Melbourne International Film Festival Bumps Up Their Festival Prize Pool; Now Largest Film Competition In Southern Hemisphere

) has announced that its 70th anniversary edition in August will include the debut of the annual MIFF Film Competition. Already the Southern Hemisphere’s largest and longest-running film festival, MIFF will now also offer one of the world’s most substantial festival prize pools.

Up to ten films will be in official selection to compete for the Best Film Award, with all types of feature length films eligible for inclusion – from fiction to documentary to animation, and any creative variation in-between. All Competition films will be Australian premieres of director’s first-or-second-time feature-length works. The winning film will be decided by a jury of prominent international and Australian guests.

“The Competition will recognize and amplify the new, the next, the breakthrough and the best in-screen fromand across the globe, bringing incredible films and filmmakers to Melbourne – and making MIFF truly unmissable in 2022 and beyond.” said MIFF Artistic Director Al Cossar. The introduction of the Competition positions MIFF as the only Southern Hemisphere film festival to feature all the key components of major international festivals such as Rotterdam and Berlin: a Film Competition; a Screen Content Financing Market for creatives, producers and investors ; a Commissioning Fund ; and talent escalator programs .

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