One of Australia’s largest and longest running publicly-owned film festivals – St Kilda Film Festival – is going online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.The best 100 Australian short films, including LGBTQI films, will be screened from June 12-21, 2020 at the festival produced by the City of Port Phillip.
The good news is the audience reach of the festival will increase exponentially – anyone based in Australia can watch the films for free on the festival website.Richard Sowada took over as Festival Director this year and his first challenge was to get filmmakers on board.“Before we worked out precisely how we would go online, we went to all the filmmakers who had been selected in the Top 100 and asked them how best we might construct.
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