The Heathcote Film Festival is a short film festival that has been running since 2010, showcasing both Australian and international short films.
We are a not-for-profit Short Film Festival run by volunteers who have full support from our local community. Each year, we attract more and more visitors from neighbouring towns and the nearby city of Melbourne. We receive sponsorship from a number of wineries as well as the community bank and other sponsors/grants.
Our Festival aims to grow and proliferate film culture in our community and surrounding rural region. The festival was started by a small group of passionate people who have created a much-loved annual event.
We aim to celebrate film of all genres, encourage the discussion of film and film-making and to provide a forum for emerging film-makers. We want our Festival to satisfy the needs of film devotees as well as to introduce novices to as broad a range of film as possible in an environment rich with film knowledge and love of film. At our Festival we also endeavour to marry enjoyment of film with the enjoyment of wine and food from our region.
The festival is held in late August in Heathcote (Central Victoria) about a 90-minute drive north of Melbourne.
Submitted films must be no longer than 15 minutes and can be of any genre. Awards are presented at the main festival in August.
We are pleased to continue our emerging film-maker award this year, specifically for early-career film-makers who live in Australia.
Filmmakers are invited to submit films in the following categories:
Short films – Submission fee: AUD$10 /AUD$8 for Gold members
Emerging Film Makers (short films) – must be an emerging film maker who lives in Australia and has made three or fewer films for public viewing – Submission fee: AUD$5/AUD$4 for Gold members
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