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Canberra Short Film Festival

Column: Features  |  Date Published: Thursday, 2 October 08   |  Author: Cecillia Pattison-Levi   |  2 years ago
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Canberra Short Film Festival

Calling all music video and film makers! Have you ever considered yourself the next Russell Mulcahy (local south coast boy)? His movie making career began with making music videos for Duran Duran, Queen, Icehouse and Elton John. Think this may be the career for you? Then read on…

The CANBERRA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL is a national short film competition open to all short filmmakers in Australia. The festival, now in its 13th year, is a national competition and is Canberra’s premier short film festival. The festival presents quality regional and national short films, is a celebration of local Canberra and Australian filmmaking, and is firmly positioned on the local community’s calendar. This year some changes are being made to make the festival more open to the public and to attract crowds from all across Australia to the Dendy Cinemas in Civic.

Kris Kerehona, director of the Canberra Short Film Festival, is excited that film submissions are coming in fast. “We’ve received a huge number of entries so far” says Kris. “Every day we see more and more films and I have to say, Victoria has the most film entries, so Canberra needs to catch up!”

“The Canberra community is a very welcoming and open place to highlight new film makers,” says Kris. “Even though the festival is under new management, the festival will be the same high quality event that the community expects, so there are no changes in format. We will be having screenings and workshops that people can register for at the website http://silversunpictures.com.au . The topics will range from film technique, to editing and screenwriting. The exciting change has been the hosting of the event in such great surroundings and premises as Dendy. We thought that some minor changes to the festival would bring fresh blood and new ideas.”

The Festival strongly supports the makers and producers of Australian short films. “The quality of films shown at this festival has always been of a very high standard,” says Kris. “Past winners have included the makers of Harvey Crumpet, After Dolly and Crackenback. So the quality has been very high and this competition will be no different. I think that audiences will not only be pleased with the diversity of film genres, but will also be very impressed with the high production values of the films this year.”

Entries for the Canberra Short Film Festival are still open. There are five competitions: four short film categories and one music video competition with cash prizes to be won. Entries close 5.00pm September 30. “For music video film makers and bands, there is still time to get in entries before October 16,” says Kris. “We are hoping that the BMA Magazine Music Video prize will still be accepting entries up until September 30 for competition.” So kids grab that camera and get busy. You’ve got to be in it to win it!

The Canberra Short Film Festival will be screening at the Dendy Cinemas from October 18-20. Early bird tickets will be available with options on exclusive red carpet drinks and screenings.



 

 
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