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CAMPFIRE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 12th May 2012

The Campfire Film Festival is an annual event that celebrates short film as a means of provoking discussion and debate around meaningful issues.

The 2012 Festival is proudly supported by the Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA), with panel discussions around the making and using of shortfilms in the education sector. 
AFCA jurors -Peter Krausz, Greg King and Sharon Hurst  have judged and awarded the best short-films
in the categories:

  • Campfire Award (Best Overall Discussion Starter)
  • Best Documentary Short
  • Best Youth Short
  • Best Comedy Short
  • Best Environmental Short

The event also receives support from its cultural partners, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Victorian Multicultural Commission 

(under the direction of the Vic. Government Department of Premier and Cabinet).


CAMPFIRE FILM FESTIVAL 12th May 2012
CINEMA 1 & THE CUBE   ACMI CINEMAS, 
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE
FED SQUARE, FLINDERS STREET, MELBOURNE1.30PM TO 5.30PM

GET TICKETS NOW: $30.00 FULL / $15.00 CAMPFIRE MEMBER SCHOOLS / $15.00 STUDENTS, CONCESSIONS, ACMI MEMBERS

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Audi Festival of German Films
Sydney      18 – 30 April 
Melbourne 19 – 30 April  
Brisbane    19 – 25 April  
Adelaide    26 April – 01 May
Canberra   03 – 06 May 
Perth         03 – 06 May
Link to Goethe Institute web site for national programming


The 23rd Annual Alliance Française 
Film Festival 2012

Showcasing 48 new films, 
and one retrospective screening, will take place at Palace and Dendy Cinemas across Australia during March and April. 
Go to On Film page for reviews
For more details visit the website: www.affrenchfilmfestival.org
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ACMI/AFCA screening of Caught Inside  star Ben Oxenbould, 
director Adam Blaiklock and AFCA chairman Peter Krausz 
3rd March 2012


click here to go to     AFCA 2012 FILM  AWARDS 

AFCA 2011 Writing Awards

Ivan Hutchinson Award for Writing on Australian Film
  Rebecca Harkins-Cross – Who's Afraid of the Working Class?  We Are

Award for Writing on Non-Australian Film
  Jake Wilson –Islands and Ghosts: Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer

Award for a Review of an Individual Australian Film
  Alice Tynan – Griff the Invisible 

Award for a Review of an Individual Non-Australian Film
  Josh Nelson – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 

Judging Panel
 Alan Finney,
Chair of the AFI and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 
 Richard Sowada,
Head of Film Programs at Australian Centre for the Moving Image 
 Deb Verhoeven,
Professor, School of Communication & Creative Arts, Deakin University
2011 AFCA Writing Awards
click here to read entries

AFCA 2011 Writing Awards

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Writing Award winners 
Jake Wilson, Peter Krausz
and  Rebecca Harkins-Cross

25th February 2012

Australian Film Critics Association        
Is a professional association for film critics, film reviewers and film journalists who work regularly in the media, and provide informed discussion, analysis, and comment about Australian and world cinema. 
We aim to promote excellence and expertise in film criticism. We support mainstream, independent and Australian cinema, and seek to foster an appreciation of significant or challenging films that may have been neglected.  We encourage formal and informal dialogue between film-makers, fellow critics and reviewers, distributors, exhibitors, film-goers, and other members of the film industry.
AFCA is an affiliated national section member of FIPRESCI, the international association of film critics and journalists.