Today the new AFI | AACTA announced the Samsung AFI | AACTA Festival of Film, marking the official start to the Australian awards season. The opening night film will be Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe.
Running from the 14 October to 11 November, the festival will showcase 23 Feature Films in competition, as well as nominees for Best Short Fiction Film, Best Short Animation and Best Feature Length Documentary. Each will be competing for an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award.
In a press release, AACTA states: “Whilst we have previously held an awards screening period, this year we have chosen a festival format to showcase the films competing for an AACTA Award, with the aim of generating greater audience reach and engagement with the fantastic film content our industry is producing”.
Admission to the Festival is complimentary for AFI/AACTA members, but is also open to the general public.
Feature Films
- A Heartbeat Away
- Big Mamma’s Boy
- Blame
- Burning Man
- Caught Inside
- The Dragon Pearl
- The Eye of the Storm
- Face to Face
- Griff the Invisible
- Here I Am
- The Hunter
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole
- The Loved Ones
- Mad Bastards
- Oranges and Sunshine
- Red Dog
- Red Hill
- Sanctum
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snowtown
- Summer Coda
- The Cup
- Wasted on the Young
Feature Length Documentaries:
- Life in Movement
- Mrs. Carey’s Concert
- Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
- The Tall Man
Short Films:
- Adam’s Talitt
- Cropped
- The Palace
- The Telegram Man
- Forget Me Not
- The Missing Key
- The Moment
- Nullarbor
The full program, including screening times, can be found on the AACTA website.
