The Real Film Festival has been moved out to 2021 due to COVID. The new dates will be announced in December 2020.
The Real Film Festival (RFF) is one of Australia’s leading independent film festivals offering audiences film competitions, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings and networking opportunities.
Having commenced in Newcastle NSW in 2012, the Festival now heads in to its ninth year offering film and educational experiences across the globe.
In light of the catastrophic economic and social impacts COVID-19 has brought to not only our communities, but the broader national and international communities, the RFF has found a way to diversify and innovate the most valuable components of the festival program by moving the workshops, short film screenings and film completion screenings online.
This year’s festival program will include professional development opportunities for emerging film makers from diverse backgrounds to create content and build skills with industry professionals through online workshops, short film screenings and short film competitions.
We are on the lookout for fearless filmmakers prepared to tell their untold stories. We invite submissions from filmmakers from around the globe. Successful films will be screened at the Real Film between March and May 2021.
The Real Film Festival supports independent film making talent, engages diverse communities and stimulates social conscious audiences through a series of programs.
The festival is a celebrating real events storytelling through film. Filmmakers are invited to submit short or feature length films for consideration in the Film Screening category, and short films only can be submitted into the Short Film Competition (up to 15 minutes). A panel of industry professionals select the final films to be screened at the festival together with the winners of the short film competitions.
The film screenings and competition guidelines are required to address the following topics;
Impacts of COVID-19
Stories from the Hunter region NSW
Reconciliation
Living with a disability
Celebrating diversity and inclusion
Homelessness
Social justice, environmental and human rights issues
Reducing waste
We encourage submissions from filmmakers living with disability, First Nations, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, LGBTQI and female filmmakers.
Produced by Screen Hunter, the Real Film Festival began in Newcastle, NSW Australia in 2012 and has served as stimuli for discussion around social justice, environmental and human rights issues and celebrated diversity in film behind the camera and on screen for eight years.
If you are interested in online workshops, they will be held between March and May 2021. Please check www.realflmfestival.com.au for up to date information.
This program is designed to raise community spirit and provide tools to assist local residents, businesses and the greater community recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and the economic and social issues that have arisen, to help bring the community together.
8 categories
$20,000 Australia Dollars in prize money, Mentor-ships and prizes
