Gippsland International Film Festival

Gippsland International Film Festival Film festival running in West Gippsland in March 2027

We have some super exciting news!We're proud to announce that we have partnered with Warragul for our opening night on ...
09/09/2026

We have some super exciting news!

We're proud to announce that we have partnered with Warragul for our opening night on Friday 12th March 2027 AND Saturday 13th March 2027 (around a filmmakers networking event)!

Thank you to Sarah at Peninsula Cinemas Warragul to being open and excited about the idea as much as we are!

We have also only 4 more days for our Earlybird Deadline remaining.

The cinema venue also means we can play DCPs as well as other formats on these dates.

Thank you to all the filmmakers who have submitted already! Amazing work.

Yesterday we went off on a Gippsland film exploration to ‘The Bundy’ in Bundalaguah!We were so impressed with the beaut...
25/06/2026

Yesterday we went off on a Gippsland film exploration to ‘The Bundy’ in Bundalaguah!

We were so impressed with the beautiful space, atmosphere and community of film lovers that gather there every fourth Wednesday of the month.

We were immediately made to feel welcome by the organisers and crowd gathered there. Thank you so much to everyone who we chatted with.

Last night they screened ‘Darla in Space’ a microbudget indie made in the USA. It is a delightful, funny, absurdist and slightly surreal film that we loved. It was absolutely our kind of weird. So a good pick for us to attend. Fans of The Lobster and Poor Things would get a kick out of it we think. As would anyone into David Lynch’s work.

Definitely will be back! And anyone in Gippsland should totally check it out one night.

We are open for submissions again via FilmFreeway! And wowee you lot are keen! We already have already had our first su...
28/04/2026

We are open for submissions again via FilmFreeway! And wowee you lot are keen! We already have already had our first submissions (plural) in April!

Earlybird is currently open (closes on the 13th September) which is our cheapest option for entry!

We hope to bring another amazing short film festival to regional Victoria in March 2027.

Our final award for the inaugural run of GIFF 2026 to be announced on social media is for Best International Short Film ...
20/03/2026

Our final award for the inaugural run of GIFF 2026 to be announced on social media is for Best International Short Film which goes to Mark Petrasso for 'The Screenwriter'!

We screened The Screenwriter in our opening session at West Gippsland Arts Centre session 1: Laugh until you cry and announced it on the night.

Congratulations once again to Mark and the team on their fabulous film! We hope to see more from you in the future!

Thank you also to everyone who attended our very first run of the festival!

Congratulations to Andy Layclark and team for Best Australian Short Film for GIFF 2026 for In The Trees!Circumstances me...
20/03/2026

Congratulations to Andy Layclark and team for Best Australian Short Film for GIFF 2026 for In The Trees!

Circumstances meant we did not get to present this award to Andy on the night.

Thank you for making such a beautiful film piece! And we hope to see more work from you in the future!

Much love your way!

We wish to offer massive congratulations to Josie Hess and Stephanie Sabrinskas who were awarded Best Gippsland Made Sho...
20/03/2026

We wish to offer massive congratulations to Josie Hess and Stephanie Sabrinskas who were awarded Best Gippsland Made Short Film for 2026 for their short documentary 'After The Smoke'!

It's an amazing and uplifting story told exceptionally well by the duo in short doco form!

We wish them all the success and hope to see more film work made by both of them in the future!

We would also like to again thank the Bendigo Community Bank Neerim District for providing support to our Noojee and Rok...
18/03/2026

We would also like to again thank the Bendigo Community Bank Neerim District for providing support to our Noojee and Rokeby sessions in the form of a small grant. For this we are grateful. Thank you to the Neerim District Progress Association for their support as well.

We also want to publicly clarify that we received no financial support from Baw Baw shire for the 2026 run of the film festival. However, the staff at West Gippsland Arts Centre were very helpful and supportive of our event and we would like to thank them as people, we appreciated everything that they do. Thank you to the WGAC staff!

We would like to congratulate Andrew Robards on taking home the award for Best Regionally Made Short Film for The Remain...
17/03/2026

We would like to congratulate Andrew Robards on taking home the award for Best Regionally Made Short Film for The Remains!

The Remains played on our opening night at the West Gippsland Arts Centre in our Dark Regions session.

The Remains is Andrew's first narrative work, made with a combination of 16mm film and digitally with each shot beautifully crafted with artistic intent and features some great naturalistic performances alongside an incredible neo-noir aesthetic.

We look forward to hopefully seeing more narrative work from Andrew in the future!

We would like to congratulate Abigail Hargrave on taking home the award for best documentary for Love Shack '99!All roun...
16/03/2026

We would like to congratulate Abigail Hargrave on taking home the award for best documentary for Love Shack '99!

All round we had an incredibly strong group of short documentaries in the festival this year (we cannot overstate that enough), but as a group we felt that Love Shack '99 had an emotional impact and resonance with us and our regional audience.

We hope to see Abigail to continue to make more heartfelt work about human connection and place.

The beautiful drama Lara screened at GIFF 2026 at the West Gippsland Arts Centre on our opening night! We were thrilled ...
16/03/2026

The beautiful drama Lara screened at GIFF 2026 at the West Gippsland Arts Centre on our opening night! We were thrilled that Leah and Natalia could attend and we got a chance to talk film 🎥 Big things in the future for this creative powerhouse of a team! 🖤💚

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