AWGIE Award recipients will be announced at the 54th Annual AWGIE Awards via an online ceremony broadcast on YouTube Tuesday, December 7. Awards will be presented across 19 individual categories, including feature film, television, documentary, theatre, audio, animation and children’s television. Individual category winners will be eligible for the Major Award, given to the most outstanding script of the year.
The 2021 AACTA Awards will be held at the iconic Sydney Opera House on Wednesday, December 8. The awards will honour Australian television, film, and digital entertainment performers and creatives for their remarkable achievements over the past year.
The Supporting Cinemas’ Retention Endurance and Enhancement of Neighbourhoods (SCREEN) Fund provides support to independent cinema operators who have experienced significant declines in revenue due to COVID-19 in the form of one-off grants, up to $85,000. The SCREEN Fund is a capped $20 million fund.
The 2022 program for Sydney's Westpac Openair is headlined by a dozen premiere or preview screenings, commencing on opening night with the inspirational tennis bio-pic King Richard, which stars two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith as the father of young tennis prodigies Venus and Serena Williams. There’s the Australian premiere of Kenneth Brannagh’s Death on The Nile, as well as previews of Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley (starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette); Joe Wright’s Cyrano; Pablo Larrain’s Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Diana; and British...
Short film festival Flickerfest celebrates its 31st birthday in 2022, kicking off the summer cinema season in pop-up festival garden under the stars and under the big top, park side at Bondi Beach from January 21. The ten day event will showcase some of the worlds best short films from Australia and the world on the big screen. This year, Flickerfest has handpicked 200 of the most inspiring short films from a massive pool of over 3,150 entries, to move,...
