Get ready for a cinematic celebration like no other! 💥
At the 2022, Port Shorts Film Festival, our long-time festival ambassadors, actor Stephen Curry and producer Matt Hearn, were joined on the judging panel by Dhalinybuy actor Rarriwuy Hick, marking a new chapter in the festival’s history. 🔥
The collaboration of this dynamic trio is now locked in, and they’re poised to bring their combined expertise and passion to the 2023 festival.
October 13 & 14 – Rex Smeal Park – see you there! 🎬
Given the present uncertainty surrounding COVID, the Port Shorts Crew have made the difficult decision to cancel the outdoor screening component of this year’s festival, which was scheduled to run Friday 15th & Saturday 16th October in Rex Smeal Park, Port Douglas.
Our focus will now be on the delivery of a Virtual Event. We’ll be bringing you the best short films from our own backyard and around the world. Screened to an even wider audience, offered to everyone, free of charge, everywhere!
Our Virtual Event (15th-23rd October) will be a great way to stay engaged with cinema from around the globe, and just by tuning in, you’ll be helping to support filmmakers and enable Port Shorts to continue into future years.
We thank you for being a loyal Port Shorts fan, and big love to you all for your continued support.
Stay safe & see you at the Virtual Festival!
Port Shorts Crew x
We’ve recycled previous years event posters, you can download a program from our website, at Port Shorts 2018 we’re striving to do the best for our planet and bring you a single use plastic free festival.
Come up to our bar and we’ll serve you wine in a recyclable can, with a Vegware cup to drink from – or bring your own drinking vessel. All the food suppliers on site will serve you food in compostable packaging – no plastic!
Thirsty for water? We won’t sell you a bottle of water – come up to the water station and refill your own bottle or use one of our Vegware cups.
What is Vegware? Vegware looks like plastic or polystyrene but is made from sugarcane waste after it has been pressed for juice, or from corn starch – so is commercially compostable. But we didn’t just order these without a bit of research – the “commercially” bit of commercially compostable made us pause – that doesn’t sound like I can just put it into the compost bin at the bottom of the garden – so we did a little digging.
Card and paper based Vegware can be composted at home, the starch based Vegware (like our cups) need to go to commercial food waste recycling. If you throw it into landfill, it’s as bad as plastic.
Well we didn’t want Vegware if we couldn’t dispose of it properly, so we kept digging. And you know what we found? A commercial composting facility right here – Suez Cairns Recovery Centre, which processes the Douglas Shire’s waste.
They separate the non-organic materials from mixed solid waste and compost the remaining organic material through drum composting and maturation.
Through processing of the organic food and garden material in accordance with appropriate Australian Standards, the facility produces high-quality compost which is sold to local horticultural enterprises, such as sugarcane producers.
So welcome to Port Shorts 2018 – fantastic films and a greener festival! And feel free to bring your own cup along with your blanket!
