Festival

Festival presentation: 

Sydney Film Festival is one of the longest running film festivals in the world screening feature films, documentaries & short films across 12 days every winter.Each year the festival brings the best new films from around the world to audiences right here in Sydney.

The festival hosts a number of awards to recognise excellence in filmmaking, including the FOXTEL Australian Documentary Award, the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films and the Official Competition, which celebrates ‘courageous and audacious filmmaking’ and has a cash prize of AUD$60,000.00

As well as brand new features from over fifty countries, we screen short films, Australian films, documentaries and archive titles, many of which are recently restored, for a total of more than 250 screenings in six venues.

There were more than 143,000 attendances to the 60th Sydney Film Festival in June 2013, and 2014 is shaping up to be even bigger, please join us!

Festival Nickname: 

Sydney Film Festival

Edition: 

62

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Theme: 

not specified

Category/Format: 

Mixed

Sydney Film Festival is one of the world's longest-running film festivals, and is a major event on the Australian cultural calendar. The 12-day festival screens feature films, documentaries, short films and animation from around the world in venues across the city including the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays and the Art Gallery of NSW. SFF also takes place at Apple Store Sydney, SFFTV @ Martin Place and Grasshopper Lounge. New this year is Sydney Film Festival Hub @ Lower Town Hall, featuring free exhibitions, talks, panels, parties, live music, performances and DJs in the Mitsubishi Theatrette.
Under the curatorial helm of Festival Director Nashen Moodley, the 2012 festival showcased 156 films from 51 countries in 49 languages.
The flagship program of Sydney Film Festival is the Official Competition, which was established in 2008 and celebrates 'courageous, audacious and cutting-edge' cinema. The Sydney Film Prize and $60,000 cash is awarded by a jury of five Australian and international filmmakers and industry professionals to the winner among the 12 titles selected for the Official Competition. The Official Competition is endorsed by Federation Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films.
Sydney Film Festival encourages and supports excellence in Australian filmmaking via FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize and the long-running Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films. The other awards for films screened at SFF are the Community Relations Commission For a Multicultural NSW (CRC) Award, the Peter Rasmussen Innovation Award and the Showtime Movie Channels Audience Awards.
Sydney Film Festival operates year-round via the Travelling Film Festival, Australia's longest-running touring event, which visits 16 different locations around the country.