{"id":472335,"date":"2026-02-11T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472335\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:14:10","slug":"miff-afl-and-vicscreens-footy-shorts-back-for-a-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472335\/","title":{"rendered":"MIFF, AFL and VicScreen&#8217;s Footy Shorts back for a second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), AFL, and VicScreen have teamed up again for a second round of Footy Shorts, with production budgets increased this year to $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>The call out is for short documentaries exploring how Australian Rules Football unites and shapes Australian life including through players, fans, families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>The four Footy Shorts films will have a gala world premiere screening at MIFF this August, after which they will be available to view digitally across all AFL platforms, including AFL.com.au and the AFL app.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to funding, the projects selected to go into production will have access to the AFL\u2019s archive and Victorian-based AFL clubs, and professional development from industry mentors. Selected teams will have around four weeks more production time this year compared to last year. <\/p>\n<p>More than 30,000 people viewed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1422432\/footy-shorts-watch-all-five-melbourne-international-film-festival-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inaugural Footy Shorts films<\/a> across in-cinema screenings at MIFF, the AFL\u2019s Macca\u2019s Grand Final Footy Fest at Yarra Park and Federation Square during Grand Final week, other film festivals, and across MIFF and AFL\u2019s online channels. <\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s films included Cardona and Paige Cardona\u2019s\u00a0Breaking The Line, Kynan Clarke and Isabel Dilena\u2019s Bush Boots, Ramas McRae and Adam Bigum\u2019s\u00a0Eye of the Game, Danielle Baynes and Lachlan Baynes\u2019\u00a0House Divided,\u00a0and Alexandra Walton and Producers Theo McMahon and Fraser Pemberton\u2019s\u00a0No Prior Opportunity\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more Victorian than film and footy, and we are proud to partner with MIFF and the AFL to support Footy Shorts,\u201d said Victorian Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exciting talent development opportunity will support emerging filmmakers to upskill, gain practical experience, mentoring and screen their work at the nation\u2019s largest film festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To apply, teams must send through a creative treatment (approx. two pages) in response to the brief. <a href=\"https:\/\/miff.com.au\/footy-shorts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applications <\/a>close February 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), AFL, and VicScreen have teamed up again for a second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,240938,55979,55980,85,240939],"class_list":["post-472335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-footy-shorts","tag-melbourne-international-film-festival","tag-miff","tag-sports","tag-vicscreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}