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Filmfest Limited (t/a Melbourne International Film Festival) is Australia s oldest festival and most significant screen event. MIFF delivers a diverse, expansive and exceptional international film program that celebrates Australian and world cinema, maintaining and enhancing MIFF s reputation as Australia s leading film festival and the largest event presentation of Australian cinema in the world. The annual 18day program brings Melbourne audiences together to be among the first to see the best films of the year highly anticipated festival blockbusters alongside an eclectic, extraordinary experience of cinematic culture and perspectives from all over the world. The Bright Horizons Competition and Award was established in 2022 as an international film prize to celebrate and attract the best films from breakthrough filmmakers internationally. Supported by the Victorian Government through VicScreen, the winning film receives a $140,000 prize one of the most substantial film prizes in the world. MIFF 37°South Market brings the global screen financing marketplace to Melbourne during the annual festival and is a critical platform for local screen producers and creatives to connect with international screen content financiers and decision makers. More broadly, MIFF Industry programs include the Accelerator Lab for emerging directors and MIFF Premiere Fund an investment fund for new Australian quality narrative films and documentary features that premiere at MIFF. MIFF also supports emerging arts and culture writers through its annual Critics Campus program and takes the film festival experience to regional Victoria through the MIFF Regional program. MIFF s vision for the future builds on the festival s role at the centre of Melbourne s cultural life and its success in generating both social and economic capital for Melbourne and Victoria. MIFF will continue to innovate and build on its decades of achievements to ensure that it continues to be Australia s largest and most significant film festival in terms of international profile, audience size and the quality and breadth of its festival and industry programs.