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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...

ABC and AIDC Indigenous Documentary Placement: Submissions

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in partnership with the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC), is inviting applications for the Indigenous Documentary Placement program for 2022, with a submission deadline of Friday 1 July 2022. Now in its second year, the Indigenous Documentary Placement is designed to provide one mid-career Indigenous practitioner with a unique opportunity to undertake an extended placement with the ABC, Australia’s largest public broadcaster. The successful applicant will be embedded in the ABC for a period of...

Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival returns to June for 2022, with the first titles to be announced April 6 and the full festival program revealed in May. The festival will take place across Greater Sydney: at the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Cinemas Newtown, Randwick Ritz, Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace Cremorne, Palace Cinemas, Art Gallery of NSW, Casula Powerhouse, the Festival Hub at Sydney Town Hall and SFFTV in Pitt Street Mall. Films will screen in conjunction with a...

The Films of Abbas Kiarostami

Cinemas, Level 2 ACMI, Fed Square

Abbas Kiarostami’s influence is widely acknowledged amongst filmmakers, including the likes Scorsese and Kurosawa, but his extensive body of work is perhaps lesser known by broader Australian film audiences. Known for his humanist (almost neo-realist) subject matter, Kiarostami’s work were integral to the Iranian New Wave movement and the emergence of Iranian cinema onto the world stage. His films conveyed a sense of intimacy with audiences, often focusing on conversations and small moments of interaction between characters, to probe gentle...