Phillip Noyce guest speaker at Sydney Film School Festival this WednesdayAustralian director Phillip Noyce will be the keynote speaker at the closing night of the Sydney Film School Festival, Wednesday December 13 at the Palace Academy Twin, Paddington.The Festival will showcase 50 student major works, including both documentary and drama for their 2006 graduation. Awards will be given for outstanding achievement across a range of areas, and audiences will be given the opportunity to vote for ...
Three talented artists from the Academy award-winning team at Sony Pictures Imageworks (US) and Sony Pictures Animation will be anchoring the Australian Effects & Animation Festival Sydney. They will be providing an inside view of three of the year’s biggest cinema events: Superman Returns, Monster House and Open Season.
Day One sees Imageworks’ animation supervisor Troy Saliba deliver the opening presentation on the animated feature film Monster House, which utilizes the proprietary Ima...
DIGITAL MEDIA FESTIVAL 2006 Sydney Convention Centre, December 5-7 Booking formsSESSION UPDATESAustralian Effects & Animation Festival - December 5-7Monster House Animation Supervisor Troy Saliba will be presenting at this at this year’s AEAF conference. Sony Pictures Animation has confirmed that CG Supervisor Max Bruce will be attending to present the session on the new CG animated feature Open Season, due out in Australian cinemas November 30. Also on the blockbuster program for this year’...
Films submitted
The submissions must be original short films with rights owned by the submitter or with proper authorization to submit. Proof of ownership will be asked before prize are awarded.
Language: original language or (readable) subtitles in either English or French.
No R rated movies, no sex, violence or hate, no racial or religious insults… are allowed.
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The countdown is now on for the launch of the Digital Media Festival (DMF), 5-7 December at Sydney’s Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. With only a month to go, the final program of speakers has now been locked in for Australia’s leading digital arts forum and exhibition.Bringing together some of the world’s finest creative artists, video producers, filmmakers and imaging professionals, the DMF consists of three conference streams, the Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF), the...
Industry News
David Lynch confirms self distribution of Inland Empire to hit cinemas soon!
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Gamers screening @ Home Brewed Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) on 23rd October and available now @ Buygamers.com
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Industry News
David Lynch confirms self distribution of Inland Empire to hit cinemas soon!
Survival Tips for Independent Filmmakers in New York Times Article
Pakistan zombie horror film coming soon!
Gamers screening @ Home Brewed Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) on 23rd October and available now @ Buygamers.com
Event Wrap
Woodstock Film Festival (NYC) Winners
Event PreviewLondon Film Festival commences on the 18th October to 2nd November
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley won Ken Loach the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, and its star, Cillian Murphy reckons that’s just where the credit should go, with a film that tackles a pivotal moment in Irish/British history. For a Cork-born lad, it’s very close to home, he tells Andrew L. Urban.Cillian (pronounced with a K) Murphy arrived in Sydney on a Monday morning from the North American premiere of The Wind That Shakes The Barley at the Toronto film festival, via a short Los...
With this his second (and last) Festival, Artistic Director Lynden Barber has again shown an astute ability to mix the provocative with the seductive, the challenging with the entertaining, giving patrons a snapshot of the concerns and amusements of filmmakers from around the world. Andrew L. Urban samples the menu.In a world troubled by violence, defeated by poverty, racked by intolerance and engulfed in conflict, it’s appropriate that a major film festival such as Sydney’s should gather fi...
2006 is onedotzero's tenth anniversary, and will be celebrated with very special events, projects and programming. onedotzero has grown from a pioneering weekend festival at the ICA in the mid-nineties, to become "the most crucial, groundbreaking festival of the early 21st century" [Guardian Film Unlimited], as well as being renowned as a DVD label and as a highly influential production company, producing programmes for Channel 4, and live tour visuals for The Rolling Stones, U2 and Little Brita...
Malibu - The Malibu Film Festival wrapped it’s 7th year here Monday and it seems like after a few false starts this regional festival is finding an identity. Malibu Beach is a community that is known worldwide. The point break at Surfriders is where the sport of surfing gained popularity in the early 60’s and the town is home to countless residents associated with the entertainment and record industry. This years festival featured a potent combination of surf/skate films, music documentaries...
For the fifth time German Films is joining with the Goethe Institutes in Sydney und Melbourne to stage a Festival of German Films in four cities and would like to achieve the record admissions from 2005 – last year more than 16,000 cinemagoers had the opportunity to see German films. From April 20 - 30, the festival will be showing a broad spectrum of German filmmaking in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra.The following films are in the programme, including some new titles from the Berl...
Directors Guild of America Vice President Betty Thomas today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2005. “What makes the DGA award truly meaningful to directors is the knowledge that only this award is decided solely by their peers – the men and women who know the passion and energy that go into each production,” said Thomas in announcing the nominations. “My congratulations to all five nominees for demonstrating how vi...
50th CORK FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS Jameson Award for Best Irish Short FilmKilling The Afternoon, dir. Margaret CorkerySpecial MentionThe Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish, dir. Andrew LeggeClaire Lynch Award for Best First Short by an Irish DirectorHitch, dir. Mik DuffyBest International Short FilmMuseum Piece (Hotel Diaries 2) dir. John SmithSpecial MentionsHeydar, An Afghan in Tehran, dir. Babak Jalali. Iran/EnglandAutobiographical Scene No. 6882, dir. Ruben Östlund, SwedenYouth Jury A...
From September 14th –18th, Vancouver will unroll the red carpet to welcome an array of films and documentaries from around the world during the second edition of the Vancouver International Hip Hop Film Festival (VIHF).The Hip Hop Film genre, though very much representative of global social, economical, political and artistic realities, is still struggling to find podiums. VIHF’s objective is to give these film jewels, a niche in Canada as they have found in such cities as Sydney, Melbourne,...
Greek box office blitzer to open the Greek Film FestivalThe Greek Film Festival of Sydney will open on September 8 at Palace Norton Street, Leichhardt with the Greek box office hit ‘Brides’, director by Pantelis Voulgaris with executive producer Martin Scorsese. Brides, winner of 10 awards at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival including Best Feature Film, is a bittersweet love story set against the tribulations of a 1922 Atlantic crossing of 700 proxy brides, aboard the SS King Ale...
Of the stars of Little Fish, only Cate Blanchett was unable to turn up, but Hugo Weaving, Noni Hazlehurst, Joel Tobeck, Lisa McCune and Daniela Farinacci were the main attraction on the red carpet for the Opening Night of the Melbourne Film Festival (July 20-August 7) at the Village City Centre, the event hosted by the new current affairs mag, The Monthly.Little Fish director Rowan Woods, screenwriter Jacquelin Perske, producers Liz Watts, Richard Keddie and Vincent Sheehan were also carpeted, a...
A selection of the best Australian short films will screen in a mini festival this Saturday 25 June when the finalists in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films are shown at the State Theatre.The 17 finalists across six categories will have a one-off public screening during the last day of the Festival with the winners announced on Closing Night.This year’s finalists cover such diverse topics as offal eating, capitalism, apartheid, the quest for freedom, family, faith and first dates and ...
The 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival takes place from july 20 to August 7. EDGY EUROPE, CHAN FROM CHINA – NOTHING LIKE SYDNEYFrom Lukas Moodysson’s provocative A Hole in My Heart to Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s confronting 4, this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival explores edgy European cinema, as well as films direct from Cannes, and takes a look at Chinese cinema, with a focus on the revealing and entertaining director, Fruit Chan – among many other things, as Executive D...
The 9th Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival Awards for 2005 go to;Just in case you don't know what Over The Fence is. OTF is a comedy festival that tours all over this great Nation. We go from the Big urban spaces to dusty towns. This year we toured from Mossman to Adelaide, Darwin to Melbourne, and Broome to Yackandandah & 30+ places in between.With a tour line like "Expect Something Different" you get we are going do something new in '05 while still delivering our core promises; an extraordina...
As festival judge Geoffrey Rush announced the winners in front of a 130,000 strong national audience, bursting at the seams to fit into Sydney’s Domain for Sydney’s Tropfest, he proudly declared; “When I look out here at the enormous crowd, and at all the talent up on stage, I see the Australian film industry is not in the doldrums!” It was a night full of surprises; Firstly, because it didn’t rain. (Gloomy weather had threatened to rain on Sydney’s red carpet parade, but just as ...
FILM SERIES ON ARTISTS COINCIDES WITH NEW YORK PROJECTThe husband-and-wife team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whose distinctive art pieces include the wrapping in fabric of such architectural icons as the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf in Paris, are coming to New York in February with their latest fantasy art project. The couple will transform New York’s Central Park into a fairyland of saffron-colored covered objects and archway gates. It is among the most audacious and controversial p...
LAUNCH OF THE JACKSON HOLE FILM INSTITUTECREATES NEW OPPORTUNITY AND RESOURCES FOR THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER The independent filmmaker has gained a new ally in the pursuit of expanding and growing the art of independent film through the formation of the Jackson Hole Film Institute (JHFI). This nonprofit cultural organization has been created to empower the independent filmmaker. The JHFI strives to inspire a global audience through the cultivation and education of film, the business of film and...
The 2005 Adelaide Film Festival has announced the inclusion of a major new programming strand to examine architecture and the built environment.Entitled Architecture and Film, the strand will run from 24 February to 3 March and has been made possible through funding from the Department of Environment and Heritage. The program includes features, documentaries and short films from around the world and a FREE public forum conducted by Stephen Loo, Director of the Architecture Program of the Univers...
HDFEST Announces 2004 Deffie Awards at NYC Festival Tour FinaleOn Sunday, December 5th at the Tribeca Grand Screen Theatre, HDFEST announced the winners of its 2004 HDFEST Deffie Awards to cheering crowds of festival-goers. The December New York event was the conclusion to the HDFEST 2004 World Tour which began in May 2004 and featured six high-definition festival events. Alongside indie HD films and high-definition filmmaking panel discussions, the HDFEST New York event also included special ...
