St Kilda Film Festival has today announced the full 2024 program including Australia’s top short films. Presented by City of Port Phillip the program features more than 150 films to be shown over 52 screening sessions at venues across St Kilda and South Melbourne. The famous opening night event will be held at The Astor…
Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. St Kilda Film Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Sowada as Festival Director for 2020. Richard is a highly respected film festival director, programmer and curator who brings over two decades’ experience in the screen culture sector. Richard founded the Revelation Perth…
Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, the St Kilda Film Festival, has today announced this year’s award nominees who are in the running for more than $50,000 worth of cash and prizes across 18 categories. As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary are…
The St Kilda Film Festival has revealed its exciting ten-day calendar for the 2016 event; running from Thursday 19 to Saturday 28 May 2016. Proudly produced by the City of Port Phillip, the Festival will kick off with Opening Night on Thursday 19 May, where the Palais Theatre will welcome 3,000 industry guests and film-lovers on the red carpet…
Entry dates for the annual St Kilda Film Festival competitions have been extended, with Australia’s Top 100 short film competition and The SoundKILDA music video competition remaining open until Sunday 14 February 2016. The St Kilda Film Festival provides emerging Australian filmmakers and professionals the chance to have their works shown on the big screen, and be in the running for…
The St Kilda Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2015 SoundKILDA competition with Samuel Lewis taking out the top prize of Best Music Video for his directorial debut on Elliot the Bull’s Colourblind, a stop-motion animation featuring a tale of two geometric wooden characters. This year’s SoundKILDA competition showcased Australia’s top creative collaborations with eighteen clips from local and international musicians created…
Australia’s longest-standing and publicly owned short film festival, St Kilda Film Festival, has today announced this year’s award nominees who are in the running for more than $50,000 worth of cash and prizes across 16 categories. As an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event, the winners of this year’s Best Short Film and Best Documentary are eligible for consideration in the OSCARS® Short Film and OSCARS® Documentary…
“The theme stayed the same, it was a shift in tone that was needed.” Written exclusively for Cinema Australia by Josef Ber: I started writing the script for Jack’s Promise a few years ago. I wanted to explore a character who was struggling with his past choices and wasn’t in the greatest of places in…
“It was a surreal, occasionally out-of-body experience.” Written by Matt Holcomb exclusively for Cinema Australia: I have made only a handful of short films – far less than I would have liked to have made at this point. I don’t consider myself to be a natural short-form storyteller; it’s just not something that comes easily to…
“Anyone familiar with the attention span of a seven-year-old will understand this was no easy task.” Written by Alister Grierson exclusively for Cinema Australia: Imagination Game began, like many ideas, as a conversation on a bus. My wife, Skye, had stumbled across a cult of conspiracy theorists online who had bought into the idea that…
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