The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) has launched the 2012 DigiSPAA Digital Filmmaking Competition which allows filmmakers from Australia and New Zealand to enter.

The eighth annual competition, themed ‘uncovering new storytellers, telling new stories’ is a celebration and acknowledgement of independent digital filmmaking.
This year’s winner will receive a prize a pool of $15,000 cash and $20,000 worth of post-production, a guaranteed screening of the winning film on the Movie Extra channel, plus a return airfare and free registration to the prestigious CineMart International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

Important dates:

Applications close: 14 September 2012, 5pm

Final four finalists announced: October

Winner Announced: 12-15 November 2012 at the SPAA Conference, Central Pier, Docklands, Melbourne.