Film & Television
Introduction News & Opportunities Television Content & ProvidersSBS ABC Film Australia BeyondFilm Festivals Central Eastern Europe & Turkey and Australia & NZ Study Opportunities LinksAustralia International Hungary New Zealand Tasmania NSW Victoria Western Australia South Australia Queensland
Australia and New Zealand have internationally renowned film and television industry with Australia receiving over 35 Academy plus many Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. Many would recognise Australian film, television series, documentaries and both actors and technical staff working on international projects.
Naming just a few famous actors: Errol Flynn, Rod Taylor, Peter Finch, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Noemi Watts, Anthony LaPaglia, Russell Crowe, Judy Davis, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pierce, Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Neil, Rachel Griffiths, Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana etc. Directors include Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Paul Cox, Jane Campion, George Miller, Phillip Noyce, Fred Schepisi, Peter Weir, Scott Hicks, Baz Luhrmann and more!
QUEST became involved in Australian film through assisting Pro-Four’s Andrew Sebestyen to attract sponsorship for the II Boomerang Film Festival held in Hungary 2004 in addition to students seeking festivals and competitions for submission of productions.
QUEST has compiled a listing of international film festivals held annually in Central Europe, Turkey, Australia and NZ for both students and producers. Further, international students can study all facets of tv and film production in Australia and New Zealand via many of our partner institutions and potentially work in industry.
QUEST can advise on and offer content to television stations through various production and distributor companies. Following are examples of previews available with independent reviews and we are adding to this list regularly:
Special Broadcasting Service SBS:
“Australia’s public service broadcaster should take its act global. With its daily line-up of international newscasts, its home grown-grown global news bulletins, hot-doc series and international mix of dramas, comedies and films, it could easily build a loyal following among people who like smart, original, surprising, programming and are desperate for a trusted brand”
Tyler Brule, ‘Ten brands to brighten up an unscheduled visit to Las Vegas’, Financial Times, 7-8 January 2006.
“Fork in Australia” - Documentary - Episodes 5-8 - series of quirky international travel/lifestyle programs, A Fork in Australia focuses on indicative aspects of the Australian way of life.
“A Wine Lovers Guide to Australia” – Documentary - Series 1 (eps 1-4)
“A Food Lovers Guide to Australia” – Documentary - Series 4 (eps 1-3)
Australian Broadcasting Commission ABC:“An Australian Odyssey” - Documentary - 4 episodes - an eclectic jopurney through vineyeards and cellars explaining the world of wine.
“Quantum Magazine” - Documentary - (Seasons 2 & 3) 4 episodes - mysteries of the universe, unveiling the secrets of the stars and space, creating a sustainable environment, technology that is part of our lives and understanding the world in which we live.
“Bush Tucker Man” - Documentary - Series 2
“Bush Tucker Man" – Documentary - Stories of Survival”
“The Unique Continent” - Documentary
“Mother & Son” – Comedy - Series 1 & 5 - multi award winning comedy about the trials and tribulations of an elderly widow and the son who lives with her.Selection of Australian award winning documentary titles relating to Animation, Asia Pacific, Arts, Contemporary Life, History, Natural History & Environment
Television programs include:
Travel - “Lonely Planet’s Six Degrees”
Technology “Beyond 2000 & Tomorrow”Films include:
Crackerjack - When dwindling membership and increasing overheads make a local bowling club a prime candidate for takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club. In what turns into an epic battle, young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
Idiot Box - Two unemployed men, bored by life and angry at the world, spend their time drinking beer and watching videos until one day they actually decide to do something - rob a bank.
Kiss or Kill - Al and Nikki are lovers on the run from the police, heading across the Nullarbor. When a series of murders are committed along the way, each begins to suspect the other as the killer.
Lantana - A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them survive. LANTANA is a psychological thriller about love. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer, and the attempts we make to fix things up.
Looking for Alibrandi - Nonna Katia, Christina and Josie are three generations of Italian-Australian women living together in a hothouse atmosphere of love, support...and drama on an operatic scale.
Spotswood - A majestic saga sweeping two suburbs. It is the late 1960s. A 'time and motion' expert is called in to moderate Ball's moccasin factory. Amidst this upheaval an 18-year-old youth attempts a major romantic takeover.
Strictly Ballroom - When a young ballroom champion defies the all-powerful Federation by dancing his own steps, his dream of winning the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix is shattered. His career seems in jeopardy until help comes from an unexpected quarter and he finds the courage to challenge the Federation.
Wog Boy - A comedy about love, politics, sex, religion, culture, cars and pizza. But not in that order.
Film Festivals in Australia, NZ, Central Eastern
Europe & Turkey:
If you are film students, independent or corporate producers there are many international festivals you may not know of.
Go through these links for Australia/NZ and CEE/Turkey
Students have opportunity to enter related study in Australia or New Zealand at vocational, university or post graduate levels. Program types include visual arts, film & tv, animation, theatre, photography, digital media and video production via the Australian International Education Centre and Film Australia Learning Portal
Australian Cultural & Recreation Portal www.acn.net.au
Australian Film Commission www.afc.gov.au
Australian Film Institute www.afi.org.au
Ausfilm Australian Film & TV Information www.ausfilm.com.au
Australian Television Directory
Community Radio Broadcasting Communty of Australia www.cbaa.org.au
Special Broadcasting Service SBS Television Multicultural Programming www20.sbs.com.au
Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com
Australian Film Festival Istanbul 1994 "Anything is Possible in Istanbul"
Inside Film www.if.com
Independent Film Makers Resource www.uniquefilms.com
Hungarian Film Industry www.hungarianfilm.com
Hungarian Film Studios www.mafilm.hu
II Australian Boomerang Film Festival Hungary www.boomerangfilms.com
Edenz & New Zealand Film Academy www.edenz.com
Screen Tasmania www.screen.tas.gov.au
TAFE Tasmania www.get-tasmania.edu.au
NSW Film & Television Office www.fto.nsw.gov.au
National Institute of Dramatic Art www.nida.unsw.edu.au
Australian Film Television & Radio School www.aftrs.edu.au
Charles Sturt University www.csu.edu.au
The University of Sydney www.arts.usyd.edu.au
TAFE NSW www.studyintafe.edu.au
University of Technology Sydney www.hss.uts.edu.au
Channel 31 Melbourne's Community TV including Hungarian and Romanian programs www.channel31.org.au
Open Channel Victoria's Screen Resource Agency www.openchannel.org.au
Film Victoria www.film.vic.gov.au
Box Hill TAFE www.bhtafe.edu.au
Holmesglen TAFE www.holmesglen.vic.edu.au
La Trobe University www.latrobe.edu.au
Monash University www.artdes.monash.edu.au
North Melbourne TAFE www.nmit.vic.edu.au
RMIT University www.rmit.edu.au
Swinburne University www.hed.swin.edu.au
Victorian College of the Arts www.vca.unimelb.edu.au
Film & Television Institute WA www.fti.asn.au
Edith Cowan University www.cci.ecu.edu.au
Murdoch University www.mcc.murdoch.edu.au
TAFE Western Australia www.tiwa.com.au
Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts www.waapa.ecu.edu.au
South Australian Film Corporation www.safilm.com.au
Flinders University www.flinders.edu.au
TAFE South Australia www.tafe.sa.edu.au
Pacific Television & Film Commission www.pftc.com.au
Griffith University www.griffith.edu.au
James Cook University College of Music, Visual Arts & Theatre (COMVAT) www.jcu.edu.au
QLD School of Film & Television www.qsft.qld.edu.au
QLD University of Technology Creative Industries www.creativeindustries.qut.com
Southbank Institute of TAFE www.southbank.tafe.net