EFFA presents: Sovereign Cinema

ACMI, Melbourne Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Environmental Film Festival Australia will celebrates Indigenous perspectives on climate, ecology, culture and custodianship with EFFA presents: Sovereign Cinema, a one-day mini-festival, on Saturday 10 December 2022. The program pays tribute and respect to First Nations’ experiences with land, water, sky and seas. Audiences are invited to experience the world, near and far, through the eyes of First Nations Peoples and engage in meaningful conversations about people, place and environmental practices. The program invites sharing and yarning with cinema responding...

Sony Future Filmmaker Awards: Submissions

Creo has announced the launch of Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, a major new annual awards program for short films. Sponsored by Sony and free to enter, the Awards set out to elevate original voices from around the globe with a fresh perspective on storytelling. Thirty shortlisted filmmakers will be selected and flown to Los Angeles for the Awards ceremony, taking place on February 22, 2023 in the Cary Grant Theatre at the Sony Pictures studio lot in Culver City, California....

How I See It: Blak Art and Film – ACMI

ACMI, Melbourne Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ACMI has announced its next major exhibition, How I See It: Blak Art and Film, a presentation showcasing works that explore new visions from eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives. Spanning moving image, installation, documentary, photography and video games, How I See It is designed to amplify artists and filmmakers’ perspectives on representation, the gaze, colonial archives, and knowledge systems. Curated by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung), the exhibition t will unveil five new commissions by Amrita Hepi, Jazz Money,...

ACMI: Days of Summer

ACMI, Melbourne Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

ACMI celebrates the hottest season of the year on screen. Program highlights include Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989), Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980) and Peter Weir's Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).