Our Gala Finalists announced!

Our Gala Finalists announced!

This is the most exciting time of our year, when we get to share with you all of our finalists for our 8th Annual Season. Drum roll please for the best smartphone short films from all across the world – the SF3 2022 Gala Finalists!
1. Jot and Flick by Kailee Cristina Brown
2. Karl Heinz by Andrew Robb Films
3. After Songs by Paco Wen, Chris Lee & Hardy Hu
4. Beneath the Lonesome Sky by Rob Layton
5. Big Dumb Animal by Schuyler Willson and Megan Sipos
6. Forever Home by Artsy Solomon
7. Ghosted by Danny Barton
8. Songlines of Change by Kara Rose
9. Daddy’s Assessment by Aaron Scully – Actor
10. Who I Was Before I Forgot by Naomi Sequeira
11. One Yarn by Michael Harris
12. The Unseen by Tom Major
14. FREE by Cassius Rayner
15. V by Tallulah Redmond-Stephen
16. Roots by Harlisha New-Joe
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS FROM ALL OF US AT SF3!! And come and see these truly magnificent films on the big screen at our 8th Annual Gala Finals on Saturday 5th November at the Actors Centre Australia in Sydney, Australia. Early bird tickets on sale now with code SF3earlybird at https://SF32022.eventbrite.com.au
FREE school holiday workshop in Lithgow in 3 weeks!

FREE school holiday workshop in Lithgow in 3 weeks!

INSPIRING ALL LOCAL10-18 YEAR-OLDS WITH A SMARTPHONE TO TELL STORIES THROUGH FILM with our FREE workshop at the Lithgow Transformation Hub this Spring school holidays Tuesday 27th September from 1-5pm. https://events.humanitix.com/sf3-film-workshop
This FREE workshop for 10-18 year-olds will be delivered by us in partnership with Lithgow City Council and is part of the Holiday Break Program from Create NSW. Learn smart device skills to turn you into a creativity powerhouse and together we will make sure you have all the skills to make professional films on your phone or tablet, we will brainstorm and write your ideas, go out and shoot them and learn to edit the films into masterpieces! See you there.
BTS for your inspiration

BTS for your inspiration

We wanted to share these amazing BTS pics from an SF3 2022 entry by Sydney first-time filmmaker, Danny Barton. How amazing are these? Don’t forget you’ve got until September 1st, 2022 to get us your entries for the chance to share in over $50,000 in prizes and screen at our festival happening both live and online Nov 5th and 6th. Plus don’t forget to share your BTS pics and vids with us as we love to see what you are all up to.

Get on to this amazing opportunity now!

Get on to this amazing opportunity now!

Pitch an SF3 film idea for your chance to have your film professionally cast by Australia’s leading casting agents, Chicken and Chips Casting. You have 1 week to submit your 2 minute video pitch and the winner will have some of Australia’s leading actors star in their film and have it screened at SF3 2022. We want all film ideas no matter the budget, from $0 up to making it rain, from all across Australia.
STEPS:
1. Send a 2 min video pitch of your film idea to sf3@sf3.com.au. The pitch doesn’t have to be anything fancy. We just want to see you and your idea, tell us about your concept, your story, the characters etc. The deadline for pitches is midnight AEST Sunday 3rd July, 2022.
2. The C&C team will review pitches and give SF3 the shortlist by Monday 11th July.
3. Shortlisted films will be asked to send in their completed scripts by 18th July.
4. The C&C team will make their winner selection by 22nd July.
5. The winner will work with C&C to cast their film and have approx 1 month to shoot their film for the SF3 September 1st deadline.