Wide Angle Film Festival

16/02/2021

We're delighted to announce that the 12th edition of WAFF screened to audiences in excess of 220, 000 Australia-wide.

19/01/2021

We are so very sorry to hear of the passing of Leonie Jackson. Our deepest sympathy to her family and friends.

02/01/2021

Whoo hoo! Get stuck in. Great opportunity! Thanks for posting AccessibleArts!

The ABC Australia has a great job offer for someone to spend three months working on their own content project as part of an ABC Regional Storyteller Scholarship. It can be based in any ABC Regional office across Australia. Applicants must be from regional Australia with a lived experience of disability. It will be approximately a $20K package with 2 scholarships available. You will spend three months working in an ABC regional station, developing your ability to create high quality, compelling content for a variety of ABC platforms, based on your own content idea.

For more information: https://careers.abc.net.au/en/job/501337/abc-regional-storyteller-scholarship?fbclid=IwAR0LqUYjzHAZGVh65IldrpBf1zhpzy40bBPPuTTy1RjblDo6rXwSfzV_DRY



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17/12/2020

The Superfest Disability Film Festival, the oldest disability film festival in the world, is now open for submissions for the 2021 festival.

If your film features disability content, actors with disabilities, or is made with a person with a disability in a prominent role, you are eligible to apply to Superfest! Go to Film Freeway to submit it for judging. Successful entries will have their films highlighted in the main festival October 15-17, 2021, and maybe screened at Superfest Showcases in venues around the world. Screening fee provided / some travel and access awards available.

REQUIREMENTS​

1. Deadline for submissions is 11:59 pst on March 1st, 2021.

2. General submission fee is $40. Films submitted before January 15, 2021 or made on a shoestring budget may be submitted for $20.

3. Your film must have been produced within the last 10 calendar years (since January 1st, 2011 for entry in Superfest 2021).

4. Short and Full Feature films are welcome. Dramatic, documentary and all genres of films will be considered.

For more details, a description of awards, screening honorariums and FAQs, visit the submissions page on the Superfest website. http://www.superfestfilm.com/submissions



Image description: A promotional image of the Superfest Disability Film Festival logo with a colourful reel of film.

14/12/2020

The speaker videos from the recent Artstate NSW 2020 event in Wagga Wagga have just been released and they include the powerful keynote address from award-winning First Nations writer Gayle Kennedy. It’s a terrific speech in which Gayle passionately advocates for much greater commitment to access for and inclusion of people with disability in the arts and cultural sector. Highly recommended. https://artstate.com.au/speakers-program-videos/artstate-keynote-gayle-kennedy-video/



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13/12/2020

05/12/2020

We’re thrilled to be teaming up with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to present our final In-Conversation online event for 2020 on Mon 14 Dec from 10:30am – 12pm. Join artists and 2020 Archibald Prize finalists Emily Crockford, Digby Webster and Neil Tomkins as they discuss their art and careers with studio A CEO/Artistic Director Gabrielle Mordy and performance artist David Capra. Our In-Conversation program profiles arts practitioners with disability. The session will be pre-recorded but the artists will be available to chat live online with event attendees throughout the session. The session will have closed captioning, Auslan interpretation and audio description. Places are limited. REGISTER NOW: https://aartsincon14dec2020.eventbrite.com.au



Image Description: Two male artists and one female artist stand alongside painted portraits of themselves. The portraits of the male artists feature blue and brown colours. The portrait of the female artist features green, yellow and pink.

03/12/2020

Congratulations Emily Crockford, Gaelle Mellis and Abbie Madden!

Her bright and bold palette features in large public art commissions from Barangaroo to the WestConnex Motorway and in an intimate self-portrait hung in this year's Archibald Prize.

03/12/2020

Thanks to Riverside Theatres Parramatta for sharing WAFF Online with their community. Details in the link below.

02/12/2020

Thanks SAMAG!

With International Day of People with Disability this week, we take a look back through our archive at how well the arts have managed this conversation, and what still needs to change.