S.-based industry experts....