17th December 2024
‘Strictly Great Short Films!’ at Flickerfest 2025! We are thrilled to share our official #Flickerfest 2025 trailer with you! Hot off the press Scott and Fran are dancing their way to the 34th year of Flickerfest at the Bondi Pavilion! This year, our trailer celebrates another ode to a much loved and iconic Australian film, […]
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Read More6th December 2024
Hello Flickerfest Friends,
We’ve received a record 3,500 outstanding submissions for Flickerfest 2025, we can’t wait to share the best of short films from Australia & around the world with you.
Flickerfest will screen 28 sessions across 10 days & nights from 17th-26th Jan 2025 at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach this summer.
We look forward to seeing you there! – Ticket will also go on sale from Wed 18th Dec.
Thank you to all of our fabulous partners, filmmakers and audiences again for your incredible support; together we’ll make Flickerfest 2025 another unforgettable year for film!
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Read More2nd October 2024
Hello Flickerfest Friends,
As reach the end of a massive 9 months sharing Flickerfest across our continent, reaching over 45 venues on our extraordinary 2024 national tour, we want to take a moment to extend our deepest gratitude to every single person who has shared in this incredible journey with us. From the passionate film lovers to the talented filmmakers, your energy and enthusiasm have truly made this year one for the books and we are so excited that the passion and demand to see great shorts films across Australia goes from strength to strength.
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Read More22nd August 2024
Thanks everyone for making our national tour 2024 such a success With over 40 venues enjoying the short film magic across Australia so far, we’re now on the final leg of our cinema adventure, with 11 screenings to come in August and September.
We’ll be wrapping things up with stops in Broome WA, Cairns QLD and Cygnet in the beautiful south of Tassie, with a couple of regional halls in NSW, Maules Creek, Pilliga and Ulong along the way. You will also be able to catch encore screening’s of our Best of International Shorts and Rainbow Shorts at Waverley Council library theatrette this September.
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Read More5th August 2024
A huge thank you to our wonderful audiences recently in Hobart, Merimbula, Katherine and Darwin! our 2024 national tour will soon come to an end but still have a few more exciting venues on the horizon. Read on to see where you can catch the final Flickerfest tour screenings coming up in August and September, including Burnett Heads, Broome, Cygnet, Cairns, Ulong, Narrabri and more…..
We’re also keen to remind you that the call for entries for Flickerfest 2025 are open, so if you’ve got an awesome short film to share, this is your moment. Take advantage of our discounted regular deadline and enter here. Regular deadline September 12th. Late deadline October 9th. – Show Us Your Shorts!
And don’t forget, our ‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’ competition free entries are also open. If you’re a writer/ director with a flair for comedy and a great idea this ones for you! But be quick! Entries close August 12th.
With so many wonderful ways to shine at Flickerfest next summer we can’t wait to see your creative brilliance on our Bondi big screen!
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Read More27th June 2024
The Flickerfest tour has shared the short film love far and wide including a recent sell-out session in Newcastle with our Novacastrian filmmakers & friends on the 15th June.
This June/July Flickerfest will be hitting the big screen in Canowindra, Hobart, Merimbula, Katherine, Gunnedah, Darwin and more. We will also be celebrating NAIDOC in Byron Bay and Ipswich and back home with Waverley Council.. Tour Dates here.
As we continue to celebrate the films of our 2024 festival far and wide we are also thrilled to announce that entries are now open for Flickerfest 2025 and we can’t wait to see this years crop of amazing short film gems.
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Read More18th June 2024
FLiCKERFEST 2025 – Call for Entries – Show Us Your Shorts!
Dear Flickerfest friends far and wide… We cant wait to see this years fresh, inspiring and innovative short films from at home and across the world
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Read More8th May 2024
The Flickerfest tour has shared the short film love far and wide and continues to roll out the red carpet on tour across the country. This May/June Flickerfest will be hitting the big screen in Mackay, Adelaide, Canberra, Parramatta, Newcastle and more. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate the best of short cinema from home and across the globe, meet filmmakers and enjoy local shorts fresh from their Flickerfest premieres in each town.
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Read More23rd April 2024
A massive thank you to our beautiful audiences and filmmakers in Brisbane and Melbourne who joined us for the Best of Australian Shorts, Best of EU Shorts and Best of Melbourne Shorts 2024! Sessions were sold out with enthusiastic audiences celebrating our talented creatives.
Tonight (Tuesday 23rd) Flickerfest returns to the home of our delicious partners Rosnay Organic and their welcoming cellar door in Canowindra for our, Short Laughs Comedy screening.
This late April and May Flickerfest also hits the road to a massive 6 venues far and wide, including Lightning Ridge, Narrogin, Mackay, Adelaide, Canberra and Parramatta with lots more local film highlights. Read on for all of the details below.
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Read More28th March 2024
Happy Easter Film Friends- See You On The Road in April! Image credit: Alice Springs ‘First Drop’ introduction, prod: Emma Alix Smith & actor: Thamanna Shibab Dear film friends with we’ve travelled the country sharing our fabulous shorts on the big screen at 12 Flickerfest venues this March. It’s been great to share so many local, […]
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