UK Connect – Submissions

UK Connect is a new initiative from Screen Producers Australia and the British Film Institute designed to create new...

Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival

Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival will screen at eight venues across Sydney including Event Cinemas (George Street), Dendy Cinema (Newtown), and Ritz Cinemas (Randwick), as well as other locations still to be announced. The late filmmaker Stephen Cummings, one of the founders of Queer Screen, will be honoured with a retrospective gala of his nine short films that have been digitised, restored, and remastered by National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and Simon Hunt, Stephen’s estate executor. This...

Focus on Clara Law

ACMI, Melbourne Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ACMI and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) are co-presenting a focus season celebrating the cinema of Clara Law with five formative features selected by the director screening at ACMI in Melbourne February 16–26, followed by a bespoke program of events at the NFSA in Canberra. Focus on Clara Law at ACMI will include the Melbourne premiere of Law’s latest film Drifting Petals (2021), as well as the NFSA’s full digital restoration screening of Floating Life (1996), with Law...