FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES IN DUNGOG’S $30,000 SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The deadline falls this month for filmmakers to enter in the $30,000 worth of cash prizes at Dungog Festival’s Short Film Competition 2016. With one of the largest short film prize pools in the country, the competition is open to Australian, international and student entries, with a focus on Australian shorts.
The picturesque regional town of Dungog in the Upper Hunter of NSW, boasts a rich heritage of film-related events as home to the oldest continually running cinema in Australia, the James Theatre. It is here that the competition will be screened during the weekend of the annual Dungog Festival, October 27 – 30, 2016.
Participants are encouraged to enter films of all genres completed in the last two years, after October 2014, in any of the following categories:
Australian Short Films – Fiction
Australian Short Films – Documentary
International Short Films – Fiction and Documentary
Youth Films (under 25 years) – Student and Non-Student
Music Video Films
As a backdrop to the Short Film Competition screening, during the Festival Dungog will become a bustling hive of activity, offering up a plethora of diverse lifestyle events, from yoga to sausage–making and beer brewing, night markets to blacksmithing and a Saturday night party headlined by the Enormous Horns. Local produce will be front-and-centre, featured in the main food events such as last year’s sell-out Long Table Dinner served down the main street, the enigmatic Long Lazy Lunch in a secret rural location, and the new addition – a wine matching lunch with a mouthwatering menu created by renowned chef Christine Manfield.
Prizes for the Australian Filmmakers’ Short Film Competition will be awarded for Best Short Film (Fiction and Documentary), Best Director, Best Craft Award, Best Youth Film (Student and non-Student), Best Local Film, Best Indigenous Talent, Best Music Video and more.
Films should be 30 minutes or under in length and entered via the submissions portal on the Festival website.
Entries will close on the 19th of August, with late submissions accepted until the 31st August at a higher fee.
The Dungog Festival will run from Thursday 27th October through to Sunday 30th October 2016
The Dungog Festival is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW
