Anoop Lokkur

About the Project

The Poetry in Film Festival (PIFF) is the initiative that aims to bring the Australian arts community together with a festival combining film and poetry.

PIFF 2012 in its third year, is an exciting and innovative short film festival based in Melbourne, Australia. Although its home is Melbourne, the festival will tour around the country where the top films will be screened at Palace Cinema locations in Sydney and Brisbane.

PIFF is looking for $2,000 funding as prize money for the filmmakers which they will receive along with in kind prizes that can help them along in their career.

Entrants in the festival are given a piece of modern poetry. From there they are free to interpret the poem in the form of a 4-7 min short film however they see fit.

The films will be judged by a team of industry professionals and awards will be given for the following criteria:

• Best Direction

• Best Cinematography

• Best Film (Best interpretation of the poem)

• Audience Choice (judged on the PIFF Showcase and Awards Night)

• Best Performance
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2012 Poem

We have recently confirmed this years poem which will inspire film makers:
from Freo
By Kevin Gillam

it’s the jaundiced streetlight. it’s the black-lined lung of harbor. it’s
the hum of unthinking. it’s the bill- boards screaming. it’s Friday bleeding. it’s the unsilence. it’s a fresh tongue of tar. it’s the whiff of poss- ibility. it’s tail lights in
soft focus. it’s a bottle-top
sky. it’s the unsilence. it’s un- seens and schemings. it’s the strip and neon hit. it’s the smeared mirror’s lie. it’s the unsilence. it’s the
lips of driveway. it’s the first
sip of stopping. it’s the silence

PIFF 2012 Judges

Sonya Humpry, an award-winning producer and poet hailing from South Australia. Her second short film “The Kiss”, written and directed by Ashlee Page, won many awards including the Dendy and two prestigious AFI Awards – one for Best Short Fiction Film and one for Outstanding Screen Craft.http://www.sacredcowfilms.com.au/

Jessica Lawton, an emerging filmmaker and a judge of the 2012 Poetry in Film Festival. Jessica made her directorial debut in 2010 with the award winning graduate short filmMorning Star. See Jessica’s next production here http://www.jessicalawton.com/#!you-and-i-brigitte.

Shaun Miller is a Film and entertainment lawyer who has dedicated his career to the Australian film community. Shaun was a Partner in the Media Department atMarshalls & Dent Lawyers, and has over 10 years of experience in the area of film and entertainment law. He has recently launched his own firm http://www.shaunmillerlawyers.com.au/

Also, PIFF now has a patron! The award winning author and novelist, Peter Goldsworthy. His poetry can be read and heard at The Poetry Archive www.poetryarchive.org

The best films will be screened at the PIFF Showcase and Awards Night on 18th November 2012 at the Palace Cinema Como, Melbourne, where the awards ceremony will take place. An after party will follow, where filmmakers have a chance to network with fellow filmmakers, PIFF organisers and industry professionals alike. The films will be screened in Sydney on the 21st November at Palace Chauvel and 28th November in Brisbane at Palace Barracks Cinema.

Our Goal

The $2,000 funding we are looking for is for the filmmakers. We are hoping to encourage filmmakers to enter the festival by offering cash prizes to the winners of the various categories on offer.

PIFF is hoping to become an integral part of the annual cultural agenda and it ‘s with the support of people like you that will help to ensure this happens.

For more information about the festival, please visit our website at: www.poetryinfilmfestival.com.au