Naarm based Indigenous Film Festival Birrarangga is open for submissions. This year they're also accepting VR/XR & videogames. Free Early bird closes tonight with submissions open until October 22. Please share with any Indigenous devs who might be interested! filmfreeway.com/BirraranggaF...

Birrarangga Film Festival

The Birrarangga Film Festival (BFF) is Australia’s premier Indigenous-led film festival, established in 2019 to celebrate and elevate First Nations storytell...

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Asymptotes time! It's nice to return to Balam Balam Place a few months after Brunswick Underground Film Festival 💪 This time for videogames...

"Festival Programmers Roundtable" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with @jacksargeant.bsky.social former Melbourne Queer Film Festival Director Cerise Howard, former SXSW Sydney Screen team members Jordan Bastian Felix Hubble & BUFF Head of Programming @memoryendowment.bsky.social

"How Did You Get Started?" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with Causeway Film's Sleena Wilson, directors Kim Miles (Mel) + Gabriel Bath & Daniel Tune (Moviejuice, Adl) + JP Meldrum (Canada) + Haruki Ryles (Bri), Golden Age Programmer Ing Dieckmann (Syd) & BUFF fest director Felix Hubble

"How to Release Your Independent Film" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with Causeway Head of Development Sleena Wilson, Chris Swan of Madman Film Acquisitions & Sales, Everything Grows in Eden Director Jack Johnston and Static Vision co-founder & BUFF festival director Felix Hubble.

"BUFF Critics' Roundtable" at Brunswick Underground Film Fest with Armani Hollindale of Kinotopia, Đăng Tùng "Ringo" Bạch, @tansyg.bsky.social of @goingroguepod.bsky.social and @movingtargets.bsky.social moderated by @sameytram.bsky.social and @roughcutfilm.bsky.social co-founder Eliza Janssen

"Transgressive Cinema" with Ex Film Label Manager Leon O’Regan and Revelation Film Festival Artistic Director, academic, author & critic Jack Sargeant talking about the cinema of transgression, queer cinema, avant garde cinema, how what's shocking changes and defining what exactly transgression is?

"Film Clubs & Exhibition in Aus" @ Brunswick Underground Film Fest w Joseph Pallas & Ing Dieckmann (Pink Flamingo Cinema, Syd), Laurie Fletcher (Asian Cinema Collective, Mel) Daniel Tune & Shea Gallagher (Moviejuice, Adl) Bella B (Hitlist, Mel) & Kai Perrignon + Felix Hubble (BUFF / Static Vision)

This year Brunswick Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is complimenting their long weekend of screenings with an industry symposium of talks and panels from filmmakers including directors, writers and producers along with critics, film clubs and diy exhibitors and film festival programmers.

Powerhouse Games Curator @chloeappleby.bsky.social onstage at the Alt: Features section of Alt: Games introducing today's feature talk Billy Basso talking about his career and the development of Animal Well.

At Alt: Sessions for "Colour Matters: Creating Evocative Palettes for Indie Games" with @jessicashipard.bsky.social of @folly.studio

Over 3 weeks me & @dinopoke.bsky.social, as part of @serenade.games, have been teaching interactive fiction to writers with non-games backgrounds. Now we're hosting a showcase of the games created by our participants. 📅 Sat 28th March 🕕 3pm 📍 Arts & Cultural Exchange, Parramatta See you there!

We're at Arts & Cultural Exchange Parramatta for @noblesteedau.bsky.social Work In Progress Night. Supported by Screen NSW and Arts & Cultural Exchange.

Me & @dinopoke.bsky.social are visiting Canberra for Equip Canberra Games at @nfsaonline.bsky.social Very cool to see a games conference in Canberra!

After the panel we're back to @technicallygames.bsky.social lightning talks with Jay Wingate and "Trial by Firebase". Firebase is a cloud database, now owned by Google. Some of the pain points Jay ran into included support for multiple environments and serialisation

After a networking & snacks break at @technicallygames.bsky.social we're back with a panel "Lore Dumping for the Future of Games in Australia" with @thegooflord.bsky.social Maize from @sabbygallery.bsky.social & @thetinminions.bsky.social moderated by @inkmo.bsky.social #TGLightningTalks

After Louie's opening keynote it's time for the lightning talk section of @technicallygames.bsky.social ! @inkmo.bsky.social tells us we'll be hearing from a series of presenters in rapid succession advising us to get ready for info dumps. #TGLightningTalks

Clearly at least one level designer is on the team of @technicallygames.bsky.social #TGLightningTalks #guideThePlayer

Time for @free-play.bsky.social Parallels 2025!

Now it's time for the most glamorous part of @free-play.bsky.social #fashionOfFreeplay First some behind the scenes of @primaveraone.bsky.social 's locker photoshoot Photographer: @siobhan.creature.love Lighting: @ericaroyle.bsky.social Documentation: @jemztones.bsky.social

Final @free-play.bsky.social talk "Meet me at the edge of elsewhere" with Rusaila Bazlamit  #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Back for "Dead Melbourne Trifecta: Embracing commonality in independent practices" with @haraiva.bsky.social @mickey.ghoulish.com.au @unseconds.bsky.social talking about their projects Parasensor, Dawn Chorus & Putrid / Sharp #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social with "On Planting Virtual Flowers" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Rushed back from lunch to @free-play.bsky.social for Edge Case Love with @vidyarajan.bsky.social @quail.bsky.social Quinn Franks & Sam McGilp talking about their upcoming hybrid theatre work "Crisis Actor" happening later in August for Now Or Never #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next Hazel Mejia with "Augmented Grief: Why I Animate What’s Missing" Hazel is a 2d animator, multimedia artist & photographer with a focus on memory, time and nostalgia #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now @theboyofcheese.bsky.social with The Art of Demon-Making #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"Many Endings: Empty Finalities" with Tash aka Friendly Cosmonaut Tash is a programmer, developer and tutorial maker who has worked at studios local and international and also taught at RMIT's Masters of Animation Games & Interactivity (MAGI) program #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

The day 3 keynote is from Brooke Collard with "Resistance, resilience and adaptation" Brooke is Ballardong/Whadjuk Noongar film producer now based in Rubibi Brooke works across tv, film, web series, vr and games. #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now talks from local community groups about their activities and how you can help! First Kira from @sabbygallery.bsky.social is here to tell us about Sabby, what they do, their plans for the future and their push to become a co-op! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Last day of @free-play.bsky.social #angles25 begins with co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social introducing the final day's theme DEATH 💀 Mads reminds us that death doesn't have to mean endings, there's opportunities for rebirth and change which we'll explore today! #freeplay #freeplayangles