Screenwave International Film Festival

The Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival will open with Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness. Rolf de Heer, lead actress Mwajemi Hussein, and producers Molly Reynolds and Julie Byrne will be in attendance. The Survival of Kindness, filmed in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges and Tasmania, will launch a 150-session line-up of screenings and events at SWIFF’23, running 16 days and nights across three screening venues in Coffs Harbour and Bellingen, including the newly upgraded historic Bellingen Memorial Hall, having just...

The ReelGood Film Festival

Lido Cinemas 675 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

After a brief hiatus, The ReelGood Film Festival is back! Lido Cinemas will host a jam-packed day of 22...

ABC Art Works Documentary Initiative: Submissions

Screenwest and ABC Arts have opened applications for the ABC Art Works Documentary Initiative, a $10,000 production opportunity designed to offer a broadcast credit to Western Australian filmmakers. Up to four emerging to mid-career producer and director teams will be selected to each produce and deliver a 3-8 minute documentary segment profiling the work of a resident Western Australian artist or arts company, for broadcast on ABC and ABC iview as part of this Art Works. Hosted by Namila Benson, Art...

CinefestOZ Albany 2023

The four-day CinefestOZ Albany celebrates the best in Australian film. Events are spread across the region’s cinemas and venues,...

SWANA Film Festival

Riverside Theatres Corner Market and Church St, Parramatta, NSW, Australia

The first-ever SWANA Film Festival, presented by Arts & Cultural Exchange (ACE) Parramatta, is a three day festival of Southwest Asian and North African cinema screening at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta across the weekend. The festival will screen 20 unique films across the program, from Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Armenia, and Syria. These include two LGBTQIA+ films and represent more than five languages. Australian premieres include opening night film Baghdad in My Shadow by Swiss-Iraqi filmmaker Samir (Iraqi Odyssey) and...