The Bondi Short Film Festival is an annual one-day competitive
short film festival open to amateur filmmakers held in the Australian city of Sydney, at
Bondi Beach. The Festival's founding and current
artistic director is Francis Coady.
History
Established by Coady in 2001, the Festival began by giving young filmmakers a festival to screen their films,
reportedly as a favour to Coady's friends who had missed out on entering films in other Sydney film festivals.
The first festival screening was held at the
North Bondi
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RSL Club
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Mission
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. Due to its success, by 2002 it has moved to its current home at the
Bondi Pavilion
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.
[
The Festival accepts entries in any genre, with the only restrictions being it must be Australian, under 15 minutes in length, and made in the previous 18 months.][ Whilst the competition is predominantly an amateur’s festival, films are judged by leading industry professionals. Over the years, festival judges have included ]Margaret Pomeranz
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Early life
Pomeranz was born Margeret Anne Jones-Owen on 14 July 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney.
She was educated at the P ...
, Sam Worthington
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, Bruce Beresford
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Beresford's notable films he has directed include '' B ...
,[ ]Rachel Ward
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, David Caeser and Gracie Otto
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.
References
External links
Official festival website
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Film festivals in Sydney
Film festivals established in 2000
Short film festivals in Australia