FOCUS FORWARD SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED

Pros, Students, Procrastinators - You still have time to submit your 3-minute nonfiction film on innovation and win up to US$100,000 because Cinelan have just extended their deadline to October 7.With the Grand Prize Winner will be unveiled at Sundance 2013 and a total of US$200,000 in prize money to be awarded, it's the largest prize package ever offered for nonfiction shorts and it's FREE to enter! More information and FAQs about the competition can be found at www.focusforwardfilms.com/challenge.

2012 LAVAZZA ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 Lavazza Italian Film Festival - the biggest festival of Italian films outside Italy! Presented by Palace Cinemas, the festival will run from September 19 to October 9 at Palace Cinema Como, Palace Balwyn, Palace Brighton Bay, Palace Westgarth and Kino Cinemas.

With over 30 films, the lovingly selected programme will showcase the best Italian fare from recent international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rome and Venice. The festival will close in Melbourne with exclusive previews of Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love. Full schedule and ticketing info at www.italianfilmfestival.com.au. 

Book now to avoid disappointment!

TONY GOULD'S UNDER MILK WOOD

Experience Dylan Thomas’ dream world, UNDER MILK WOOD, in a heightened musical setting. The Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School presents Tony Gould’s work with acclaimed actor John Stanton as narrator, topping a bill featuring award winning soloists, choirs, ensembles, and dancers of VCASS.

Thanks to VCASS, we have four double passes to the concert this Friday 14 September 7:30 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. To win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au by 4pm Thursday 13 September with UNDER MILK WOOD in the subject line, your name and contact number in the body, and the answer to this question: Who starred alongside Richard Burton in the 1972 film adaptation of Under Milk Wood?

SHADOW DANCER

From Academy Award winning director James Marsh and starring Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough and Gillian Anderson, Shadow Dancer  follows single mother Collette McVeigh, a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an M15 officer, Mac, offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family.

For those that missed it at MIFF 2012, we have 40 double passes to a preview screening of Shadow Dancer, Tuesday 9 October, 6.30pm at Cinema Nova. For your chance to win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au by 5pm Friday 21 September with SHADOW DANCER in the subject and your name and contact number in the body.

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENTS: AFTER LIFE

After Life combines film, theatre and music to grapple a compelling question: what was the most defining moment of your life? As six lost souls gather in limbo, they are asked to decide on one memory to take into the afterlife. Thanks to our friends at Melbourne Festival, we’ve got ten doubles to the Fri 12 October 7:30pm performance of Michael van der Aa's masterwork at the Regent Theatre.

To win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au by 5pm Wednesday 19 September with AFTER LIFE in the subject, and your name and address in the body along with the answer to this question: What year was the Japanese film After Life (on which this production is based) made?

EPIC! 100 YEARS OF FILM & THE BIBLE

Running until 3 February 2013 at the Jewish Museum of Australia, EPIC! 100 years of film & the Bible explores the fascination that filmmakers from all over the world have had with the Bible. Enter the spectacular world of sex, scandal, violence, catastrophe, romance and heroism and explore a century of biblical blockbusters through rare vintage movie posters, books, scripts and film ephemera.

Thanks to the Jewish Museum of Australia, we have five in-season double passes to give away. To win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au by 5pm, Wednesday 17 September with EPIC in the subject and your name and address in the body, along with the answer to this question: Who directed the 1949 film, Samson and Delilah?

ARBITRAGE

Opening in cinemas September 27, Arbitrage is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty and high finance starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth. New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller is the portrait of success. But Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Just as he's about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected error ignites the suspicions of NYPD Detective Bryer.

We have 20 in-season double passes to give away to Arbitrage! For your chance to win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au by 5pm Friday 21 September with ARBITRAGE in the subject line and your name and address in the body.