A selective event for producers to pitch their script-stage screen projects to potential financiers, the Market also includes screenings for buyers, modules for publishers and IP owners pitching to producers their manuscripts/creative assets for potential screen adaptations, and writers pitching their screenplays to producers, plus panel discussions.
Providing funds to assist the production of new quality Australian films with “Stories That Need Telling” which then premiere at MIFF, films supported by the Premiere Fund have been selected for Berlin, Cannes, London, Rotterdam, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and include Balibo, Bran Nue Dae, Buoyancy, Electric Boogaloo, H is for Happiness, Paper Planes, and The Turning.
Nurturing tomorrow’s top screen directors on the journey towards their first feature-film/long-form works, the selective-entry MIFF Accelerator Lab’s alumni includes the directors of 52 Tuesdays, Animal Kingdom, Babyteeth, Buoyancy, H is for Happiness, Hounds of Love, JoJo Rabbit, Of an Age, Judy & Punch, Snowtown, Shayda and Sweet As.
MIFF Industry events occur during the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which, having celebrated 70-years in 2022, is amongst the world’s oldest film festivals – and one of the largest; each August MIFF runs public screenings & events (including feature films, shorts, talks, XR projects & TV-specials) across metro, regional & digital contexts, plus Schools, Critics Campus, Short Awards, and in 2022 introduced the Southern Hemisphere’s richest film Competition with a top award of $140,000 (and an overall prize pool of around $250,000) – leading VARIETY to declare: “MIFF has to be one of the lengthiest, liveliest and, now, most lucrative film festivals in the world.”
