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Who Are We?
AFCA is a professional association for film critics, film reviewers and film journalists who work regularly in the media, and provide informed discussion, analysis, and comment about Australian and world cinema. We aim to promote excellence and expertise in film criticism. We support mainstream, independent and Australian cinema, and seek to foster an appreciation of significant or challenging films that may have been neglected. AFCA is an affiliated national section member of FIPRESCI, the international association of film critics and journalists.
We encourage formal and informal dialogue between film-makers, fellow critics and reviewers, distributors, exhibitors, film-goers, and other members of the film industry.
Under FIPRESCI criteria, membership is available to film critics or journalists contributing on a regular basis to media (print, radio, television, or online). All members of AFCA receive an annual membership card that allows them the opportunity to see films at participating cinemas that they are otherwise unable to see at media previews. Please click here for information on how to join AFCA.
What Do We Do?
AFCA hosts and co-hosts events in support of the Australian film industry and international film culture. From 1996, we hosted, in partnership with the Melbourne International Film Festival, Ivan Hutchinson's Melbourne (formerly the Ivan Hutchinson Memorial Lecture) for many years, which became a featured highlight of the Conversations In Film program. The aim of the lecture is to explore contemporary themes and issues in cinema and film criticism.
More recently, AFCA has moved to a new partnership with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, presenting joint screenings and panel discussions as part of the Australian Perspectives series.
Since our inception, we have developed relationships with the Australian Film Institute, the annual Writers' Festival, the National Screenwriter's Conference, Popcorn Taxi, and been sponsors of film festival events.
In 2008, the inaugural AFCA Film Awards were announced, with results announced on our News page.
How We Can Help
Our members are available to run Q&A sessions with film-makers and industry identities, host panel discussions and forums, provide speakers on film-related issues, participate in film-based discussions, host fundraisers and film evenings.