The Setting Sun Film Festival is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the community festival.
On Thursday, May 11, the opening night will be held at the Sun Theatre where it all began, for a night of champagne, awards and hosting.
The festival will be running for one week until Sunday, May 21, followed by the beginning of the online portion of the festival on Friday, May 19- Friday, May 26.
This year the festival is showing over 200 independent films , running eight physical sessions over the course of the first week.
Event organiser Anna Bourozikas started the festival after she had just completed her Screenwriting studies at RMIT.
“I had been a judge in other festivals and I became aware we didn’t have one in this area, so I approached the Sun Theatre and that was the beginning of the journey,” she said.
“It was around the same time that council started the Festival City Funding Program, so everything seemed to align for me.”
In honour of the 10th anniversary , the festival has partnered with a group called Filmonik Kabaret to run a four day filmmaking lab.
“Filmmakers will be challenged to make a film in 72 hours from the Friday to the Monday, they will be meeting at Kindred Studios to make as many films as they can, they will then be shown on Monday night,” she said.
Ms Bourozikas has been running her festival solo for the last ten years and has hopes to continue the festival for many years to come.
“I take each year as it comes and just try to enjoy it with the rest of the community,” she said.
Details: settingsunshortfilmfestival.com.au/festival-programs-tickets
Jennifer Pittorino
