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The first fully integrated feature film production complex in Australia will call Coffs home
Russell Crowe, Peter Montgomery and Keith Rodger proudly announce Pacific Bay Resort Studios and Village: integrating coastal lifestyle and high-speed data technology with film production and career training Bringing lifestyle and education to the film lot. Pacific Bay Resort Studios & Village on New South Wales’ Mid Coast will be the first fully integrated feature-film …
SWIFF Partners With SSI to Present Homelands
SWIFF is proud to be supporting the Homelands Arts Tour 2021, brought to you by Settlement Services International (SSI) at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus (CHEC) on Thursday, June 24. The screening event, hosted at CHEC’s O Block Theatre from 6pm and MC’d by SWIFF’s Festival Co-Director Dave Horsley, is FREE to attend, but has …
Nextwave Youth Film Awards 2021
Presented by Southern Cross University, the Nextwave Youth Film Awards, hosted during SWIFF’21, awarded and lauded young filmmakers from across regional Australia, for an evening to remember. Find the winners, highlights and photo gallery below. Awarding over $30,000 in prizes, seeing the big screen premiere of 22 incredible short films and hosting filmmakers travelling from …
How to vote for your favourite SWIFF’21 film!
SWIFF’21 is done and dusted, but there is still time to vote for your favourite SWIFF’21 film, and have your say in which film takes out the SWIFF’21 Audience Award! Voting on desktop 1. Log into your account on the website. 2. On the desktop site, you’ll be automatically redirected to the voting site, like …
And the Oscar Goes To…
SWIFF’21 has screened a slew of Oscar-Nominated Features and Documentaries, and today is the big day! Here are the films that you have seen at SWIFF’21, that won big at the Academy Awards! BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE WINNER: ANOTHER ROUND – DIRECTED BY THOMAS VINTERBERG ALSO NOMINATED: COLLECTIVE – DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER NANAU BEST SUPPORTING …
New attendance record set at SWIFF’21
Nine days into the 16-day festival, for the 5th consecutive year, the Screenwave International Film Festival has broken its attendance record, with more audiences than ever finding an appetite for world cinema on the Coffs Coast. This year SWIFF has over 120 sessions, including 70 different feature films selected, 25 short films, industry events, live …
SWIFF’21’s Last Weekend
It’s been a festival of highs this year, starting off with a bang by smashing out SWIFF’s previous sales record at only four days in. We’ve had multiple sold out Sessions, and two Encore Screening announcements, for Bellingen, the Promised Land and David Byrne’s American Utopia. Check out what you can catch at the last …
SWIFF’21 Breaks New Ticket Sales Record
Four days into the 2021 festival, the Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival has broken its previous ticket sales record, with film lovers flocking from across Australia to attend to this year’s 16-day line-up of screenings and events. SWIFF’21, presented by Ashton Designs, is in its sixth year, last year attracting nearly 10,000 paying ticketholders …
Family Films at SWIFF’21
Keen to bring the whole family along to SWIFF this year? Here are the sessions set to delight audiences of all ages. SWIFF Live: A Boy Called Sailboat – featuring Grigoryan Brothers JMT · TUE 27 APR · 6.30PM CHEC · WED 28 APR · 6.30PM “Imbued with the kind of unique indie-quirk that made Napoleon …