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Australian projects and filmmakers will enjoy success on the world stage following recent selection announcements for a variety of events.

The Annecy International Animation Festival, one of the most highly regarded animation festivals in the world, will screen three Australian shorts, one music video and episodes from two children’s TV series in competition. The shorts are Nullarbor, Aww Jeez and Collision; the music video is The Audreys ‘Sometimes the Stars’; and the episodes from TV series are Gasp! episode Fish Stick and Horace in Slow Motion episode The Belly Dance.

Two Australian documentaries will screen in competition and two projects will be pitched at the forum at Hot Docs. Held in Toronto, Canada, Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival. The documentaries in competition are Memoirs of a Plague and Something to Tell You. The projects selected for the forum are I Am a Girl and Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls.

Producers of four Australian television projects have been invited to present their projects at the prestigious INPUT conference, which this year will be held in Seoul, Korea. This unique event – held in a different country each year – encourages the development of public service television by screening and debating the most outstanding programs from around the world. The Australian programs are My Place episode 1968/SOFIA, Goa Hippy Tribe, Dirtgirlworld episode 52 and Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us.

One Australian project was selected to the public pitch competition at Content 360 at MIPTV to compete for a €12,000 development prize as well as global recognition. The project is a smartphone app for ‘Sexy Inc’ by producers Kylee Ingram and Malinda Wink. Over four days in Cannes, the world’s leading device makers, network operators and media professionals will connect, interact and strike deals that define the future of connected entertainment during transversal knowledge exchanges, matchmaking sessions, a start-up competition, experiential labs, fully immersive demos and showcases featuring the most recent industry innovations.

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