Sony Catchlight Film Festival: Submissions

After staging the Sony Film Festival last year, Sony returns with the Catchlight Film Festival to showcase short-form filmmaking shot on Sony cameras across Australia and New Zealand. Entries can be submitted across four categories - Fiction (scripted), Non-Fiction (documentary), Student Fiction, and Music Video. Each category-winning film will be awarded with a unique experience specific to that category as well as a prize package of Sony digital imaging products, supported by Sony Electronics. Sony will be hosting a night...

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...