Frame Doc Labs 2024: Submissions

Frame Documentary is inviting applications for its 2024 Frame Doc Labs, an acceleration program designed to support Victoria’s most daring and innovative non-fiction storytellers to explore new directions, develop new connections, and incubate new documentary work at the intersection of art and technology. Running from February to August, the initiative will provide four teams of mid-career creators support for prototyping new methods, processes, and approaches to bring their non-fiction immersive stories to light.    

Made in the West Film Festival

Made in the West Film Festival is returning this November, highlighting the cutting-edge films being made by indie and student filmmakers in the region. Now in its 12th year, the festival includes a cinema screening at Event Cinemas Liverpool on Saturday, November 25, after which four major awards will be presented - Best in the West, Best Student Film, Best Music Video and the Audience Choice Award. There will also be individual category prizes for Best Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound...

NATSIMO Screen Composer Intensive: Expressions of Interest

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music Office (NATSIMO) has opened expressions of interest for its Screen Composer Intensive. The program was developed in consultation with screen industry professionals with the goal to create, forge and develop self-determined pathways to employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screen composers through the development of a three-month creative immersive experience. Applications are open to composers from all across Australia, but the program requires the participant to be based in Sydney...

VCA graduate showcase on MIFF Play

Forty films by Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) graduates will be streamed for free on the Melbourne International...

Bus Stop Films 2023 Showcase

Eighteen short films produced through Bus Stop Films’ Accessible Film Studies Program are set to tour nationally, kicking off with a gala event in Perth on Sunday December 3, hosted by Julia Hales. The films were created by 180 filmmakers, all young adults with mild/moderate intellectual disability or autism. The participants in the Accessible Film Studies Program worked with their tutors to create short films alongside industry professionals who mentor the students on set. The films include dramas, documentaries and...

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