To our dear SWIFF festival community, After much careful consideration, we have decided to place an indefinite hold on all future Screenwave festivals and programs, extending to Storyland and Nextwave, with no future plans to present SWIFF or other Screenwave programs in 2024 or beyond. The joy of cinema, and introducing audiences to filmmakers’ …
SWIFF’s Ferguson Film Prize strives to recognise captivating, daring, and ambitious filmmaking from Australian directors in their debut or sophomore feature. The Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival has announced the recipient of the 2023 Ferguson Film Prize as Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski for his Melbourne-set coming of age romance, Of an Age. The Ferguson …
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Half-way through this year’s festival, the Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival has set a new all-time ticket sales record, meaning that by the end of SWIFF’23 the festival will also break the overall attendance record. Festival organisers attribute a voracious audience appetite for cinema, strong support from its local community, an diverse and expansive …
This coming weekend at SWIFF’23 is back-to-back guests across all three venues – here are some of the faces you can expect to see giving Q&As, performances, and enjoying SWIFF’23. Kicking things off with a bang on Saturday, dancer and documentary subject Patrix will be joining us for a Q&A and live performance after the …
Art takes many forms at SWIFF’23, from paintings on canvas, to performance, to the lush artistry in the very creation of film, to the use of art to guide humanity through some of the darkest times – here are some of the films that explore art in all mediums at SWIFF this year. Starting with …
Festivalgoers across the Coffs Coast are busy watching movies, attending Q&As, and experiencing all the wonderful and unique events SWIFF brings to Coffs Harbour and Bellingen this year. This weekend promises to be a movie lover’s paradise – here’s what’s coming this weekend. Bellingen Memorial Hall will be back in full festival swing on Friday, …
Filmmaker, surfer, and all-round adventurist Spencer Frost will attend the festival and get into the nitty-gritty about his film, Corners of the Earth: Kamchatka this ANZAC Day. East of Siberia lies Kamchatka, an arctic peninsula along the frozen, largely unexplored coastline of Russia. The idea of a frozen coastline dotted with 150 volcanoes on the …
YOU CAN GO NOW LEARN MORE / GET TICKETS Richard Bell is a self-styled ‘activist masquerading as an artist’. His confrontational art and attitude have stirred the Australian art scene while being lauded internationally, having seen the prestigious walls of the Tate Modern. But Bell has one goal: justice and land recognition for First Nations …
See films at SWIFF that reflect the world we live in – and hear the stories of the people that champion the Earth. THE GIANTS LEARN MORE / GET TICKETS Bob Brown is an icon of Australian environmentalism, having been the leader of the Australian Greens for a number of years. See his story and …
See the SWIFF Team’s picks in one handy place – from Festival Directors, to the team members that make the festival happen day-to-day. Festival Director Dave Horsley: “When I go to other film festivals, I seek to find a balance between meaningful and entertaining. Light and shade. Too many light films and I feel I’ve …