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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

TWO ACT FILMS MAKE FINALS OF TROPFEST EXTRA 16

Congratulations to ACT director Liam Newton and his team for his film “Awakening” and Directors Scott Holgate, Tony Nichols and their team for “Every Second Weekend.”

For more information check out the Tropfest website.

posted by ScreenACT at 11:27 am

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LIGHTS! CANBERRA! ACTION! THEME ANNOUNCED

Lights! Canberra! Action! is a Scavenger Hunt for filmmakers. You have 10 days to make a short film including 10 items, around a theme to be in the running for CASH prizes! The 2010 Competition will run from 26th February to 8th March with the Top Twelve Screening & Awards on Friday 12th March.

2010 sees the seventh Lights! Canberra! Action! Filmmaking Festival take off with the new theme announcement. This year's films need to be made around the theme 'The Flipside' - the opposite, the reverse, the bright side, the dark side - interpret however you like!

Venue changes are afoot this year, with the festival making it's gala screening in Garema Place with a screen brought in especially for the event. Lights! Canberra! Action! under the stars in the heart of the City - what's not to love. For more information click here

Deadlines: Filmmaking Feb 26th - March 8th
Top Twelve Screening - March 12th, Garema Place

posted by ScreenACT at 11:27 am

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Australian Film Festival 24th February- 7th March 2010

FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR 2010. CLOSING SOON!!

With only 1 week to go, the count down to the Australian Film Festival is on! Submissions are closing soon for Features, Documentaries, Short Films and 15min Scripts of any genre.
Evolving from the 2009 Australian Film Week, the Australian Film Festival is the country's most exciting presentation of Australian film content.

Held over 12 inspiring days with the iconic Randwick Ritz Cinema as the screening HQ, the festival includes a series of unreleased features, outdoor screenings, the Australian Short Film Festival, FutureFilm screenplay competition, seminars and workshops, fringe events with Q & A's by Australia's best filmmakers, the Spot Food & Film street festival and the Australian Film Walk of Fame.

It’s an exciting time for Australian film so why not be a part of it!
Deadline: 15 February 2010

Visits this link for info on how to enter

posted by ScreenACT at 11:26 am

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AWGIE Awards now open for entries

The AWGIE Awards are the Australian Writers' Guild’s annual awards for excellence in film, television, stage, radio and new media writing. The AWGIEs are the only peer assessed awards for performance writers with judging based on the written script - the writer's intention - rather than the finished production.

AWG President Tim Pye said that “Over forty years, the AWG has been proud to present awards that acknowledge and reward the outstanding work of performance writers. A number of groundbreaking scripts were recognised in 2009 and I'm looking forward to a similar high calibre of writing being nominated this year.”

Over $100,000 in special prizes and fellowships will be presented at the awards including the $25,000 Kit Denton Fellowship which rewards courage and excellence in performance writing, the $25,000 FOXTEL Fellowship recognising an outstanding body of work and the $15,000 John Hinde Award for Science Fiction. The recipient of the Major AWGIE, for Outstanding Australian Script of the Year, will receive the $10,000 Copyright Agency Limited Peer Recognition Prize. The 2009 Major AWGIE was awarded to Warwick Thornton for Samson and Delilah.
AWGIE winners in 2009 also included Louis Nowra and Rachel Perkins for The First Australians, John O’Brien and Christopher Lee for Rush and Andrew Bovell for When the Rain Stops Falling.

The AWG’s recognition of emerging talent continues in 2010 with the extremely popular Short Form and Long Form Monte Miller Awards. These awards for unproduced scripts by an associate member of the Guild are open to all areas of performance writing including film, television and stage.

The 43rd AWGIE Awards will be presented in Melbourne on Friday 20 August 2009.
Entry to the 43rd Annual AWGIE Awards is open to financial members of the AWG.
For entry forms and more information, including special prizes and fellowships, go to www.awg.com.au, email admin@awg.com.au or call 1300 552 228.

Entries for Monte Miller categories close 5.00pm Friday 5 March 2010. All other categories close 5.00 pm Friday 19 March 2010.

The Australian Writers’ Guild has over 2,600 members and is the peak professional body for Australia’s film, television, theatre, radio and new media writers.

posted by ScreenACT at 11:25 am

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