Tropfest to expand to three days in 2012
Tropfest will expand on its format for next year’s 20th edition in 2012.
The Tropfest short film festival will become a three day event, festival director John Polson told Encore. He said: “We’re pushing to three days for the twentieth birthday with a party on Friday, an all-day industry seminar on Saturday, musical events on Saturday night and the main event on Sunday.” There will also be screenings of the best films from the first 20 years.
“The conference will have six to eight successful filmmakers, maybe from short films, maybe from features, financiers, cinematographers; It is an opportunity for filmmakers serious about their career and taking their position to the next level to hear from others that have done well.”
The news comes with the announcement of this year’s Tropfest signature item, a light bulb and a call for entries. Entries close on Thursday 5 January 2012 at 6pm. The event runs from February 17 to 19.
The festival will return to Sydney’s Domain which attracts an audience of around 150,000, with proceedigns also relayed to 14 other live venues across Australia and on Pay TV channel Movie Extra.
Tropfest this year launched Tropfest Arabia in Abu Dhabi with the finalists screening in just a few weeks time. “We spent the last two weeks viewing the the entries – 120 films over the last two weeks with 40 films from Egypt,” said Polson.
Past winners have included the team behind TV show Wilfred, Elissa Down (Black Balloon) and Nash Edgerton (Spider, Bear).
Finalists will be in the running to win international travel valued at $100,000, a cash-prize pool, equipment as well as industry attention.
I believe the ‘M’ is silent in Elissa Down 😛
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The M is just very close to the E on the keyboard… ahem, my apologies to Elissa. Thank you Richard.
Colin – Encore
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