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2009
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Little Big Shots - International Film Festival for Kids
ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne: 3 - 5 and 6 - 8 June
Perfect for families and kids aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and travelling children's film festival. It's also an inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival of the best in local and international children's features, shorts, animations, documentaries and, amazingly, child-produced films.
www.littlebigshots.com
Sydney Film Festival
3 - 14 June
Sydney Film Festival is New South Wales' pre-eminent showcase for contemporary cinema from Australia and around the world. Established in 1954, Sydney Film Festival is a major cultural event on the city's social calendar and one of the world's longest running film festivals. A series of official competition talks will also take place, giving the audience a chance to meet some of the films' creators - visit 'Events' for more details.
See a list of
the Australian films screening at the Sydney Film Festival 2009.
www.sff.org.au
Serious Games Conference - X Media Lab
The Establishment, Sydney 12 June
Presented in partnership
with ABC TV and Screen Australia at the Sydney Film Festival.
X Media Lab's Serious Games conference provides a forum for game developers,
documentary filmmakers and industry professionals to examine the future course of serious
games development in areas such as education, government, health and corporate training. Keynote speakers include Noah Falstein, Ondi Timoner, Lee Sheldon, Ian Bogost, Joshua Harris, and Michel Moi.
www.xmedialab.com
Australian Directors Guild presents: Kate Woods - Working with actors
20 June, Melbourne (note booking deadline is 1 June)
Awarded TV director Kate Woods (Without a Trace, Bones, MDA, Simone de Beauvoir's Babies, Law and Order) presents this exciting hands-on masterclass for directors working and wanting to work in television. The masterclass will consist of a forum where Kate will present ways of preparing to direct, followed by individual workshopping with actors.
www.adg.org.au/events.aspx
Melbourne International Animation Festival and AIAF Tour
22 - 28 June
Melbourne and national
The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is one of the largest animation festivals in the world. It usually screens around 350-400 films each year in competitive, student, curated and retrospective programs.
www.miaf.net
Experimenta
Playground National Tour, Bendigo Art Gallery: 25 April - 7 June
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
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
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival Tour
2009
National
After the Sydney festival Flickerfest tours to 17 venues around Australia.
www.flickerfest.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
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
