12 Apr 2025 to 1 Jun 2025
1 Sep 2025 to 22 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 to 28 Sep 2025
When
Sunday, September 8, 2024 to Sunday, September 22, 2024
Where
Phoenix Theatre
24 Bridge Street
Coniston NSW 2500
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?