Australian Showcase (2019)

Our most important program. AIAF Wagga Wagga hosts a collection of the best new Australian animation. This is the first opportunity each year to see a comprehensive collection of new Australian films, many of them introduced by the filmmakers in attendance. A vital and popular program, there aren't many opportunities to see Australian animation on the big screen and each year AIAF probably shows more than any other event in the world. This is an opportunity to see what Australian animators are doing, how they're doing it and how the art form is traveling. After the screening, there is a chance to meet many of the animators, hear them talk about their films and ask them questions about their work.

Featured in AIAF2019
Program Type: Films
Content Rating: Mature (M)
Geenie Reenie 2
Andrew Onorato

Geenie Reenie and Dozen order some food. If only life were that simple - or understandable.



Australia
Runtime: 6:56
Year: 2019
The Collector
Tara Ainsworth

An enchanting drift through a floating galaxy of the imagination.



Australia
Runtime: 2:29
Year: 2018
184 Cups Of Tea
Lauren Hunter

A cup of tea might not solve every problem but it can act as a kind of punctuation for life's travails.



Australia
Runtime: 4:06
Year: 2018
Fight Club But With Tennis And No Fight
Sylvie Le Couteur

Drama descends upon two tennis-obsessed women as the tension moves from off the court and into the cafe.



Australia
Runtime: 3:03
Year: 2018
Still Alive
Dennis Tupicoff

Death sings to the God that moves him - but now he encounters something in the darkness.



Australia
Runtime: 5:54
Year: 2018
Sohrab And Rustum
Lee Whitmore

An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem.



Australia
Runtime: 13:31
Year: 2018
Match Point
Jennifer Tran

Table tennis as ONLY animation can conjure it.



Australia
Runtime: 1:22
Year: 2018
Mysterical Planet
Matt Bissett-Johnson

A hapless astronaut looks on as a dismembered tongue grows legs and begins to survey all around it.



Australia
Runtime: 1:57
Year: 2018
Robots In Paradise
Caroline Jiang

Two happy, gentle robots take some time out to visit a theme park and take in the sights.



Australia
Runtime: 5:13
Year: 2018
The Curb Rats of Brisbane City
Charlotte Bird-Weber

Everything is like a brinkmanship towards impending doom or a funny story - a frank look at the Brisbane underground.



Australia
Runtime: 3:30
Year: 2018
Hearsmart Tinnitus
Samuel Lewis

Alex the musician takes us through her experience with tinnitus - it's hard to turn off but it can be turned down.



Australia
Runtime: 2:36
Year: 2017
Birds Of A Feather
Bianca Nall

An unlikely buddy story brokered over plump fish and bad weather.



Australia
Runtime: 7:42
Year: 2018
The Colour Thief
Chris Ebeling, Matt Estela, Daniel Flood

A desperate battle to grab the most precious commodity from the clutches of those who would deprive others of it.



Australia
Runtime: 2:01
Year: 2018
Pinchpot
Greg Holfield

The passage of time - a story about things made out of lumps of clay.



Australia
Runtime: 4:20
Year: 2018
Lost And Found
Phil Hunt

A clumsy crochet dinosaur must unravel itself to save the love of its life.



Australia
Runtime: 7:38
Year: 2018