Screen Australia’s Enterprise Business: Applications

Screen Australia's Enterprise 2024 program is open for applications. The program aims to foster sustainable screen businesses and careers for screen practitioners in key creative roles. The agency is calling for applications from ambitious screen production businesses and creators looking to capitalise on success and expand their capacity and influence in Australian storytelling. In addition to receiving Enterprise funding, successful applicants will receive supplementary support in the form of targeted learning modules and experienced mentors who can offer individualised creative,...

Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival

Cinema Nova 380 Lygon Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia

Now an established annual event, the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova in February with 10 sessions of sci-fi/fantasy films. This year’s Melbourne line-up will include 16 Australian premieres of features France, Canada, Macedonia, Sweden, The United States and The United Kingdom. The short-film roster of 12 titles includes works Chinese visual effects sector, Polish animation and three works from Australian directors. Opening Night honours go to French director Damien Faure’s Pyramiden, starring David D'Ingéo as the lone...

The Best Films You’ve Never Seen

The Capitol 113 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC

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,...