Flickerfest 2024 National Tour

Flickerfest is Australia’s only Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised Short Film Festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International...

2025 AACTA Awards: Submissions

The Australian Academy has opened entries for the 2025 AACTA Awards, to be held on the Gold Coast. All award categories from the previous year will return, with additional details regarding awards for VFX and digital/online content set to be announced in the coming months. This will be the second year the prestigious ceremonies will be held on the Gold Coast alongside the 2025 AACTA Festival. Key dates are as follows: July 15: Short Film Entries Close August 12: Documentary Entries Close...

SXSW 2024

SXSW will return to Sydney in 2024, offering experiences across tech and innovation, music, screen and games industries. The...

Bus Stop Films Summit 2024

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...

Blussh Romance Festival

Blussh Romance Festival will be accepting feature film and short film (Quickies) submissions for the 2025 festival. The festival first hit the Brisbane scene in February 2024 and brought together romantics from all genres, sub genres and formats. Blussh is a celebration of romance, love and connection through film screenings and author events. Submission deadlines: November 1, 2024 (earlybird deadline), December 20, 2024 (regular deadline), January 6, 2025 (notification date), February 13 – 16, 2025 (event date).