ABC Art Works Documentary Initiative: Submissions

Screenwest and ABC Arts have opened applications for the ABC Art Works Documentary Initiative, a $10,000 production opportunity designed to offer a broadcast credit to Western Australian filmmakers. Up to four emerging to mid-career producer and director teams will be selected to each produce and deliver a 3-8 minute documentary segment profiling the work of a resident Western Australian artist or arts company, for broadcast on ABC and ABC iview as part of this Art Works. Hosted by Namila Benson, Art...

CinefestOZ Albany 2023

The four-day CinefestOZ Albany celebrates the best in Australian film. Events are spread across the region’s cinemas and venues,...

SWANA Film Festival

Riverside Theatres Corner Market and Church St, Parramatta, NSW, Australia

The first-ever SWANA Film Festival, presented by Arts & Cultural Exchange (ACE) Parramatta, is a three day festival of Southwest Asian and North African cinema screening at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta across the weekend. The festival will screen 20 unique films across the program, from Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Armenia, and Syria. These include two LGBTQIA+ films and represent more than five languages. Australian premieres include opening night film Baghdad in My Shadow by Swiss-Iraqi filmmaker Samir (Iraqi Odyssey) and...

2023 German Film Festival

The 2023 German Film Festival will screen May 2 – 24 at Palace Cinemas nationally as well as Palace Nova and Luna Palace Cinemas. First highlights include Margarethe von Trotta's Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert and Frauke Finsterwalder's  Sisi & I , both of which premiered in Berlin. This year’s line features the Sönke Wortmann's sequel to 2019 hit comedy of manners How About Adolf? (GFF19), Family Affairs, which reunites the families from the first film, this time...

Screen Forever 2023

Gold Coast

Uniting the pillars of entertainment, media, and technology, Screen Forever is one of the largest congregations of screen industry professionals in the Southern Hemisphere, attended by a broad cross-section of the Australian screen business. Discussions encompass aspects of producing, creating, writing, directing, distributing, and financing screen content across film, television, games, interactive, and online. The event will conclude with the annual SPA Awards, featuring categories such as Animated Production of the Year, Feature Film Production of the Year, Commissioner of...