ST. ALi Italian Film Festival

The 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival returns to cinemas nationally in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, and Byron Bay from September, featuring a mix of contemporary drama, comedy, and documentaries, while also honouring one of Italy’s greatest filmmakers, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The 2022 Festival opens with the Italian box office hit Belli Ciao, starring comedic duo Pio and Amedeo. It follows two formerly inseparable friends who reunite in their hometown in Puglia after years apart, resulting in an...

Goodbye to Godard

ACMI, Melbourne Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ACMI celebrates the life and career of iconoclastic French auteur Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away earlier this month at age 91, with Goodbye to Godard – a season showcasing six films from the director’s career-defining French New Wave period, including his breakout 1960 film Breathless  (À bout de souffle) and his satire of youth culture, Masculin, Féminin (1966). Six films will screen as part of Goodbye to Godard: Breathless (1960) – Godard’s debut feature heralded the French New Wave movement and inspired...

Flaunt — The Other Film Festival

Cinemas, Level 2 ACMI, Fed Square

The Other Film Festival and Arts Access Victoria have come together to present Flaunt – an online, accessible film program available for streaming on demand via ACMI’s Cinema 3, as part of the Alter State Festival. All Flaunt films are made by deaf and disabled people either as key creatives, collaborators, and performers, with the entire program free to watch, audio described, and captioned. The Other Film Festival is proudly disability-led, with a festival team including artistic director Fiona Tuomy...

ADG Credit Maker – Applications

The Australian Directors’ Guild has opened applications for the ADG Credit Maker Program, which will support four early mid-career women and non-binary directors to attain a 'career defining' credit on a scripted production. The ADG Credit Maker program is supported by Screen Australia’s umbrella Gender Matters program in partnership with the Australian Directors' Guild and aims to increase gender diversity in HOD roles in the sector.  All applications will be reviewed by a panel who will shortlist 20 candidates, and...

2022 SPA Awards: Submissions

Submissions are open for the 2022 Screen Producers Australia (SPA) Awards, which will be announced at an in-person ceremony on the final night of Screen Forever 37 (May 3-5 2023) on the Gold Coast. Returning categories include Animated Production of the Year, Feature Film Production of the Year, Commissioner of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, and the prestigious Media Super Production Business of the Year Award. Early bird entries open 12:01am AEST on September 1 and 12:00pm AEST on September...