Sydney Film Festival 2018 submissions now open – so get cracking, filmmaker friends

Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton has been awarded the 2018 Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award, distributed at the Closing Night of the 65th Sydney Film Festival. The annual $10,000 cash prize is handed every year to an outstanding NSW-based screen practitioner, whose work “stands for innovation, imagination and impact.” Now in its third year, […]

The Sydney Film Festival has declared 2018 its biggest ever year for lesbian cinema. The program for this year’s SFF, which runs from June 6 to June 17, features the largest collection of lesbian cinema so far in the festival’s 63 year history. There are 11 films on the program starring or about women who […]

The program for this year’s Sydney Film Festival has landed. As usual, it’s so chunky ya can’t carve it. This year’s festival, which runs from June 6 to June 17, contains over 260 films in more than 160 languages. There’s lots to go through, so we thought we’d make it easier for you. Below are […]

The Sydney Film Festival has revealed a sneak peak of this year’s program, in advance of the full program launch to be announced on May 9. This first look reveals 26 new films on the line-up for the festival, which runs from June 6 to June 17. This year marks its 65th year. The below […]

The beloved and inimitable Bill Murray is on his way to Australia. Maybe not yet, but he soon will be. The Sydney Opera House today announced the legendary actor will be making his “concert hall debut” later this year, with the acclaimed German-American cellist Jan Vogler & Friends. Murray and his muso pals won’t arrive […]

Cult New York band Morricone Youth will perform original live scores for two classic films at the Sydney Festival, which kicks off in January. The key word is “George.” There will be performances accompanying screenings of George Miller’s 1979 masterpiece Mad Max, and to George Romero’s pioneering 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead. […]

Hundreds of squealing fans congregated around the red carpet last night at Sydney’s premiere of Thor: Ragnarok. Intern Pete, from the Kyle & Jackie O radio program, embarrassed the nation when he asked director Taika Waititi whether this was his first film – but other than that evening seemed to go smoothly. Inside the cinema, […]

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