Still from ‘Elagabalus’ (2020) | Dir. Xanthe Dobbie
‘The End, The Beginning’, ‘The Familiars’ and ‘Elagabalus’ are among a staggering 34 films by over 150 AFTRS students and alumni will be on show at the 2021 edition of St Kilda Film Festival, Australia’s longest-running short film festival.
Still from ‘The End, The Beginning’ | Dir. Archie Chew
Selected from hundreds of submissions from across Australia, 32 of these works will appear as part of the festival’s central program, the Australia’s Top 100 competition, screening online and in contention for several cash prizes and craft awards. Featured among them are seven AFTRS student productions, including 2019 Master of Arts Screen capstone projects, Peter Skinner’s ADG-nominated Lost Boy; Xanthe Dobbie’s NewFest (NY)-selected Elagabalus; Alexis Talbot-Smith’s (Master of Arts Screen: Producing, 2019) genre festival favourite (directed by Millie Malcolm, Graduate Certificate Screen: Directing, 2018) The Familiars; Naomi Fryer’s Flickerfest-winning and ADG-nominated This River; Archie Chew’s Flickerfest-winning The End, The Beginning and Jeremy Nicholas’ Necktie, which recently made its debut at Adelaide Film Festival.
Accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the St Kilda Film Festival is an Academy Awards qualifying event, with award-winning films from the Australia’s Top 100 Short Films Competition eligible for consideration in the Short Film Awards and Documentary Short sections of the Oscars.
Still from ‘The Familiars’ (2020) | Dir. Millicent Malcolm
The 2021 edition is being run as a part virtual, part in theatre event from 20-29 May. See the full program here.