October 2009

Award success for ICE project participants

Arab Film Festival Goes National

» This November, the Arab Film Festival is travelling across Australia for the first time. The national tour kicks off in Sydney before heading to Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide. This special touring program features the most entertaining, moving and exciting films as voted by audiences from our annual four-day festival held in Parramatta. Come along for yourself and find out why cinema-goers have fallen in love with the Arab Film Festival! More »

Let Artfiles shine the spotlight on you!

» Want to appear on the front page of the Artfiles website? Artfiles, the key portal to the diverse and dynamic world of the arts in Western Sydney, offers all members of it’s community the chance to be profiled as part of the In Focus series. In Focus profiles offer Artfiles visitors and your artistic colleagues the opportunity to learn more about you and your work. It’s a wonderful way to lift your profile and is fantastic resource for an artist or organisation. More »

TROPWEST News Flash

» TropWest 2009 is on this Saturday (Oct 17) from 12 – 4pm at Rafferty’s Theatre, Riverside Parramatta. Speed-meet high profile producers, directors and others on how to succeed in the screen and filmmaking industry! Meet the people behind East West 101, Cedar Boys, The Combination and Ten Empty and get the low-down on how to enter Tropfest 2010. More »

Award success for ICE project participants

ICE congratulates all the participants from past and present projects who have enjoyed success at the recent WOW Film Festival, 48 Hour Film Festival and TropWest Awards. More »

Discussion Forum: Filmmaking in the Vietnamese Diaspora

ICE is supporting an exciting discussion forum led by Vietlish regarding the current trends of the Vietnamese diaspora film industry. The event kicks off at 7pm on Saturday 31 October at Fairfield School of Arts. This event is free but bookings are essential so act soon to reserve your spot. More »

Learn all about Podcasting and Digital Storytelling at ICE

This October we have been running a series of introductory sessions as part of our CONNECT IT and Digital Media Training Program. If you’re quick there’s still time to reserve a spot in our last two workshops for this month: Podcasting and Radio (Oct 16) and Introduction to Digital Storytelling (Oct 23). As a special offer, we are offering five FREE places to each of these sessions on a first in, first served basis. More »

TropWest 2009!

TropWest is a public forum and info session for Western Sydney filmmakers who are interested in entering Movie Extra Tropfest. Come along on October 17 to hear from Tropfest staff, see some of the award-winning films and speed meet with the best from the industry to discuss your ideas. The winner of ICE’s TropWest Scholarship Award will also be announced. More »