2022 AACTA Awards: Submissions

Entries are now open across Film, Television, Documentary, and Short Film categories for the 2022 AACTA Awards. The awards comprise more than 50 different award categories across film, television, documentary, and short film, celebrating Australian stories, culture, and creativity on the big and small screens. The 2022 AACTA Awards includes a change to the feature film eligibility policy, which has been updated to recognise films that premiere on streaming, subscription, or free to air television, with no theatrical distribution. More...

Antenna Documentary Film Festival: Submissions

Entries are now open for the 11th Antenna Documentary Film Festival, returning to cinemas across Sydney, Australia from 12—23 October 2022. The Festival will continue to showcase the best of non-fiction cinema from Australia and around the world. Submissions for the Festival are being accepted through Film Freeway in two categories: • Feature Documentary Competition which comes with a cash prize of $7,500 for the ‘Best Feature Documentary Award’ winner and $2,500 for the ‘Special Jury Award’ winner. These prizes...

Polish Film Festival Sydney

The Polish Film Festival Sydney returns this May and June with a  line-up of critically acclaimed films screening across two cinemas, Palace Norton Street and The Ritz Cinemas. The program brings two Australian premieres, six NSW premieres, and a broad selection of work by a new generation of incredibly talented Polish filmmakers. Commencing on Sunday, May 22, the event will open with Polish-Irish comedy-drama I Never Cry (Jak najdalej stąd) from the Silent Night director Piotr Domalewski, who takes audiences...

German Film Festival

From this May to June, the German Film Festival will showcase the best contemporary German cinema direct from major festivals in Europe plus a selection from its German-speaking neighbours, Austria and Switzerland. This year’s Festival Special Presentation is Dear Thomas (Lieber Thomas), a historical monochrome biopic of East German writer and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, starring rising star Albrecht Schuch (Fabian: Going to the Dogs and Berlin Alexanderplatz GFF21). Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England, moving to the GDR...

Quicksilver Production Initiative

Mercury CX and the South Australian Film Corporation have launched the Quicksilver Production Initiative with the aims to fund four short-form productions - 2 x $25,000 and 2 x $10,000. This initiative is designed to act as a stepping-stone for emerging, advancing and transitioning screen industry practitioners from South Australia to help them achieve their career goals. Applications are invited from teams with projects that are in advanced stages of development and are production-ready. The lead applicant must be an MCX...