Events

The Australian Writers’ Guild is calling for entries for the 55th Annual AWGIE Awards. Celebrating the very best in Australian stage and screenwriting, the AWGIE Awards recognise and reward the outstanding achievements of Australian storytellers and their contribution to Australia’s cultural landscape. This year, there are some major updates to the categories, including: • Theatre – stage has been split into original and adapted. • Audio has been split into fiction and non-fiction. • The television series and miniseries categories have been...

Film submissions are open for CinefestOZ 2022, which will be held in the South West of Western Australia from August 24-28. Filmmakers are encouraged to make submissions for the Official Selection and Short Film Program for contention in both the CinefestOZ Albany – hosted in WA’s Great Southern region in April – and CinefestOZ Film Festival in August, which has taken over the South West region for the past 14 years. The 2022 category groups include feature (Film Prize and...

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...