Celebrating 31 years, Flickerfest is back at Griffith Regional Theatre on Saturday 12 March. Flickerfest, Australia’s largest Short Film Festival, is returning to Griffith as part of its National Tour, showcasing the Best of Australian Shorts program highlights from the recent Bondi festival competition.
The short films featured are all entertaining, inspiring, award-winning and fresh from their premieres in competition at Flickerfest Bondi, giving Griffith Flickerfest audiences a window into the hottest contemporary shorts from at home and across the world today.
Once again the Australian program shines a spotlight on the incredible short film talent that exists in our emerging Australian industry.
Highlights from the Best of Australian Shorts include the quirky black space comedy ‘The Home Team’ starring comedy legend Paul McDermott and acclaimed actress Tara Morice (‘Strictly Ballroom’) and the fun neighbourly drama ‘Stonefish’ written by and starring accomplished young Australian Actor, George Pullar and directed by acclaimed actress and first time director Megan Smart, known for her most recent roles in miniseries ‘Wakefield’ (2021) and ‘Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway’ (2021).
The moving and intimate sibling drama ‘You Me Before And After’ starring Yael Stone (‘Orange Is The New Black’) and Emily Barclay (‘Mr In Between’, ‘Glitch’, ‘Baby Teeth’) also shines on the big screen in this exceptional program alongside the film which took home both the Academy® Qualifying Panasonic LUMIX Award for Best Australian Short film and the AVID award for Best Original Music at #flickerfest2022, the stunning ‘Giants’ from director Eddy Bell.
Griffith Regional Theatre Acting Manager, Marg Andreazza, said “Flickerfest is always a great night out, tickets are only $30 and that includes a slice of pizza and a glass of wine at interval.”
“We’re also looking forward to showing off our brand new state of the art PA system and along with our ultra HD laser projector this year’s Flickerfest screening will be outstanding,” she said.
Flickerfest Best of Australian Shorts is screening at Griffith Regional Theatre on Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm.
The program is available to view on the Theatre website and patrons are advised that it contains mature themes, children under 15 years must be accompanied by an adult.
Tickets can be purchased from the Box Office, by calling 6962 8444 or visiting www.griffithregionaltheatre.com.au
Flickerfest is Australia’s leading Academy® Qualifying and BAFTA Recognised short film festival, and continues to present A-list short film programs recognised amongst the best in the world with hand-picked films from the festival’s record 3,200 entries.
