Meet The 10 Young Australian Filmmakers of The Year
The imagination and technical proficiency of Australia’s emerging filmmakers never ceases to amaze the BBFF programming team, whose challenging job is to select just 10 films from all those submitted by these visual storytellers for entry into the Festival’s Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year Competition. The competition, which has run every year since 2007, is designed to encourage fledgling filmmakers and reward those artists whose work embodies the boldness, intelligence, sensitivity, and flair that bode well for their future in the demanding, competitive—and endlessly rewarding—world of cinema. It has proved a launchpad into the industry for innumerable young creatives.
The lineup of talented filmmakers in this year’s Festival—the 18th—has once again impressed the BBFF team with their display of precisely those qualities, creating cinematic experiences that go beyond entertainment to become art. Urgent contemporary issues as well as age-old mysteries of the human condition are explored with wit and no little wisdom in this selection. Among them are the matters of death and grieving, sexual identity (and bullying), the creative impulse, loneliness, mental health, peer pressure, and the challenges faced by migrants.
Join BBFF in celebrating this exhilarating showcase of human experience, a testament to the power of cinema and its ability to connect, challenge, and inspire, and evidence that the future of Australian cinema is in good hands. The BBFF2024 Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year screening takes place at 2.40pm on Saturday, October 19 at Byron Palace, with many of the nominees in attendance.