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When
Sunday, September 8, 2024 to Sunday, September 22, 2024
Where
Phoenix Theatre
24 Bridge Street
Coniston NSW 2500
Australia
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SHORT+SWEET ILLAWARRA FILM FESTIVAL

"V" SERIES: SHORT+SWEET ILLAWARRA FILM FESTIVAL 2024

Celebrating Five Years Of  Illawarra Filmmaking

8 - 22 September 2024
The Phoenix Theatre
24 Bridge Street, Coniston NSW Australia

Please note that the V SERIES scheduled for 21st and 22nd September 2024 has been postponed to the end of our tour of Sydney and the Philippines. We will announce new dates when known.

Tickets to all sessions are $20 and include a glass of wine for audience 18+

 

Sessions:

2024 FILM FESTIVAL:

8 SEP    WILDCARD FINALS (5:30PM)

15 SEP  2024 FILM FESTIVAL FINALS (5:30PM)

V SERIES:

V: ANIMATED FILMS (Postponed to 2025)

V: MUSIC VIDEO (Postponed to 2025)

V: LATE NIGHT THRILLERS (Postponed to 2025)

V SERIES GALA FINAL (Postponed to 2025)

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Festival enquiries contact our Festival Director Luke, at luke@blackboxtheatre.org

 

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FESTIVAL AWARDS AND PROGRESSION

  1. FESTIVAL AWARDS


    2024 FILM FESTIVAL (WILDCARDS & FINALS)


    Our Film Festival has 5 Major Awards presented at the end of the Gala Final Screening. These are Best Film, People's Choice Award, Best Illawarra Film, Best Australian Film, and Best International Film.


    The winning films from our WILDCARD screening will join the other films in the FINALS, and will be eligible for awards.


    JUDGES CHOICE


    Our judges will vote for films at the live screenings, and will vote for the winning films. 


    * BEST FILM (Advances to the V Series Gala Final)

    * Best Illawarra Film

    * Best Australian Film

    * Best International Film


     


    PEOPLES CHOICE (AUDIENCE) VOTING


    The winning films as voted by our audience will advance in the festival.


    WILDCARDS: People's Choice Winning films advance to the 2024 FESTIVAL FINALS


    2024 FESTIVAL FINALS - People's Choice Winner to advance to the V SERIES GALA FINAL


    V SERIES GALA FINAL: The audience will vote for the People's Choice Winner for the first five years of the Short+Sweet Illawarra Film Festival.


     


2024 WILDCARD FILMS

  1. A Very Perry Parable

    Amelia

    Australian Mongrel 

    Beyond The Boundary

    Child of Mine

    Crossroads

    Cruisin' To The Nightlife 

    Did I Lock the Door?

    FLY (파리)

    God's Favourites Fall Hardest

    Lens Capped

    Life

    Night Vision (while we sleep)

    Outback Dave

    People Come and People Go

    Projected Line

    Sonder

    Terramuri

    Tooth Fairy


     


2024 FILM FESTIVAL FINALISTS

  1. Please note that our Film festival contains Adult Content, and is recommended for audience 16+


    Coming Home

    Deface The Memory, Destroy The Heart

    Dinner Parties

    End of the Line

    For Roy

    I Want*

    Kindred

    Lazy Kangaroo

    Lost Trolleys of the West

    My Father Is An Astro-Not

    Parkland

    Rostrum

    The Amaze

    The Fall

    The Shell

    Uncertainty

    When Dogs Go To Heaven

    Where Love Blossomed

    AND the winners from the 2024 WILDCARD FINALS


    People Come and People Go (Judges)

    Sonder (Audience)


     


V SERIES: ANIMATED FILMS

  1. Please note that our Animated Film festival contains Adult Content, and is recommended for audience 16+


    Adam and the Aliens

    Birds of a Feather

    Debris

    Demi-Gods

    Denervation 

    Dissociate is to

    Give it my name

    Mr.Mellow & Bones

    My Favourite Place 

    Night Vision (while we sleep)


    Operation Save The Moon

    Shinrin Yoku

    The Proposal  


     


V SERIES: MUSIC VIDEOS

  1. 815 to Greystanes 

    Ahab (Halcyon Reign)

    Alaska (Holly George)

    Don't Waste It (Newhaven)

    Far Away Man

    Knucklehead 

    Nightfall

    Red

    Silent Smile (Gorgi J)

    The Amaze

    The Professional (Newhaven)


     


V SERIES: LATE NIGHT THRILLERS

  1. Please note that our Late Night Thrillers curation contains Adult Content, and is recommended for audience 16+


    FILMS:


    Bloody Words

    Death Drive

    Don't go out in the Dark

    Elegy to Carla

    Flight of the Living Planes

    Get Off the Grass

    Girl Talk

    Heat Stroke

    Love Blood Pain

    Man on the Moon

    Mourning

    Omnibus

    Pitter-Patter

    Raptus

    Sight

    They Who Were Lost In Oblivion

    The Horror Compendium

    Uninvited


     


     


V SERIES: GALA FINAL

  1. A Beautiful Catch

    Assisted Living

    Beat

    Bella

    Coming Home

    Connect

    Dildo

    Don't Waste It (Newhaven)

    F R E E

    Fridge

    Funky

    If I Quit Now

    In Search of Woollen-Gong

    Like I Said

    Marble Me Free

    Munchies

    My Father Is An Astro-Not

    Peach!

    Rage

    Rat Paradise

    Road to Vagator

    Strange Hearts

    Take a Seat


    Two Dollars

    What Time Is It?