Events

Dome Under Festival returns to the Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks in February, offering a weekend of fulldome films. Unlike traditional cinema experiences, the fulldome films will unfold across the entire 16-metre domed ceiling of the Melbourne Planetarium, providing a hemispherical view, coupled with a state-of-the-art 5.1 surround sound system. As the sole fulldome film festival in Australia, Dome Under Festival boasts 26 films from 13 countries that have been curated into seven themed sessions, including Kids, Astronomy, Music to Melt...

The 2024 AACTA Awards will take place on Saturday, February 10, preceded by the AACTA Industry Awards on February 8. Both ceremonies will be held at the Home of the Arts (HOTA) on the Gold Coast. A five-day festival spanning February 7-11 will be held to coincide with the awards, featuring a day devoted exclusively to First Nations content and creatives, networking hubs, and a Screen Careers Expo for those curious about pursuing a career in film or television. Tickets...

Vista Group will hold its 2024 conference in Auckland, New Zealand for the first since 2019. Held at the Aotea Centre, the event will bring cinema and entertainment industry representatives from across the globe to New Zealand to share their experience and learn about the latest innovations in technology solutions designed to power the global film industry. Geared towards those in the film and cinema industry, from exhibitors to studios and distributors, attendees will have the opportunity to network and...

The 56th Annual AWGIE Awards, hosted by the Australian Writers' Guild, will be held on the evening of February 15 in Sydney. The awards celebrate writing across screen, stage, interactive and audio. The formalities will be co-hosted by Alex Lee and Suren Jayemanne.

The South Australian Game Exhibition (SAGE) returns to Adelaide Studios this year as the flagship event on the Adelaide Fringe Interactive program. Presented by the South Australian Film Corporation, SAGE is a super showcase of South Australia’s video game development sector, with a huge range of locally made games on display to see and play. SAGE allows video game fans, players, enthusiasts and everyone in between to experience exciting new South Australian made games first-hand and meet the people behind...

Over two nights The Capitol will be the spookiest place in Melbourne, as it hosts Screams on Screen, a curated program to feature live music, art, feature films, rarely seen experimental shorts, and artist and director talks. The program includes a 10-year anniversary screening of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, a selection of art/horror auteur David Lynch’s rarely screened earliest experimental shorts (1967-68) as well as new shorts from some of Australia’s finest emerging and established artists, a 4K restoration of...

The BLUSSH Romance Festival is Brisbane's newest festival celebrating films and literature through a romance lens. The festival boasts a diverse program that includes premieres, previews, retrospectives, iconic classics, and adaptations from book to film. Romance literature and its subgenres will be explored across three panels during the festival, featuring notable authors and industry experts. The pink carpet will be rolled out at the Angelika Film Centre, the home of BLUSSH in Woolloongabba, for the Opening Night Gala with the...

Now an established annual event, the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova in February with 10 sessions of sci-fi/fantasy films. This year’s Melbourne line-up will include 16 Australian premieres of features France, Canada, Macedonia, Sweden, The United States and The United Kingdom. The short-film roster of 12 titles includes works Chinese visual effects sector, Polish animation and three works from Australian directors. Opening Night honours go to French director Damien Faure’s Pyramiden, starring David D'Ingéo as the lone...

The Best Films You've Never Seen series returns to Melbourne's The Captiol in 2024, with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), ranked #24 and #25 respectively in Sight and Sound Magazine's 100 Greatest Films of All Time list. 2:30 pm - Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee writes, directs and stars in this story about racial conflict in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. On a scorchingly hot summer day,...