Another panel session announced for Saturday the 27th, entitled Sourcing crowds, chaired by Peter Castaldi. 

Want to get your film is Cinemas? 

We're running a session with the team from TUGG, the Austin based company that launched at SXSW last year that gives filmmakers the opportunity to organise and screen in selective cinemas around the states, and soon globally. 

Want to know more? This is how TUGG works...

Second film screening announced for microWAVE 2013.

ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY - Clip from Joe Swanberg on Vimeo.

The Australian premiere of Joe Swanberg's All the light in the sky, followed by a Q&A with the director.

Defrim Isai, Director Production Investment at ScreenWest, will be a guest of the conference. 

Some of you may know of ScreenWest's amazing initiative 3 to 1 , an incentivised crowdfunding digital initiative. 3 to 1 provides 3:1 funding for Western Australian digital content creators, media producers and production companies.

First event announced for microWAVE 2013.

We're pleased to offer a special screening of For Lovers Only, followed by a in-conversation (via Skype) with co-creator and co-star Mark Polish. 

I've been a fan of the Polish brothers ever since their first film, Twin Falls Idaho. 

The brothers are renown for their independent spirit, and are also co-authors of the book The declaration of Independent Filmmaking'.

The past decade has seen a rise in the number of ultra low budget features being made, due in no small part to the democratisation of moving image technologies. Filmmakers inspired by the so called credit card features of Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), Spike Lee (She’s gotta have it), Kevin Smith (Clerks) and Shane Carruth (Primer) have taken a DIY approach to all aspects of the filmmaking process and in the process are creating new models of production, finance and distribution.

This new generation of filmmakers — Dunham, Swanberg, Bujalksi, Byington, the Duplass brothers — have embraced both technologies like DSLRs and low cost digital cinema cameras, combining it with this DIY methodologies to produce and distribute edgy and innovative works outside of the Hollywood model.

Concurrent to this, existing Hollywood filmmakers — Sebastian Gutierrez, Edward Burns and the Polish Brothers to name a few — are embracing lo-fi aesthetics, budgets and distribution methods to produce extraordinary films that exist parallel to their traditional Hollywood outputs.

Following the success of microWAVE 2011, the event has expanded to three days, the first day will be an academic conference. Microbudget filmmaking has fostered the momentum of creative, practice-led research in the moving image, from documentary, to drama and experimental screen work. Media arts and film-based academics, together with supervised higher-degree research students, are developing, producing and distributing microbudget screen works from within the academy — where the exploration of critical ideas and moving image forms — in the long form — is today facilitated by cutting edge digital resources and research funding in the creative arts.

The theme of the microWAVE academic conference is CHANGES. This theme is designed to resonate across the moving image making process, to reflect on the shifts in processes since the last microWAVE, most notably in the areas of funding (including crowd funding) and acquisition (the shift away from the DSLR to affordable digital cinema cameras), and to look at the reaches of such films, such as the new methodologies of distribution (distribution startups verses say self distribution).

These three Rs — resonate, reflect and reach — will be the sub themes of the conference. Papers presented at the academic conference can be submitted for peer review to be included in a special edition of new CMAI (Centre for Media Arts Innovation) journal published by UTS ePress, MediaObject.