AIDC Stanley Hawes Award

The $5,000 Stanley Hawes Award is presented annually at the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) to a person who...

AIDC Cut to the Chase

Cut to the Chase is the Australian Documentary Conference's curated marketplace, carefully matching producers and decision makers for optimum...

Victorian Screen Development Internships

Film Victoria has partnered with the ABC, Fremantle and Princess Pictures to offer two 9-12 month internships in production and development for early career Victorian creatives from diverse backgrounds to help fast-track their careers to becoming screen content creators. The Victorian Screen Development Internships will help to build content creation skills and knowledge of the current commissioning, funding and production environment within Australia. This program is open to people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds or who are First...

Sydney Film Festival: Summer Season

State Theatre 49 Market St, Sydney, NSW, Australia

For the first-time ever, Sydney Film Festival joins Sydney Festival’s lineup for one weekend only at the State Theatre. Starting with the opening night documentary, Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra, the compelling story of the Page brothers, who took a newly born Australian dance company and turned it into a First Nations cultural powerhouse. High Ground is a tense and powerful Australian outback western starring Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul and Jack Thompson. The triumphant documentary Girls Can’t Surf...

Love & Neon: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai

Dendy Newtown 261-263 King St, Newtown, NSW, Australia

Sydney Film Festival and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) have announced a program of 11 essential films by acclaimed Hong Kong director, Wong Kar Wai, to screen in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) (January 16-31, 2021), Dendy Cinemas Newtown (January 19-February 18, 2021), and tour in select Australian cities across Summer and Autumn 2021. The retrospective includes 11 of Wong's best films, including his moody debut, As Tears Go By (1998), In The Mood For Love (2000); and My Blueberry Nights (2007), starring...