Events
The AFI | AACTA holds a variety of events throughout the year with the aim of connecting members and audiences with great Australian film and television productions and the talented people who make them.
Most events are exclusive to AFI | AACTA members – another great reason to become a member.
AFI membership is open to all screen enthusiasts, film students and emerging film practitioners. For more information, and to join, please visit the AFI site.
AACTA membership is open to those working within the screen industry, and is granted through an accreditation process. For more information, please see the membership section of this site.
Preview Screenings
AFI | AACTA hosts complimentary film screening events for its members throughout the year.
The next film screening will take place in Sydney and Melbourne in April, and will feature Wish You Were Here - a psychological drama/mystery starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price and Teresa Palmer, and produced by Angie Fielder of the award-winning, independent Australian production company Aquarius Films, in association with the acclaimed indie director's collective Blue-Tongue Films (Animal Kingdom).
Members are kept up-to-date on all preview screenings events through our member e-newsletter.
Meet the Makers
AFI | AACTA is committed to connecting its talented screen professional members with each other, with the industry, with AFI members and with those passionate about Australian screen content.
Within the last year, events have included workshops, panels and Q&A sessions (often held in conjunction with screen guild partners) with various AACTA nominated and awarded screen writers, editors, directors and designers. Highlighting the ilk of AACTA’s members, panelists have ranged from Margaret Pomeranz (At the Movies), Sophie Raymond (Mrs Carey’s Concert) and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog), through to Melinda Doring (The Slap), Justin Kerzel (Snowtown) and Fred Schepisi (Eye of the Storm).
AFI | AACTA also provides the opportunity to liaise with cast and crew through screenings of current and classic films. Based on the success of last year’s retrospective screenings of Proof (celebrating its 20 year anniversary) and Lantana (10 years), this year AFI | AACTA aims to hold further screenings to commemorate the anniversaries of some of Australia’s most influential and much-loved cinema classics.
Awards Events
The AACTA Awards season includes a variety of high-profile, high-end events aimed at celebrating Australia’s finest film and television productions and the talented people who make them.
The full events program of the next AACTA Awards season is currently being devised, but aims to include a season launch event, nominations celebrations and Awards announcement events in Sydney and Los Angeles.
The season will culminate with the AACTA Awards Ceremony in Sydney in January 2013.
The AACTA Awards Ceremony is one of the nation’s most glamorous and entertaining televised events, with the 2012 Ceremony seeing AACTA President Geoffrey Rush joined by fellow luminaries including Cate Blanchett, Jonathon and Anthony LaPaglia and Rachael Taylor amongst a star-studded array of presenters.
More information regarding the Ceremony will follow later in 2012, and priority tickets will be offered to AFI | AACTA members.
