Queer Screen's 29th Mardi Gras Film Festival is coming up February 17 - March 3 and is looking for LGBTIQ+ feature films, documentaries, shorts or episodics. MGFF22 includes Australia's richest prize for LGBTIQ+ short films, My Queer Career.
The Revelation Perth International Film Festival commissioning collaboration with the City of Vincent provides $7,000 to three local filmmakers to produce a non-fiction short (10-min or less) highlighting a story from within the municipality. Successful filmmakers are mentored through the process from start to finish, receiving guidance on technical requirements, storytelling fundamentals, post-production techniques, and marketing and communication strategies. The films will screen at a special gala during the 25th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival, which is taking place...
The third annual Croatian Film Festival will be held in November at Parramatta's Riverside Theatre. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W73V2A2u1gY]
A philanthropic grant of $80,000 from artist and filmmaker Ling Ang will go towards the creation of an immersive XR work that “celebrates, interrogates, and illuminates” Melbourne, as well as Melbourne International Film Festival’s role in the city’s cultural sector. The XR Commission will premiere on the MIFF XR platform in 2022.
Dendy Newtown will be hosting a program of Denis Villeneuve’s entire filmography in the lead up to the release of Dune on December 3. This includes Villeneuve’s earliest films August 32nd on Earth, Maelström, and Polytechnique (accompanied by his short film Next Floor), his Academy Award-nominated breakthrough Incendies, and his critically acclaimed films of recent years - Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Arrival, and Blade Runner 2049.
