Awards are among the most lucrative film festival prizes in the world.
Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has revealed it will award more than $200,000 in cash prizes at its upcoming edition and has unveiled the nominees for its inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award.
The prize pool, spread across six award categories, is now one of the most lucrative on the film festival circuit. Nearly half is allocated to the Bright Horizons Competition, featuring first and second-time directors, with $95,300 awarded to the winning filmmaker. Those competing for this year’s prize were announced earlier this month.
The festival, which runs...
Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has revealed it will award more than $200,000 in cash prizes at its upcoming edition and has unveiled the nominees for its inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award.
The prize pool, spread across six award categories, is now one of the most lucrative on the film festival circuit. Nearly half is allocated to the Bright Horizons Competition, featuring first and second-time directors, with $95,300 awarded to the winning filmmaker. Those competing for this year’s prize were announced earlier this month.
The festival, which runs...
- 7/27/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Melbourne International Film Festival has confirmed that it will provide $202,000 will go to the winner of its Bright Horizons competition for features by first- and second-time directors. Bragging rights to being the richest film competition in the country previously belonged to the smaller CinefestOZ festival in West Australia, which follows later in August.
The Melbourne festival (in cinemas Aug. 3-20) has this year added two significant prizes: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group, and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award, worth $47,500 recognizing an outstanding Australian creative within a film playing in the Melbourne 2023 program.
Winners across long-form awards categories will be announced at Melbourne’s closing night gala on Aug. 19, These will include the juried prizes and the Miff Audience Award.
The First Nations Film Creative Award supports First Nations talent and storytelling with the recipient awarded a $13,500 cash prize and $16,900 worth of financial services.
The Melbourne festival (in cinemas Aug. 3-20) has this year added two significant prizes: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group, and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award, worth $47,500 recognizing an outstanding Australian creative within a film playing in the Melbourne 2023 program.
Winners across long-form awards categories will be announced at Melbourne’s closing night gala on Aug. 19, These will include the juried prizes and the Miff Audience Award.
The First Nations Film Creative Award supports First Nations talent and storytelling with the recipient awarded a $13,500 cash prize and $16,900 worth of financial services.
- 7/27/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Prince Albert II with Alick Tipoti (© Monaco Expeditions/Ariel Fuchs).
Screen Australia’s Indigenous department is contributing $745,000 in production funding to four documentary projects including two for Nitv and one for the ABC.
Co-funded by Stan, Freshwater Pictures’ Alick and Albert looks at the unlikely friendship between art activist Alick Tipoti and Prince Albert of Monaco.
Commissioned by Nitv, Tamarind Tree Pictures and Roar Film’s Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky is billed as a fresh, funny and provocative look at Captain Cook’s arrival from a First Nations’ perspective.
Also for Nitv, Kalori Productions and Jotz Productions’ feature documentary Kindred explores friendship, adoption and belonging through the relationship between filmmakers Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell Wills.
Commissioned by the ABC, Blackfella Films’ Maralinga Tjarutja will chronicle the history of the Maralinga Tjarutja people and the impact the British nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s had on their land and community.
Screen Australia’s Indigenous department is contributing $745,000 in production funding to four documentary projects including two for Nitv and one for the ABC.
Co-funded by Stan, Freshwater Pictures’ Alick and Albert looks at the unlikely friendship between art activist Alick Tipoti and Prince Albert of Monaco.
Commissioned by Nitv, Tamarind Tree Pictures and Roar Film’s Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky is billed as a fresh, funny and provocative look at Captain Cook’s arrival from a First Nations’ perspective.
Also for Nitv, Kalori Productions and Jotz Productions’ feature documentary Kindred explores friendship, adoption and belonging through the relationship between filmmakers Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell Wills.
Commissioned by the ABC, Blackfella Films’ Maralinga Tjarutja will chronicle the history of the Maralinga Tjarutja people and the impact the British nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s had on their land and community.
- 3/25/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Douglas Watkin (Photo credit: Daniel Aulsebrook).
The Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) and the Screen Australia Indigenous department are again partnering with state screen agencies to enable Indigenous practitioners to attend Aidc 2020.
Running from March 1-3 at the State Library Victoria, the conference will see the return of the Indigenous Creators Program, a strand of sessions designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners in documentary and factual content production.
These private, Indigenous-only sessions will provide targeted information to practitioners from all skill levels around pitching, storytelling, funding, legal and distribution.
There will be one session per day of the conference and the program is open to all Indigenous delegates registered to attend Aidc.
Support to attend the conference and take part in the program is available to practitioners living in the states covered by Film Victoria, Screenwest, Screen Queensland and the South Australian Film Corporation.
Douglas Watkin, Aidc board...
The Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) and the Screen Australia Indigenous department are again partnering with state screen agencies to enable Indigenous practitioners to attend Aidc 2020.
Running from March 1-3 at the State Library Victoria, the conference will see the return of the Indigenous Creators Program, a strand of sessions designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners in documentary and factual content production.
These private, Indigenous-only sessions will provide targeted information to practitioners from all skill levels around pitching, storytelling, funding, legal and distribution.
There will be one session per day of the conference and the program is open to all Indigenous delegates registered to attend Aidc.
Support to attend the conference and take part in the program is available to practitioners living in the states covered by Film Victoria, Screenwest, Screen Queensland and the South Australian Film Corporation.
Douglas Watkin, Aidc board...
- 12/18/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Bruce Davison narrates Hero With A Thousand Faces which features Barack Obama and Jon Stewart.
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has launched documentary arm Doc Mode at Efm with ebola film Hero With A Thousand Faces.
Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Davison narrates Hero With A Thousand Faces, which hails from the producers of the acclaimed Blackfish and is directed by Joel Clark.
Tony Blair, Bono, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart and Jeffrey Wright are featured in the film, which The Orchard released recently in the Us.
“We look forward to showing footage to buyers in Berlin and to opening up Doc Mode to present exceptional, commercially driven documentaries that will entice audiences all over the world,” Epstein said.
The initial Doc Mode slate includes Wildbear Entertainment’s Ballerina (formerly Ella) about renowned indigenous Australian dancer Ella Havelka and produced by Veronica Fury of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films. Douglas Watkin directed...
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has launched documentary arm Doc Mode at Efm with ebola film Hero With A Thousand Faces.
Oscar-nominated actor Bruce Davison narrates Hero With A Thousand Faces, which hails from the producers of the acclaimed Blackfish and is directed by Joel Clark.
Tony Blair, Bono, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart and Jeffrey Wright are featured in the film, which The Orchard released recently in the Us.
“We look forward to showing footage to buyers in Berlin and to opening up Doc Mode to present exceptional, commercially driven documentaries that will entice audiences all over the world,” Epstein said.
The initial Doc Mode slate includes Wildbear Entertainment’s Ballerina (formerly Ella) about renowned indigenous Australian dancer Ella Havelka and produced by Veronica Fury of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films. Douglas Watkin directed...
- 2/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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