MIAF 2026

Category: Australian

  • Australian Student Showcase [2025]

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    Australian Student Showcase [2025]

    SOLD OUT This year we received an unprecedented number of Australian student animation submissions. That made putting this year’s Australian Student Showcase together even harder than it usually is but this is where we landed. We throw open a window on the next generation of Australian animators. The vibrancy and dynamism of their work pours…

  • One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz [IAD 2024]

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    One Of A Kind: Tribute To Antoinette Starkiewicz [IAD 2024]

    Extended edition for International Animation Day 2024 Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult. TICKETSSOLD OUT Join us for a newly expanded retrospective of Polish-Australian animator Antoinette Starkiewicz, following the success of our sold-out MIAF 2024 showcase.This edition features more…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Lucy Davidson [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Lucy Davidson [2024]

    In Conversation with Lucy Davidson Please not this session is rated: Unrestricted M (Mature) – Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult. TICKETSSold out!! Lucy Davidson is carving out a remarkable career in the world of animation. In 2020 Lucy graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Sander Joon [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Sander Joon [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: The Strange & Wonderful Worlds of Sander Joon Sander Joon is the quintessential new generation Estonian animator, taking the best of the richly unique animating culture and bringing a uniquely personal 21st century edge to his work. A graduate of the EKA Estonian Academy of Arts (MIAF’s ‘School of Focus’ this…

  • Best Of The Fest (18+) – REPEAT [2024]

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    Best Of The Fest (18+) – REPEAT [2024]

    This session is classified: Unclassified (18+), restricted to people 18 years and over. TICKETS It all comes down to this …The Best Of The Fest! The judges have deliberated, the audience votes have been added up and we’ve had a bit of a think about the best mix of the program winners to pull together…

  • Australian Student Showcase [2024]

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    Australian Student Showcase [2024]

    TICKETSSOLD OUT The state of Australian student animation is as vibrant and varied as it has ever been. A wonderful energy and ‘anything-goes’ optimism permeates so many of the films produced by the most recent Australian animation graduates – all the more remarkable considering so many of them had their studies impacted by the covid…

  • Australian Showcase – Official Opening [2024]

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    Australian Showcase – Official Opening [2024]

    TICKETSSOLD OUT From a record number of submissions comes this year’s snapshot of the independent Australian animation scene in all of its wildly eclectic diversity. In an environment starved of funding and confronted by the indifference of mainstream media incredible, original films are being made by a thriving community of creatives and this is the…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Costas Lambrou– Anatomy of the MIAF Opening Film “As Above, Do Not Know” “As Above, Do Not Know” has to be one of the most gloriously eccentric and mischievously unpredictable films we have ever opened an Australian Showcase with. The frame jumps around all over the place, a bizarre cast of characters…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Brick Maths– Animators, Don’t Try This At Home When Dr Emily Cook, a passionate and driven senior lecturer in STEM Education looked for new ways to teach core mathematic concepts to math-phobic students she veered off the path most travelled and turned to animation. Together with a small team of accomplished…

  • Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff [2024]

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    Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff [2024]

    TICKETS Meet The Filmmaker: Studio Showoff & The Making of “American Sikh” Studio Showoff is a dynamic Melbourne based animation house turning out boutique ad campaigns through to full TV series for children and adults alike. Recently they joined forces with an international team of creatives to make a special film about a singularly special…