Kick Start Your Week With World-class Short Cinema At Flickerfest!

20th January 2025

KICK START THE WEEK WITH WORLD CLASS SHORTS!

The first 3 days of Flickerfest have been a huge success, with many sold out sessions, great enthusiasm for the films screened and so many excited filmmaker guests from Australia and the world sharing their films for the first time. We’ve had an awesome cinematic journey so far, with many more to come!

At 6:30pm tonight, kick off your week with the Best Of International Shorts 3, featuring the quirky and interesting The Brown Dog with executive producer as Steve Buscemi and Wren Arthur Arthur and voiced by the late Michael K. Williams. In this film, we meet a lonely watchman starts his shift in a security booth in an empty parking lot but he is eventually abandons his post to go in search of a mysterious brown dog…
Then we travel back to Egypt in the 1950s with Dawn Every Day where a true story inspires the story of Nabil who navigates new social norms that also impact his best friend next door in a post nationalised Egypt. Stay for our 9pm session Best Of Australian Shorts 5, featuring Beautiful Smile which follows a glimpse into the life of an aspiring model who has to navigate a tricky scenario with a prodigious photographer plus the relatable world premier Skin Hunger Winter Love which follows a couples  day to day relationship but evolves into an experimental fever dream where we question who’s the observer and who’s the observed?And remember if the weathers stormy for any outdoor screening, we have our indoor theatre ready to roll.Last tickets are still available so book them now!


Tuesday6.30pm join us for the Best Of International Shorts 4 screening in our air-conditioned theatre at Bondi Pavilion. Highlights include moving US short The CockroachMeet writer, director, producer, Mary Pat Bentel  whose joined us for the festival and see her moving story about a woman, who after a transformative time in life who has to adjust to a new way of being in the world and be surprised by the fun UK film Red Sky At Night about a century-old vampire, Val in a classic coming-of-age tale where she decides to go to University and whose  leaving home is not so easy for her  doting parents.


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BEST OF AUSTRALIAN SHORTS 6

At 9pm, celebrate and be amazed by the talent of our Australian filmmakers in Best Of Australian Shorts 6

Be the first to see the world premiere of Robbed a hilarious snapshot of time between a bickering couple who find themselves as hostages on the floor during a bank robbery. Screening alongside is the unconventional Light Can’t Escape, about Harriet (Jillian Nguyen) whose life gets progressively stranger when she finds a black hole in her apartment.


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– THIS THURSDAY –

AFTRS FLiCKERLAB

Don’t miss your chance to engage and learn from the best in the industry at AFTRS FlickerLab.

From 10am until 5pm, immerse yourself in the latest film and TV trends. Spend the day with some of the industry’s leading experts, sharing their expertise and wisdom with a range of panels designed to enhance and develop your creative ideas and get your content creation noticed in the marketplace.

The entire scope of the filmmaking experience is covered, from initial concept through to script, producing, marketing, distribution and the latest cross-platform and alternative distribution methods.

First up meet our experienced screenwriters, moderator Imogene Gardam working at Screen Australia as Development Executive, critically acclaimed award-winning Wri/Dir Dane McCusker (‘Angelfish’‘Rage’ on ABC, ‘The Big Dog’), award-winning writer, director, lyricist and performer Hannah Reilly (‘The Deb‘, ‘Sheilas‘) and finally screen writer Sara Khan (‘Heartbreak High’‘Paper Dolls’ and ‘Erotic Stories’). 

Then joining us for the Director’s panel is senior writer at The Sydney Morning Herald, Garry Maddox, the joyful Leela Verghese (‘Lesbian Space Princess’, ‘Crush’), and the award-winning writer and director Nick Waterman (‘After the Smoke’‘The Flame’, ‘How to Make Gravy’).

After lunch our producers panel ‘Making it Happen’ is moderated by Andrea Ulbrick, the Investment and Development Manager at Screen Australia’s Scripted Content Department;  Meet the producer of ‘The Moogai‘, Kristina Ceyton; the Academy Award, BAFTA and Emmy-winning producer and co-founder of See-Saw Films, Emile Sherman (‘The Lion’, ‘The King’s Speech’) with Sheila Jayadev, creative producer for Matchbox Pictures (‘Stateless’‘House of Gods’).

Then learn all about distribution with AFTRS alumni and experienced producer and development executive, Robbie Miles who will moderate a panel with Jane Nice, executive producer and industry veteran as well as Marcus Gillezeau who heads up the production and development division of Studiocanal ANZ, Cultivator Films Australia and best known for his work (‘Scorched’‘Storm Surfers’) and last but not least, Jack Clark, (Bird Eater) filmmaker and screenwriter.

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