Accelerator

Accelerator

Now in its fifth year, Accelerator has firmly established itself as a pre-eminent showcase of new Australian and New Zealand shorts. Featuring for the first time filmmakers from Ireland and Singapore, Accelerator has secured international recognition as an esteemed industry program. The filmmakers have been selected to shift gears in their development and to gain a broader appreciation of the culture of film internationally, within one of the largest film festivals in the Asia Pacific region.

Accelerator Program One

Sessions

6012 Accelerator Program One (85 mins)
Haze (14 mins)
Cargo (12 mins)
The Sky Is Always Beautiful (14 mins)
This is Her (12 mins)
Ahmad's Garden (15 mins)
Careful with that Axe (2 mins)
He.she.It (15 mins)
Hawker (13 mins)
 Sun 27 Jul 1:00 PM Capitol
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Accelerator Program Two

Sessions

6013 Accelerator Program Two (91 mins)
Hell's Gates (21 mins)
296 Smith Street (15 mins)
Dissection (9 mins)
Betty Banned Sweets (14 mins)
Family Man (9 mins)
New Boy (11 mins)
Jerrycan (13 mins)
 Sun 27 Jul 3:00 PM Capitol
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Accelerated Fiction

Sessions

2046 Accelerated Fiction (89 mins)
Four (18 mins)
Funk, The (7 mins)
Netherland Dwarf (15 mins)
Nice Shootin' Cowboy (15 mins)
Directions (14 mins)
Ground Beneath, The (20 mins)
 Sat 2 Aug 3:00 PM Greater Union 6
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Accelerated documentary shorts

Sessions

2086 Accelerated Documentary Shorts (91 mins)
Cicada (9 mins)
HEART (30 mins)
River of No Return (55 mins)
 Sat 9 Aug 3:15 PM Greater Union 6
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Congratulations to the selected participants

John Alsop, Jonathan Auf Der Heide, Julius Avery, Anthony Chen, Callum Cooper, Jeremy Cumpston, John Evagora, Dustin Feneley, Steph Green, Michelle Savill, Hugh Sullivan, Aaron Wilson, Katie Wolfe and Leo Woodhead.

 

 

 

Accelerator is a Melbourne International Film Festival initiative in partnership with Screen Australia, Film Victoria, the Ian Potter Foundation,The New Zealand Film Commission and in association with The Irish Film Board,The Singapore Commission and the Australian Centre for Moving Image and Warp Films.