St Kilda Film Festival

Overview

The St Kilda Film Festival came into fruition 30 years ago, when rather than backpackers, weekend markets and latte-sipping bourgeois society the seaside suburb was synonymous with drug abuse, prostitution and general grittiness. Raw and unlikely environments being the historically rich breeding grounds for artistic practice that they are, since then the event has grown from a small weekend affair to become Australia’s largest and now, longest running, short film festival, which this year takes place over an extended nine-day programme.

Here’s the long and the short of it — the Top 100 short films from around the nation, the SoundKILDA Music Video Competition (if you liked watching Rage and Video Hits more than cartoons as a kid, you’ll like this) and an exclusive SXSW Film Festival showcase, all the way from Texas (where everything is bigger, but when it comes to cinema, not necessarily longer), to name but a few of the screenings taking place.

If you hate to risk walking out of a cinema dissapointed, by squeezing as many as nine movies into a single screening the St Kilda Film Festival exponentially increases your chances of customer satisfaction.

Image Bino, 2011, via st.kildafilmfestival.com.au