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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...

Armenian Film Festival Australia

Event Cinemas, Top Ryde

The Armenian Film Festival Australia returns for its 6th edition to Melbourne and Sydney, with a slate of impressive films, including 45 Days: The Fight for a Nation – a film by British conflict documentary journalist reporter and filmmaker, Emile Ghessen, who in 2020, was on the ground covering the largely unreported 44-day war on the indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by Azerbaijan, backed by NATO member Turkey. Now in Ukraine, Emile will be making his way to Australia...

Sony Catchlight Film Festival: Submissions

After staging the Sony Film Festival last year, Sony returns with the Catchlight Film Festival to showcase short-form filmmaking shot on Sony cameras across Australia and New Zealand. Entries can be submitted across four categories - Fiction (scripted), Non-Fiction (documentary), Student Fiction, and Music Video. Each category-winning film will be awarded with a unique experience specific to that category as well as a prize package of Sony digital imaging products, supported by Sony Electronics. Sony will be hosting a night...