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...

Light: Works from Tate’s Collection

ACMI, in an Australian exclusive, will present a major exhibition of more than 70 works from the national collection of British art institution, Tate. Light: Works from Tate’s Collection premieres as part of the Victorian Government’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. Curated by Tate, UK and drawing from its prestigious collection, Light features over 70 works spanning 200 years of art history including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, kinetic art, installation and the moving image. Light celebrates groundbreaking moments as artists from...

Impact Australia – Submissions

Screenwriter accelerator program Impact Australia will return to Melbourne for its third year. The Australian edition of the intensive eight-week program will be delivered by international entertainment start-up Impact and Melbourne-based production company Gentle Giant Media Group, and designed to discover, cultivate and empower diverse Australian screenwriters, with the goal of accelerating projects to be pitch-ready for global buyers and producers. Impact is funded by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and led by CEO Tyler Mitchell. Since its inception in 2018,...

2022 Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG) Awards – Submissions

Submissions are open for this year's Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) Awards, with prizes to be handed down across 20 categories. In some notable changes, a new award will be presented for Best Direction in a Debut Feature Film. Entries for this award can be narrative, documentary, or animation and the category has no budget requirements. There is also a new award for Best Direction in an Online Mobile-First Series Episode. Two other feature film categories have been renamed; Best Direction...