With a mammoth prize pool of over $300,000AUD on offer, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has been unveiled the nominees and esteemed juries for the annual MIFF Awards. Shining a light on local and international filmmaking excellence, this year’s categories includes the newly coined Uncle Jack Charles Award, recently renamed in honour of the…
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Melbourne International Film Festival Program Revealed
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Beloved cultural event, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has shared its impressive 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences landing across Melbourne, around Victoria and online Australia-wide this August. Running 8-25 August, this year’s film line-up boasts a world class roster of international features, an assembly of stellar World Premiere local…
RACV on Hook Turns
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An RACV poll has found that 44 per cent of Victorian respondents feel hook turns are the most challenging driving practice on Victorian roads. This was followed by parallel parking, reverse parking and three-point turns. Mostly distinctive to Melbourne, hook turns are right turns made from a left-hand lane, originally introduced to mitigate the hold…
Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 First Glance
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The highly anticipated new feature from Melbourne-born Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot will officially open the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) when the beloved cultural event returns this August. Proudly screening in Naarm and surrounds from 8-25 August, MIFF brings together some of the most talked about films of the year, hotly anticipated hits from…
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2024 AIDC AWARDS NOMINEES & SOUTHERN LIGHT AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
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The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed the exceptional nominees for the 4th annual AIDC Awards, and also announced the winner of the inaugural AIDC Southern Light Award for outstanding contribution to nonfiction screen, digital and/or audio media.The AIDC Awards recognise outstanding works of new Australian documentary and factual content across six categories: Best…
AIDC Announce Projects and Teams Selected for The FACTory International Pitching Showcase
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AIDC have announced 15 projects and teams selected to take part in The FACTory International Pitching Showcase, held at The Edge, Fed Square, during AIDC 2024 (3-6 March, ACMI, Melbourne / Naarm). Proudly presented by VicScreen and now in its ninth year, The FACTory is AIDC’s centrepiece pitching event for new documentary and factual projects.…
Melbourne & Sydney to Screen Here Be Dragons
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Here Be Dragons will screen on Monday 11 December 2023 at Dendy Newtown, presented by the Veterans Film Festival [VFF] and the Inner West Film Fest, in support of VFF’s film exhibitions and Screen Warriors training program. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Alastair Newton Brown, Nathan Clark Sapsford and Veterans Film…
AIDC Announces The Showroom
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The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has today announced its new slate-pitching marketplace, The Showroom, catering to Australian production companies specialising in documentary and factual content. “Taking the AIDC marketplace to the next level, we are thrilled to introduce the inaugural Showroom pitch to give Australian production companies an unmissable opportunity to pitch their slate…
Geena Davis to open Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion Exhibition
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ACMI have announced a pivotal new partnership with two-time Academy Award-winning actor and advocate Geena Davis and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The iconic actor is set to travel to Melbourne as lead ambassador for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces blockbuster, Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion. The ACMI-curated exhibition opens at Australia’s national museum…