Melbourne Movie Competition Unveils Competitors Part With $100,000 First Prize

Kicking off at its seventieth anniversary version in August, the Melbourne Worldwide Movie Competition is to introduce a trio of latest prizes. The very best movie award will include a A$140,000 (roughly $100,000) money reward, making it the richest movie prize within the southern hemisphere.

Contenders within the new, annual, ten-title MIFF Movie Competitors might be from any style, together with documentary or animation. However they are going to be restricted to a director’s first or second feature-length effort. And so they should even have their Australian premiere in Melbourne.

The pageant may also introduce an Australian Innovation Prize, recognizing an excellent Australian artistic (director, technical or artistic lead or cinema craft individual) inside a movie taking part in anyplace within the Melbourne MIFF program. The 2022 pageant (Aug. 4-21) may also see the return of the pageant’s viewers award.

“The Competitors will acknowledge and amplify the brand new, the following, the breakthrough and the very best in-screen from Australia and throughout the globe,” mentioned MIFF creative director Al Cossar.

“The introduction of the competitors positions MIFF as the one Southern Hemisphere movie pageant to function all the important thing parts of main worldwide festivals akin to Rotterdam and Berlin: a movie competitors; a display content material financing marketplace for creatives, producers and buyers (37º South Market); a commissioning fund (MIFF Premiere Fund); and expertise escalator packages (MIFF Accelerator Lab and MIFF Critics Campus),” Cossar mentioned.

The strikes, which come after two editions of the pageant that had been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, are supported by the Victorian Authorities by way of display business help company Movie Victoria.

“We’re investing in the way forward for Victoria’s display business to ship development, jobs and alternatives to our artistic industries workforce.” mentioned Victoria state authorities minister for artistic industries Danny Pearson. “Victoria is a movie powerhouse providing cutting-edge manufacturing amenities, iconic locations and world-class artistic expertise – this competitors celebrates the milestone of a a lot beloved pageant and can additional cement our state’s status as Australia’s artistic vacation spot.”

In current weeks, Melbourne has seen the beginning of manufacturing on Jocelyn Moorhouse’s six-part crime drama collection “Savage River” and affirmation that season two of NBC’s catastrophe motion collection “La Brea” will return to the town and Victoria state. It has additionally realized of the possible cancelation of long-running cleaning soap opera “Neighbours.” The present has been on air in Australia and the U.Ok. for 37 seasons and has been a coaching floor for on-screen expertise together with Kylie Minogue, Man Pearce, Russel Crowe, Chris Hemsworth and Margot Robbie.

The second season of “La Brea,” during which Australia stands in for central Los Angeles, is predicted to generate native manufacturing spend of A$118 million ($84.6 million) in Australia and a few A$98 million ($70.2 million) of that in Victoria.

The Australian federal authorities is backing the manufacturing by way of its 16.5% location offset tax rebate, in addition to a direct grant from its location incentive fund that’s equal of an extra 13.5% of the price range. The Victoria state authorities may also present finance by way of its regional manufacturing incentive scheme.

“MIFF welcomes the Victorian authorities’s imaginative and prescient of a thriving display tradition in Melbourne – evidenced right here with its help enabling MIFF to award a movie prize of world significance to an impartial filmmaker of substance,” mentioned Melbourne pageant chair Teresa Zolnierkiewicz.