Canberra International Film Festival

The Canberra International Film Festival (CIFF) is an annual film festival held in Canberra, Australia. It is a cinema celebration across an 11-day program in October/November each year. It is a showcase of films from Australia and around the globe.[1]

Canberra International Film Festival
LocationNational Film and Sound Archive, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Founded1996
Festival dateOctober/November
Websiteciff.com.au

In addition to screening feature films and documentaries, there is always a suite of additional events such as Q&A sessions, workshops and panel discussions with directors, producers, actors and the broad range of artists involved in the filmmaking process.

History

The University of Canberra was the initiator of the Canberra International Film Festival.[2] For each Festival from 1996 until 2001, either through its Convocation or directly, the University provided the artistic direction, and was also the promoter, manager and underwriter of the festival.[3]

In 2002, as part of a comprehensive plan to restructure the Canberra International Film Festival and secure its future, ownership was transferred to an Incorporated Association. The Canberra International Film Festival is a not-for-profit organisation supported by local and federal government, corporate sponsors and cultural partners.

Artistic Directors
  • Michael Sergi (1996 – 2008)
  • Simon Weaving (2009 – 2012)[4][5]
  • Lex Lindsay (2013 - 2014)
  • Alice Taylor (2016)
  • Andrew Pike (2017)

CIFF Audience Awards
Year Film Director
1996
Children of the Revolution
 Peter Duncan
1997
The King of Masks
 Wu Tianming
1998
Radiance
 Rachel Perkins
1999
The Celebration
 Thomas Vinterberg
2000
Himalaya
 Eric Valli
2001
Amélie
Monsoon Wedding
 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Mira Nair
2003
Good Bye Lenin!
 Wolfgang Becker
2005
Innocent Voices
 Luis Mandoki
2006
Who Killed the Electric Car?
 Chris Paine
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
 Julian Schnabel
2008
Bliss
 Abdullah Oguz
2009
Five Minutes of heaven
 Oliver Hirschbiegel
2010
On Childhood
 Carlos Carrera
2011
Life, Above All
 Oliver Schmitz
2012
The Hunt
 Thomas Vinterberg
2013
Once My Mother
 Sophia Turkiewicz

Notes
  1. Canberra International Film Festival
  2. Lam, Vanessa (19 March 2015). "Canberra International Film Festival's coming of age". Now UC. University of Canberra. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016.
  3. Schumann, Jessica (6 October 2014). "18 years young: Canberra International Film Festival is almost here". Her Canberra. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016.
  4. Dr Simon Weaving, University of Newcastle, retrieved 26 September 2016, Simon was Director of the Canberra International Film Festival from 2009-2012
  5. "Weaving quits film festival". CityNews. 10 December 2012. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016.

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