Reimagining Canberra’s future…
Future Film is the short film competition & festival that’s here to flip the switch on the climate crisis. We’re giving young people a creative platform to express their ideas to solve our most pressing environmental problems. It’s time to regenerate the planet for our generation’s future.
2020 saw the first ever Future Film Festival. The theme was ‘Reimagining Canberra’s Future’. Young filmmakers created awareness about current and future environmental issues, as well as showing off brilliant sustainable ideas for a better future. Genres ranged from fiction animation, to documentary, to stop motion.
SEE Change offered a free online mentoring program, to ensure filmmakers had support in their creative process, even throughout COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions.
For guidelines, prizes, inspiration and how to submit, download the Future Film Participant Pack below.
A screening of all of the entries was held on Friday 27 November 2020 at the Shine Dome. 11 films were screened, and 3 winners announced. The winners and runners up are as follows:
Year 4 - 6 Category Winner: Reese McGee
Year 4 - 6 Category Runner Up: Aria Katavic & Olive Choe
Year 7 - 9 Category Winner: Raechel McKinnon
Year 7 - 9 Category Runner Up: Des McRedmond
18 - 25 Years Category Winner: Isack Hoppitt
18 - 25 Years Category Runner Up: Ashley Parker
Keep an eye on this page for links to the films, so that you can watch from home!
We would love for Future Film Festival to be able to continue providing a creative platform for youth to engage with climate change and sustainability for years to come. If you are able to support with funding and resources to make this happen, please get in touch.
Resources
Gen S Stories, a local filmmaking project, have developed a free resource on screenwriting specifically for Future Film participants, in the form of a Google Slides presentation. This is the first button below. Click through the slides at your leisure and work through the activities. To hear the audio, click the speaker button in the bottom right hand corner of the slide.
The other two buttons will take you to really useful resources on storyboarding and cinematography, developed by acmi.
This project is a collaboration between SEE-Change, ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate, Canberra Short Film Festival and Australian Academy of Science.