ScreenACT: The ACT Office of Film, Television and Digital Media

short::seasons is a non- competitive Canberran film/video festival held twice a year. The festival began in 2001. It was set up by local filmmakers who saw the need for a local film festival. The festival was initially created by Josh Garrett, but he got headhunted for a job interstate before he was able to run an event. It fell to Marisa Martin with Matthew Fallon who ran the festival together until 2006, Marisa ran it on her own in 2007 with assistance from Belinda Barancewicz with Liam Downing & James Chapman. Liam Downing took over the festival in 2008 and then passed the festival on to the ACT Filmmaker’s Network in 2009. The event did not run in 2010 or 2011, but has been brought back by ScreenACT as an important showcase of exclusively Canberran content.

The growth of short::seasons has been extraordinary – from a screening to 100 over two nights on the Garema Place screen, to 515 in one session at the National Museum of Australia in 2005. From that first screening in 2001, the quality of the films has improved dramatically and we get comments noting as much from regular short::seasons attendees.

Below you can see the previous events short::seasons has run, as well as what was screened.

short::seasons also used to run a Project Film initiative, where a selected filmmaker was given a grant to make a film for the festival specifically. For information on previous recipients of this funding, see our Project Films Page.

	short::seasons winter'007 Friday 3rd August 2007 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons autumn'007 Friday 20th April, 2007 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons winter'006 Friday 21st July 2006 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons summer'006 Friday 24th February 2006 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons spring'005 Friday 9th September 2005 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons summer'005 Friday 25th February 2005 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::seasons winter'004 Saturday 7 August 2004 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::autumn'004 Friday 12 March 2004 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::spring'003 Friday 5 September 2003 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::autumn'003 Friday 14 March 2003 National Museum of Australia Program: Front, Inside, Back
	short::spring'001 5 & 6 October 2001 Garema Place, Civic Program: Front, Inside, Back