Professional Profile - August 2010

Australia’s Premier Digital Feature Film Competition

WIN $15,000 cash and $20,000 worth of post production
sponsored by MOVIE NETWORK

With less than 2 months to go, the deadline is fast approaching for aspiring filmmakers to enter their films into the prestigious DigiSPAA digital filmmaking competition. The winner will take away a cash prize of $15,000 and $20,000 worth of post-production, a guaranteed screening of their film on the Movie Extra channel, plus a return airfare and free registration to the prestigious CineMart International Film Festival Rotterdam.

The competition continues to draw entries from the best new cinematic talent in Australia and New Zealand, as acceptance of the digital medium becomes increasingly popular on a global scale. In 2009, Academy Award winning films such as Slumdog Millionaire (winner best cinematography) was shot half on digital. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, also an Academy Awards nominee, was also shot digitally.

Winners of the DigiSPAA grand prize, the ‘SPAARTAN Award’ include 2009 winner, writer / director / producer Khao Do, and his film Mother Fish (working title Missing Water) which opens nationally this Thursday 5 August at Chauvel Cinema, NSW. Little Deaths, winner in 2008, has since screened at the Dungog Film Festival (2009) and has recently been acquired by Odin’s Eye Entertainment for international release in 2010.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 17 September 2010. Eligible films are feature length, with a running time of at least 70mins, digitally produced and completed to advanced post-production stage no earlier than 31 August 2009, and independently funded.

For full details, application form and guidelines go to www.spaa.org.au

DigiSPAA is a creative project of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) an industry body that represents Australian independent film and television producers on all issues affecting the business and creative aspects of screen production.

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