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Digital Games / Events / Play Now  11 Oct 2023

Play Now Melbourne 2023 highlights

Play Now Melbourne is Australia's pre-eminent games market. As part of Melbourne International Games Week, Play Now Melbourne was held on 5 October 2023 at the State Library of Victoria. It featured an impressive line-up of leading international and local publishers, platform holders and investors, hearing pitches from more than 40 projects from across Australia. Here are some of the highlights from the day.

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Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2023 highlights

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is the largest annual celebration of Indian cinema outside India. IFFM showcases some of the most diverse, inclusive, groundbreaking films and filmmakers, whilst encapsulating the best of cinema from the Indian subcontinent. Here are some of the highlights of the 2023 festival. 

Film & TV  7 Aug 2023

Your MIFF 2023 watchlist sorted

The Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) 71st edition boasts some of the most anticipated films of the year. We’ve pulled together a list of VicScreen supported films that we’ll be adding to our watchlist this year. 

Play Now  5 Aug 2023

Play Now Melbourne has launched! Here’s how to get involved.

VicScreen is calling on Australian game developers to mark their calendars for 5 October 2023 and participate in Australia's foremost games market, Play Now Melbourne. 

Play Now  5 Aug 2023

PLAY NOW MELBOURNE - LAUNCH OF AUSTRALIA’S GAMES MARKET

Today marks the launch of Play Now Melbourne, the inaugural Australian international games market. 

Features / Film & TV  4 Jul 2023

PRESS PLAY THIS NAIDOC WEEK

This National NAIDOC week, celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by hitting play on some of the best TV series and films from First Nations creators.  

Media Releases  28 Jun 2023

Jenny Taing OAM Appointed to VicScreen Board

Esteemed financial services expert, Jenny Taing OAM has been appointed to the VicScreen Board.

Features  22 Jun 2023

Saving Hakeem

The Defenders documents the true story of Bahraini footballer turned Australian asylum seeker, Hakeem al-Araibi, and the people who fought to save him from a life-threatening ordeal. 
 

Media Releases  14 Jun 2023

Game-changing Funding For Emerging Screen Talent

Four feature films from VicScreen's inaugural Originate Features initiative are set to be fully financed and greenlit through a $2.8 million investment and applications open for the groundbreaking TV development program, Originate Series.

Features  1 Jun 2023

Sweet As: how a teenage photo camp inspired Jub Clerc’s life in film

We spoke to Jub Clerc about creating her debut feature film, Sweet As, the enormous global reception it’s received at international film festivals, and the real-life events which inspired this transformative coming-of-age road movie. 

Features  18 May 2023

World-class claymation in production in Melbourne

Thousands of clay ears, eyes, noses, and mouths are currently on rotation in Adam Elliot’s stop-motion studio in Docklands, Melbourne. The Academy Award-winning auteur is hard at work executing his second full-length feature, Memoir of a Snail. 

Features  18 May 2023

The true story behind The Voice

Director Poppy Stockell uncovers the highs and lows of John Farnham’s career in music in a new tell-all biopic: John Farnham: Finding the Voice.

Australia Has A New Matchmaking Capital

The universally beloved franchise, The Bachelor, is heading to Australia's most liveable city, where, for the first time in the history of the series, roses will be handed out on Victorian soil.