CLIFF 2017

The Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival (CLIFF), now in its fifth year, will be held at the iconic Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia from 17th-19th November 2017. CLIFF is a volunteer-run community organisation dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences in film. A feature of the festival is the local film competition – open to people living or filming within a 100km radius of Castlemaine. The competition is judged by a panel of industry professionals. Primary and secondary school students are invited to grab a smartphone, an iPod or some other filming device, and make a short film up to 4 minutes’ duration to enter into the Kids category. Adults are invited to submit a film of up to 10 minutes duration. Finalists will have their film shown on the big screen at the film festival on Sunday 19th of November. (As a broad guideline to entrants, the films will be screened to a general public audience in a country town of Australia on a Sunday afternoon. There are kids at the screening, however we do usher children out of the cinema for a more adult portion of the program. Judges will have the screening conditions in mind when judging along with excellence in film making.)