Tropfest Film Festival

Month : April
Place : Sydney, Australia
Famous For : Film Festival
Attractions : On site voting for the people's choice awards

Tropfest is a film festival organized every year in Sydney, Australia & broadcasted live via satellite to venues in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. Holding recognition as world's largest short film festival, the Tropfest festival attracts support from big names in the film industry looking for emerging talent. The first Tropfest festival was held in 1993 ans was called the Tropicana Short Film Festival. In this very first edition, the films were projected onto a blank wall.

Major Attractions

The Tropfest film festival derived its name from the first year's location - the Tropicana Cafe in Darlinghurst, an inner-eastern suburb of Sydney. The sixteen finalists attend the Sydney event, also attended by VIPs from the film industry and an audience of about 100,000. The winners are selected by a panel of judges made up of well known Australian and international film directors, actors, screen writers and producers, in addition to the previous year's winner. The audience is able to vote on site for the people's choice awards. As well as a night of great short (the time limit is seven minutes)film, audiences enjoy a balmy out-door evening of music, comedy and unique entertainment. The unique feature of this event is that the every year, Tropfest has a theme of an item or action being incorporated in the entry films to ensure that they are unique and are made specifically for Tropfest. There is a benchmark which every film has to follow. Each film must be no longer than seven minutes, have never been shown publicly before and contain the Tropfest Signature Item (TSI).