Portable Film Festival

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The 48 Hour Film Project Melbourne 2009 is proudly presented by Barnash Productions Inc

Would you count races against time amongst your very favourite things? Feel intrigued by the prospect of high energy/low time/little sanity filmmaking? Well, Victorian filmmakers are invited to another sleepless weekend - to make a film in 48 hours! The 48 Hour Film Project, the world's largest time based film competition, comes back to Melbourne in 2009. On the weekend of 6-8 November expect Melbourne to be full of fierce filmmakers racing to produce their short films within 48 hours… Teams receive a prop, line and character that must appear in their film, and then have just one weekend to get their short film completed. All eligible films are screened at ACMI Studio 1 from Nov 13-15. The best of selection shows off at the Awards Night at ACMI's Big Cinema on Nov 27. For more information visit The 48 Hour Film Project.

Are they zombies? We remain uncertain, but they are underground and it's all very hush-hush…

Underground Cinema is a super-secretive monthly film-screening event held in undisclosed locations throughout Melbourne. It could happen anywhere; a warehouse, a forgotten ballroom, a carpark. They believe that predictability is boring - so they've made the locations and the films a secret surprise! And this is no average film going experience; this is cinema without the multiplex, and a great way to get very far away from the bad popcorn and eyechurning carpet combinations. With a troupe of performers around to shake things up a bit, Underground Cinema promises to mess with your film going mind...

And while they remain so secret that they don't even know who they are, maybe their identity is less important than the likes of you getting on board to be a part of taking cinema out of the cinema and inviting your friends along for the ride...

You in? If so, you should click, wait, here.

Portable is proud to support Ondru, a launching pad for arts and literature – from writing, photography, music, film and performance, Ondru brings a range of voices and diversity of visions to Melbourne's cultural scene, through the presentation of an arts journal, as well as forward thinking exhibitions and community cultural development programs. To learn more about what they do, as well as find out about upcoming events, check out their site here.

Programming across the best in recent Australian short film, FedFest delivers local cinema back to the fore for end of summer screenings in Melbourne. Make sure you check out their site to keep up to date with call for entry details for 2010.

Digital Fringe is an international open access digital arts festival that screens over the internet and on public screens across Australia! It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences. Digital Fringe 09 will create a web of screen art in public space across urban, regional and remote locations around the globe – if you're interested in submitting your film, or can offer any kind of presentation screen, you can get in touch with them at

St Kilda by the sea. Not only the home of semi-quality gelati, and the southern hemisphere's most uncompromisingly rickety rollercoaster, but also a cultural epicentre in itself, thanks in large part to the St Kilda Film Festival! St Kilda Film Fest is a local cultural institution (and has been for the last 26 years); a huge, competitive showcase for the best of Australian produced short films and storytelling, as well as being the home of SOUNDKilda, one of Australia's most prestigious music video events; an international program. youth and industry based events, and general good times six days over…
Portable is proud to partner with one of Australia's most significant film events – find out more about St Kilda Film Festival here.

Portable is proud to announce its partnership with the State of Design Festival! Established in 2004, State of Design Festival is Australia's premier design event, and the public face of the Design Victoria Strategy. The festival runs annually, and works to promote a deeper understanding of design capability and value, showcasing how design generates innovation, promotes sustainability and adds value to business and society.
The 2009 State of Design Festival will take place in mid - July throughout metropolitan Melbourne, and regional centres around Victoria, with more than 100,000 people expected to take part in the festival's 75 co-ordinated events.
You can check out State of Design Festival's 2009 program here.

Eyeka is an online platform that enables brands, agencies and publishers to successfully engage with a whole lot of creative types for some new fangled community generated advertising…
By operating calls for entries against a community of 50.000 quality photographers, graphic designers and video creators, Eyeka enables brands to source tailored, quality user-generated content while ensuring brand control and operating within a defined legal framework. Eyeka has involved high profile brands such as Canon, Vivendi, L'Oréal, MTV, and Vodafone…
Contributors in turn have the opportunity to be recognized and rewarded through an ongoing swag of prizes and online delivered kudos! See what Eyeka offers filmmakers and creatives.

The Melbourne International Film Festival is an iconic Australian event. Offering film-shaped respite from the wintry Melbourne ‘weather' every July, and taking in 185,000 admissions a year, MIFF is Australia's biggest film festival! With 58 years in the business and a program spanning over 50 countries, MIFF is also one of the world's oldest and most established film festivals; and Portable is pleased to be on board for 2009! Watch out for content, competitions and all things MIFF right around here…

The network shows young adults what's going on in their world, in their voice. Current is also the first network in history whose programming is supplied in part by the very audience who watches it. It has developed the television industry's leading model of "viewer created content" (VC2), which comprises roughly one-third of Current's on-air broadcast.

Time is at a premium in this harum-scarum world and people need to jump online and know where to go for the coolest content. They give props to new pop culture discoveries and by working together, the Portable Film Festival and Lost at E-Minor are making life online a good bit easier for people.

From the co-creators of Kazaa and Skype comes Joost - truly interactive television! With a full library of 20,000 programs and counting, over 400 channels, all available for free and screening online in broadcast quality, Joost represents a major media force in the development of online television.

And with quality programming coming from a range of big name providers, from CBS to MTV, Comedy Central to Aardman Animation, Joost promises to deliver the best of television with the best of web usability and interactivity!

PFF loves Unicorns. And not just those semi-mythical, semi-magical conehead type horses. We're talking Unicorn Media, an online entertainment destination that's changing the way artists and audiences interact with each other. Your common or garden content aggregators may offer broad exposure at a base level, but Unicorn lets your favourite filmmakers, musicians, artists and general video get paid as you watch, browse and comment on their latest and greatest, all for free. Unicorn seeks to draw together and connect artists and entertainment producers, providing a net model where those who produce, benefit! With daily additions to a quality library of short film, online serial and music video, Unicorn provides the content to keep audiences watching and the business to keep cameras rolling!

Portable is proud to announce media partnership within the vowel-reconstructing-yet-lovable territories of our southern cousin, New Zealand!

Alt TV, New Zealand's fastest growing music channel, and the first NZ channel to stream live 24/7, caters for those bored and jaded with the major networks, and supports a high quotient of quality local content and emerging filmmakers and broadcast practitioners. Now screening via SKY Digital in NZ, and everywhere, via its live streaming platform, Alt TV brings the best in New Zealand broadcast to the wide world of web!

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The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere posting videos online, we felt the time was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre.

Digital Media is Australia's only magazine dedicated to the coverage of the evolving new media landscape. Providing an essential source of news and strategic intelligence for professionals navigating the commercial side of the online, interactive and mobile marketing communications sectors, Digital Media is available as a bi-monthly print and online magazine, and is supported by a weekly newsletter and online portal. Delivering thought leadership on the issues, challenges and opportunities faced by the digital media segment from the industry's leading strategists, analysts, and executives, Digital Media identifies the ideas, trends and innovations that are revolutionizing the traditional business practices of media, entertainment and technology.

Of course, you already know YouTube - largest user generated content site on the planet - everyone posts, everyone watches, everyone shares... From citizen journalism to short film, from Hollywood production to handycam confession, YouTube provides a mass platform and a mass audience for people to broadcast their ideas, their interests, and themselves!

Portable Film Festival is proud to align itself with the go-to destination online for user generated content - you can check out festival films and highlights via Portable Film Festival's YouTube channel, or keep an eye out for upcoming featured content, taking Portable front page and to the world via YouTube!

Between the endless philosophising, and the difficult cubist periods, working in the arts is never easy. But for those serious about equipping themselves with the best knowhow, industry insight and community connections to succeed in the Australian arts sector, ArtsHub is your friend. Serving over 50,000 creative professionals, and 600 organisations, Arts Hub is the Australian online destination for local arts industry, keeping arts practitioners connected and informed with the latest creative job prospects, industry news, and the latest reviews of arts initiatives around the country.

Portable says Lei Ho! We'll be taking our 2008 Best of Fest program in search of quality yum cha and Cantopop next year with our Asia-Pacific festival partner, the Hong Kong Mobile Film Festival.

The Hong Kong Mobile Film Festival is one of Hong Kong's most innovative film festival events, and aims to get content producers and audiences into making the most of the mobile film space, educating and encouraging professionals and students to get their production skills together for the mobile medium, and getting quality content to consumer handsets.

The event runs for six months annually, taking in competitions, exhibitions, film marathons and community initiatives, all geared towards provoking new ideas towards the development of mobile film. Portable Film Festival is proud to partner with the Hong Kong Mobile Film Festival!

Bringing you the best in socially aware storytelling from all over the globe, the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) exists to make human rights accessible, relevant and significant to the broader Australian community through a range of amazing films, events, speakers, musicians and visual artists.

With a range of screening events happening throughout 2009, HRAFF will challenge, touch and inspire audiences from all walks of life.

Check them out here.

Bicycle Film Festival

On its eighth annual trail through international cities, the Bicycle Film Festival will be rolling into Melbourne for the second time from Wednesday 19th until Sunday 23rd of November 2008. From slick fixed gear gods to spokey-doke adorners, the Bicycle Film Festival brings together Melbourne's diverse range of bike riders to celebrate man's beloved mechanical companion. The festival will screen an array of international and local films, and continue its promotion of the bicycle through a side-program of art, music, and fashion festivities. Set in CBD venues all within a bunny-hop of each other, this year's festival is certain to see the city blossoming with bicycle love. For more information go to www.bicyclefilmfestival.com.au