55th Annual AWGIE Awards: Submissions

The Australian Writers’ Guild is calling for entries for the 55th Annual AWGIE Awards. Celebrating the very best in Australian stage and screenwriting, the AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of Australian storytellers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape. This year, there are some major updates to the categories, including: • Theatre – stage has been split into original and adapted. • Audio has been split into fiction and non-fiction. • The television series and miniseries categories have been...

Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival returns to June for 2022, with the first titles to be announced April 6 and the full festival program revealed in May. The festival will take place across Greater Sydney: at the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Cinemas Newtown, Randwick Ritz, Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Cremorne, Palace Cinemas, Art Gallery of NSW, Casula Powerhouse, the Festival Hub at Sydney Town Hall and SFFTV in Pitt Street Mall. Films will screen in conjunction with a...

Armenian Film Festival Australia

Event Cinemas, Top Ryde

The Armenian Film Festival Australia returns for its 6th edition to Melbourne and Sydney, with a slate of impressive films, including 45 Days: The Fight for a Nation – a film by British conflict documentary journalist reporter and filmmaker, Emile Ghessen, who in 2020, was on the ground covering the largely unreported 44-day war on the indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by Azerbaijan, backed by NATO member Turkey. Now in Ukraine, Emile will be making his way to Australia...

Sony Catchlight Film Festival: Submissions

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...