POP International Film Festival

28/06/2024

Great festival to make films for.

🎬 2 weeks left to get your entries in for the Focus on Ability Short Film Festival! 🌟 Plenty of time to create an inspiring film and showcase your talent! 💥 With over $100,000 in cash and prizes, the opportunities are incredible! 🎉 Don't miss out on your chance to shine! Lights, camera, action! 🎥💫

Questions? [email protected]
To submit head to https://focusonability.com/

19/06/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Sue Rosenwax

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

05/06/2024

I'm going to open a sensitive topic: AI generated works/art/films, and specifically, not just making them, but then submitting them to festivals as the prompter's artworks.

As someone who runs a film festival, I have been asked multiple times to add a category for AI-generated art, and have not done so. Our stance is that anything AI-generated is disqualified from awards consideration, where we will recognise the human-created elements only.
People have also said many things to me, like, "What's the difference between a director working with actors and someone prompting for art from AI?"
I think that's a worthy question to answer. Directors are a creative force through the entire pre, production, and post process, work as a team with actors, crew, and every single element of the process and create everything together and new art is created.
Prompters write a lot of text and wait for a result to be made, then iterate that text, which again goes to the machine to make the work for them.
I'll explain where there IS a connection between someone being a client of AI and sprouting text prompts to get art made for them.
The client would essentially be the executive producer.
In THAT degree.. no executive producer presents themselves as the artist of a film, or claims the artist's works as their own, even if they are commissioning, funding, or having work created for them, which they plan to on-sell, then goes to seek formal recognition as if they created it all themselves.
As a client of AI software, using it for pre-vis makes sense, bouncing ideas, quick poster mock ups early in production phase before official one are made, even for personal fun, sure, and I can understand VFX artists utilising it to shortcut long processes.
For fully generated AI vision, sound, music, that artwork boils down to a machine crafting plagiarised art based on its training of human created content, to create something that according to recent legal cases, cannot actually be copyrighted as new.

03/06/2024

🎬 Join Us in Celebrating Passionate Filmmaking! 🎬

We are thrilled to announce the People of Passion International Film Festival, a platform dedicated to showcasing the work of talented filmmakers from around the world who pour their hearts and souls into their craft is expanding to add a second session to be able to show more films!.

But we need your support to make this vision a reality!

By donating to our campaign, you're not just helping to fund a festival—you're supporting the dreams of countless passionate artists who have powerful stories to share. Your contribution will go directly towards creating an unforgettable event that celebrates creativity, diversity, and the art of filmmaking.

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Visit our donation page: Support People of Passion International Film Festival
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Every donation, big or small, brings us one step closer to showcasing the incredible talent that deserves to be seen and celebrated.

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Thank you for being a part of this journey. Together, we can create something truly special. 🎥❤️

28/05/2024

We have taken the plunge to bring you more films, more seats and an after party to really bring Independent films to the public! Plus with more networking opportunities It's a great night out and international film makers want to meet you all!. Take the plunge an plan to be there!
https://www.stickytickets.com.au/fstrx/pop_international_film_festival.aspx

25/05/2024

Announcing Best musical short film as a new category!
*picture for interest and inspiration!

19/05/2024

Jannah Dryden

Our film CHESTERS was a semi finalist for Best Comedy and we are so thrilled to have had our inclusive short film screened at the event. The communication was brilliant, just wish we could have been there for the event. Thanks so much! We can't wait to submit our next one!!!!

19/05/2024

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Submissions are now open!

18/05/2024

Love this photo with Sue Rosenwax !

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Aloha!

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Thank you Michael and Meredith for all your work through the year and on the night. I appreciate you.

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

This was Lisa's first year attending and I loved seeing her reactions to the first nations films we screened!

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Thanks for signing the teddy1
Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Congratulations to Claude and Mandy on your recent engagement!
Thank you for your repeat patronage of the festival!

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

18/05/2024

Team - Fair short film

Photographer Sophie
Edit by Leanne Campbell

13/05/2024

Photographer Sophie