Harmony Film Festival winners!

A "comedy" about a young man in pursuit of his unknown father has won this year's HIFF's top award.

At a ceremony on Saturday October 24th at Chauvel Cinema in Sydney the judges presented the Best Film Award to Made in Japan by Ciro Altabas from Spain.

Relevé by Bastian Caspar, Sebastian Natto, and Denis Trümbach from Germany received the award for Most Original Concept and Orgesticulanismus an animation by Mathieu Labaye from Belgium won the Achievement Award.

The runner up was Bikini by Tine Thomasen from Denmark and the 2009 Audience Choice Award went to Armed by Justin Baldoni from USA.

First, second, and third place winners received trophies and cash prizes.

HIFF announces judging panel for 2009

Harmony International Short Film Festival announced today an all-star panel of judges that will be screening and rating the top entries. The judging panel includes Actress Allison Cratchley, Director/Producer Tim Wise, Actress Anita Hegh, Actor/Voiceover Talent Nick Tate and Writer/Producer Heather Phillips. Read more here...

Press Release

Sydney, Australia - Harmony International Short Film Festival Showcases Films about "Courage".

Download press release here

2009 Finalist Films!

We are pleased to announce our finalist line up for the 2009 edition of the HIFF which includes award-winning animation, drama, fiction and comedy. As always there were many inspiring films which unfortunately did not make it to the finals. A big thank you to all the very talented filmmakers from around the world who entered their films and congratulations to the following filmmakers who made it to the final eight:

1. John Pace: Diagnosis (Australia)
2. Justin Baldoni: Armed (USA)
3. Tim Duncan: Bottom Dollar (Australia)
4. Bastian Caspar, Sebastian Natto, and Denis Trümbach: Relevé (Germany)
5. Tine Thomasen: Bikini (Denmark)
6. Ben Claremont: Oh, the places you'll go! (Australia)
7. Mathieu Labaye: Orgesticulanismus (Belgium)
8. Ciro Altabas: Made in Japan (Spain)

Click on the images below or visit our gallery to learn more about the 2009 finalist films.

The opening and awards ceremony will be held on Saturday October 24th from 5.00pm to 7.00pm at Chauvel Cinema Corner of Oxford St & Oatley Rd, Paddington.

Tickets: $15.00 at the door

For more inforamtion on the program and the venue click here.

"Courage" is the theme for 2009!

“Courage is being scared to death….and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne

Calling all established and aspiring film-makers to saddle up for the 2009 Harmony Film Festival.

This year’s theme is “Courage”.  So if you haven’t been brave enough to enter the festival before, well, now is an appropriate time to “just do it”!

We chose courage as the theme for this year’s festival, because we need it.  We need courage to face up to the problems afflicting our world.  We need courage to fix those problems.  And we need your film to help inspire us to do that.

Films need to be short (10 minutes tops) and straightforward (no nudity, violence, sex scenes or bad language) but other than that we don’t have too many rules.  We welcome films of all genres, from film-makers of all ages and all abilities, from all over the world. 

For more information on how to enter visit our entries page and click here to download 2009 poster

Image: 'Greased pole climbing' during Indonesian Independence Day celebrations

Check our gallery to see all the photos of the 2008 opening and awards ceremony.