SSFF2015 launches!

Sunshine Super HeroesEntries are open from Friday 1st  May and will close Wednesday 30th September 2015

“Superhero” is the theme for the 2015 Sunshine Short Film Festival competition the only community based film festival in the west. Both budding and accomplished film makers are invited to enter an original film five minutes or less featuring their very own version of a Superhero real or imagined and compete for prizes worth up to $5,000.

The categories for entry this year are PRIMARY for those films that feature primary school children involved in key creative roles in the production (script, conception), SECONDARY for films that feature secondary school children in key creative roles production roles and the OPEN for everybody else.

Judging is by popular vote and there are lots of prizes to be won. The prize for the winning primary school entry is $500. There are three prizes for secondary school entries: 3rd place wins $500, 2nd place $1,000 and 1st place gets $2,000. The winner in the open category gets a grand $5,000. We also have a judge’s prize awarded for artistic and cinematic merit open to entries in all categories.

All finalists’ films will be screened at Village Cinemas Sunshine on Friday 30th October at a red carpet, gala event.

Bruce White, Chair of the Sunshine Business Association and Director SSFF is really looking forward to the 2015 festival. “We keep building on the success of the previous festivals. This year should be really exciting particularly with the superhero theme. We are surrounded by superheros” Bruce said “both people around us and in our ownimaginations. We don’t want the ususal suspects but people’s own ideas of what makes a superhero.”

The Festival is sponsored by the Sunshine Business Association, Brimbank Council, Village Cinemas Sunshine, Academy of Design Australian and Open Channel.