Sydney Film Festival Submissions Open for 2025
PRESS RELEASE Sydney Film Festival invites filmmakers from around Australia and the globe to submit their films for the 72nd edition of the Festival, which will run in cinemas across Sydney in June 2…
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Coastal Surge Film Festival Call for Entries
PRESS RELEASE In 2023, a boon to the arts scene on the Central Coast was launched to a capacity crowd at the Avoca Beach Theatre. The Coastal Surge Film Festival launched with red carpet photos, bran…
Bus Stop Films’ Accessible Film Studies Program is now nationwide
PRESS RELEASE Bus Stop Films, a not-for-profit social enterprise that uses filmmaking to make the world more inclusive, has announced that its programs will be nationwide in 2025. Enrolments for the…
The Lonely Spirits and the King: An Australian Film Book Kickstarter Campaign is Live!
We are thrilled to announce the arrival of our newest book: Lonely Spirits and the King: An Australian Film Book, which has just launched on Kickstarter. To support this mammoth 700-page journey thr…
Five Films You Simply Cannot Miss at the 18th Sydney Underground Film Festival
For eighteen years, the Sydney Underground Film Festival has been one of the very best film festivals operating in Australia. Having screened over 1800 films since the festival kicked off in Marrickvi…
Sydney Underground Film Festival Director Nathan Senn on What Goes Into Running a Film Festival
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. The upcoming 18th Annual Sydney Underground Film Festival kic…
When the school run turns deadly: darkly comic Aussiethriller ‘Buried’ to premiereon YouTube this September
PRESS RELEASE Frantales Productions is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Buried, a darkly funny new five-part digital series about the school drop-off run from hell. Supported by Screen A…
Starring Jerry As Himself Subject Jerry Hsu on the Troubles of Being Recruited as an Undercover Agent
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Law Chen's familial documentary Starring Jerry as Himself…
2024 Melbourne International Film Festival Comes to an End
The 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival has finished this weekend, screening hundreds of films from all over the world, as well as local Australian productions. The 2024 MIFF Award winners wer…
Queer Screen & Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce Announce Partnership for Queer Screen Pitch Off!
PRESS RELEASE Queer Screen invites aspiring Australian LGBTIQ+ filmmakers to participate in the annual Queer Screen Pitch Off, a prestigious opportunity to pitch short film projects for a chance to w…
The Best Films of 2024... So Far
The cinematic year of 2024 was decried so early and so quickly by some that they announced that it would be the “end to theatres”. It wasn't a good sign that The Fall Guy and Furiosa disappointed…
Wake in Fright with the 2024 MIFF Program Release
PRESS RELEASE Beloved cultural event, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has tonight shared its sprawling 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences landing across Me…