Established in 1954, Sydney Film Festival is a major cultural event on the city's social calendar and one of the world's longest running film festivals. Our festival patrons include Cate Blanchett (pictured right with SFF Executive Director Clare Stewart at the 2007 Opening Night Gala), Sam Neill, Gillian Armstrong, Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann, Dr. George Miller, Phillip Noyce and Hugo Weaving, among the many whose careers have been launched at SFF screenings. We have been extending our reach to audiences in regional centres with the Travelling Film Festival since 1974, and from 2008, the 55th festival, we became Australia's only film festival to have a FIAPF-accredited Official Competition, with 12 films from around the world selected to compete for a cash prize of $60,000.

"I'm a creation of the Sydney Film Festival and I think it's the best festival in the world."
Jane Campion (Director, The Piano, Portrait of a Lady, In the Cut)

"Imagine how undernourished the cinema culture of our country would be without the Sydney Film Festival."
Dr. George Miller (Producer/Director: Mad Max, Babe, Happy Feet)

The 56th Sydney Film Festival will begin on 3 June 2009. Check the website for more details www.sydneyfilmfestival.org

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