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Creative risk-taking: strategies and storytelling Monday 15 October, 6pm. RMIT University Following a free public screening of Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017), Adjunct Professors Sophie Cunningham and Sue Maslin lead a conversation about storytelling as a collaborative process. This … Continue reading →

  The AFI Research Collection, in partnership with the School of Media and Communication, and the Screen and Sound Cultures Research Group at RMIT University, is pleased to announce the 2019 AFIRC Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will provide a stipend … Continue reading →

The 2018 AFIRC Research Fellowship has been awarded to Mark Ryan and Stuart Richards. Mark Ryan’s project titled, Digging up the history of Australian horror cinema: delineating the interwoven strands of horror, transnational-horror, Ozploitation and Australian Gothic movies from the … Continue reading →

The AFI Research Collection, in partnership with the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, is pleased to announce the 2018 AFIRC Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will provide a stipend of up to $5000 (AUD). ABOUT THE AFIRC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP … Continue reading →

The AFI Research Collection is closed on Friday September 29th. The library will re-open on Monday October 2nd. The AFI Research Collection website will not be operation on Friday September 29th and during parts of Saturday September 30th and Sunday … Continue reading →

Re-inventing Film Writing: Why the Coming of Sound matters to the Development of Film Reviewing Video link to Professor O’Regan’s presentation The advent of the sound cinema transformed the relation between the cinema and film writing. In the silent period … Continue reading →

GARTH DAVIS (director of ‘Lion’, ‘Top of the Lake’) in conversation with ROWAN WOODS (director of ‘The Boys’, ‘Little Fish’, ‘The Kettering Incident’, ‘Rake’) – May 30, 2017 Presented by The Australian Directors’ Guild in association with RMIT University’s School … Continue reading →

Due to renovations the AFI Research Collection will be closed on Wednesday 31st of May 2017. Apologies for any inconvenience  

CLARE STEWART, from the British Film Institute, in conversation with Lisa French at RMIT University on 21 November 2016. Clare Stewart, Head of Festivals for the BFI (British Film Institute) draws on her own experience and approach as Festival Director … Continue reading →