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Sydney Film Festival’s Programming team works non-stop to review thousands of submissions every year, attend world premiere screenings, unearth the best local talent, and select award-winning features from across the globe, fresh from the Festival circuit.
Read on to learn more about the programmers and curators behind this year’s SFF program.
It’s late December. The house is a mess. Everyone’s exhausted. But from the embers of festive family chaos, a unanimous decision emerges: it’s time for a movie.
Stop the petty fights and endless scrolling before it happens, and let the team behind Australia's leading film festival help guide you towards a kind of cinematic satisfaction only possible in those tranquil days before the new year.
To celebrate World Environment Day, we asked the creatives behind the films shortlisted for our Sustainable Future Award to share their thoughts on the subjects of their films, the filmmaking process and the global climate emergency.
Over the coming weeks the 67th Sydney Film Festival will be taking one of Sydney’s showpiece events to audiences at home around the country as it goes virtual and national for the first time. It’s heartening that this has come at a time when we need to be connected, to share stories, more than ever.
Welcome to SFF 2020. We are proud to present Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition and Awards, delivered entirely online to a national audience for the first time in its 67 years. Albeit not shared together in the dark under the State Theatre chandelier; the Festival will continue to be a lens on the world and times, a trusted guide, a forum for ideas, conversations, community, and change.
From freaky Frankenstein flicks to hell-raising imaginary friends, here's curator Richard Kuipers' take on Freak Me Out.
