Festivals

Flickerfest launches new winners onto festival circuit
Run this year in the Famous Spiegeltent, Flickerfest puts a bunch of new short films before the public eye. They…

Visions 2020 full program sets sights on the future of the arts
Our online conference will make sense of 2020 and think through the arts as an essential part of the ‘new…

Sydney Film Festival finds new strategies to honour films
Sydney Film Festival tries for some modest evolution to get some joy from a crappy year with a summer weekend…

Adelaide Film Festival winners: 'art can become a weapon'
A lively group of jurors reached into the heart of Australian creativity and out to an arthouse stunner from Georgia…

NYWF 2020 brings the best of digital programming
National Young Writers Festival is going online from 1-4 October, and their program delves deep into the possibilities that digital…

Screen News in Brief: Production continues, festivals ramp up, Facebook plays hard
Maintaining bubbles of safety is key to the fragile ecology. Meanwhile, proposed legislation battling online giants threatens press diversity and…

NZ Games Festival serves up 'The Pavs' Awards for 2020
The 2020 New Zealand Games Festival might have been postponed, but that didn’t stop them running a gorgeous Awards ceremony…

Adelaide Film Festival goes physical for October
Journalist Phill Liggett, the Bangarra Dance Company and explorations of the violence of white settlement will anchor the 2020 edition…

Screen News in Brief: Brisbane Film Festival goes back to the cinemas
BIFF unveils highlights, MIFF gets ready to go, Screen Australia enterprise recipients and new global initiative for female and non…

Sydney Film Festival discovers the virtues of virtual though real life is better
It worked, says the Sydney Film Festival of its COVID-19 Defiance Edition, and reveals the numbers to prove it.