Our top picks from the 2021 St Kilda Film Festival program Waiyirri
This year’s St Kilda Film Festival is teeming with thought-provoking, visually stimulating filmmaking.
St Kilda Film Festival is Australia’s longest-running short film festival. 2021 is the festival’s 38th year of operations and sees a return to theatres after a last-minute switch to a digital event for 2020. SKFF is presented and produced by the City of Port Phillip, and this year’s stacked program was put together under the auspices of festival director, Richard Sowada.
SKFF prides itself on offering sweeping coverage of the national short film industry by providing a platform for both budding talent and established flowers of the local industry. Running from Thursday May 20 until Saturday May 29, this year’s festival is teeming with thought-provoking, visually stimulating filmmaking, spanning sublime animation, sci-fi brain-friers, First Nations’ storytelling and s
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And Daniel Sloss takes People s Choice
Geraldine Hickey has won the top prize at the the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The comic scooped the prize for most outstanding show for What A Surprise, which told how she had found happiness in life at 40 with a job and partner she loved.
It received a slew of glowing reports including five stars from Melbourne newspaper The Age and four from Chortle.
Accepting Hickey award she said it took her ‘many, many years,’ to get where she was, adding that she would dedicated the accoade to ‘anyone who’s in the middle of their career and at the tipping point of, Is this working? Should I keep going? No one notices me. Keep going. ’Cause I did. And look at me now.’
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