2009
JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
2 - 12 July
Revelation brings to Perth national and international guests from the production, screen culture and broadcast sectors as well as providing some of the finest independent work on show in Australia curated with vision and purpose.
www.revelationfilmfest.org
St Kilda Film Festival Tour
11 - 16 July in Queensland, 19 - 25 in NSW, 30 July - 1 August in Canberra
Don’t miss your chance to see ‘The Best of the Fest’ as the St Kilda Film Festival hits the road from July till September, taking in over 30 destinations Australia-wide with a selection of shorts that includes Festival award winners and stand out favourites. The range of films reflects the artful hope and aspirations of our most accomplished filmmakers testing the creative limits and pushing the artistic envelope.
www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au
Melbourne International Film Festival
25 July - 10 August
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an iconic Melbourne event. In addition to screening films from around fifty countries, MIFF is Australia's largest showcase of new Australian cinema and most vocal champion of both emerging and established local filmmaking talent. View the list of Australian films screening.
www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au
37 South: Melbourne International Film Festival
24 - 27 July
MIFF’s Film co-financing Market. Organised by the industry programs unit of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), 37 South brings the global film financing marketplace to Melbourne’s Forum Theatre and Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) in the opening days of MIFF. 37 South enables Australian producers with market-ready feature-length projects to meet with key international film co-financiers in Melbourne. The emphasis is on producers pitching projects to financiers with the aim of deepening marketplace relationships and generating financier interest in their slates.
www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au
Brisbane International Film Festival
30 July - 9 August
Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) provides a focus for film culture in Queensland by showcasing the best and most interesting cinema from around the world. Each year BIFF draws film enthusiasts to view an entertaining mix of local and international films, retrospectives and colourful events that embrace the vibrant art of filmmaking.
www.biff.com.au
Experimenta
Playground National Tour, Albury Library Museum: 24 July - 7 September
Experimenta is Australia’s leading contemporary arts organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting and promoting media art. Since 1986 Experimenta has promoted new media and digital arts through a vibrant program of exhibitions, screenings, artist commissions and exhibition tours.
www.experimenta.org
Popcorn Taxi
Sydney & Melbourne
Popcorn Taxi is a regular in-depth film event where filmmakers and enthusiasts can meet, watch films of all types, and discuss the filmmaking process.
www.popcorntaxi.com.au
In the Bin Tour
2009
In The Bin has now toured to over 60 communities nation wide taking in places the likes of Cooktown and Coober Pedy, no place is too big or too small just ask Andamooka. The festival has created an Education Program to work alongside the touring festival where students create, shoot and edit their own short film within a three day period.
www.inthebin.net.au
World of Women - WOW Film Festival National Tour
2009
This is a short film festival that promotes and awards the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry and in Oceania. It is a unique festival that offers emerging and established filmmakers the opportunity to screen short works giving a thematic perspective of “seeing the world through the eyes of women”.
www.wift.org/wow/WOW_tour.htm