33 AFTRS Student and Alumni films on show at Sydney Film Festival 2021
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33 AFTRS students and alumni films have been selected to screen at this year’s edition of Sydney Film Festival. Now in its 68th year, the festival will bring over 230 features, documentaries and short films from around the world to cinemas in Sydney and SFF On Demand from 12-21 November.
Four short films made by AFTRS students are featured this year, two of them world premiere screenings and one selected for the prestigious Dendy Awards competition.
Sunnies, written and directed by Ismail Khan (Master of Arts Screen: Directing) will have its world premiere at the Festival. The film was recently named joint Best Film – Fiction Prize at this year’s CILECT CAPA Awards, the Asia-Pacific Association of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools. Sunnies was produced by Bachelor of Arts Screen: Production student Skye Leon and additional Master of Arts Screen students in key crew roles include James Ward-Miller (cinematographer), Sean Doyle (sound recordist and sound supervisor), Alexander Cox (editor) and James Mountain (music score).
AFTRS CEO Nell Greenwood said: “We are delighted that our students will have the opportunity to present their films in the cinema and experience a live audience response to their work. It’s encouraging to see such fruitful creative collaborations between AFTRS students. I congratulate all of our filmmakers selected for the 2021 Sydney Film Festival.”
