Very Short Film Festival 2025: ‘seed’ is the signature item

The Very Short Film Festival is free to enter and judges include Essie Davis, Marta Dusseldorp and Leah Purcell.
Very Short Film Festival

Get sprouting because the 2025 Very Short Film Festival (VSFF) is open for entries with ‘seed’ as the signature item. The festival is inviting bite-sized films of two to five minute length for a deadline of 1 April 2025.

Now in its fifth year, the Tasmania-hatched but Australia-wide Very Short Film Festival celebrates contemporary storytelling in the short film form. It champions diverse voices and welcomes entries from Australian creators of all backgrounds and experience levels, whether they’re using phones or ‘old fashioned’ cameras to make the work.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.