Sydney Film Festival 2020 will happen just in a brand new way
Our famed film fest is still with us only this year it will be live streamed thanks to the pandemic lockdown and social distancing rules.
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The Sydney Film Festival is an event film buffs and those connected to the industry look forward to all year. Chatter as to who will scoop the awards at the following year’s festival and, equally as controversially, who will not, tends to begin a full 12 months before the event is scheduled to occur.
And that’s easy to understand when you consider that the Sydney Film Festival is the Australian version of the Oscars, with the quality of the entries every bit as good – occasionally even better.
This year, however, the event will not look anything like its usual self.
Yes, it will go ahead – but not as we know and love it.
From June 10 to 21, 2020, SFF will present important elements of its 2020 line-up: world premieres of compelling true stories from some of Australia’s most exciting documentary filmmakers, a program of shorts from rising stars of the Australian film industry, and films from Europe’s most cutting-edge female directors.
For the first time, festival attendees around Australia will be able to buy tickets and packages to experience the Sydney Film Festival wherever they are.
The 67th SFF Edition will present the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary, the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and Europe! Voices of Women in Film.
“This year’s special 67th Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition and Awards is all about bringing audiences across the nation together at a particularly challenging time in celebration of filmmakers and particularly the Australian film industry,” says Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley.
“For almost 70 years, Sydney Film Festival has been the way we collectively explore the world and our times through the medium of film.
“It is two weeks in June when Sydney is as we know and love it – open, alive, inquisitive, inspired and connected – and we with it.
“SFF is when we came together to discover, discuss, explore; to be transformed and always entertained. So, from our homes the journey continues.”
