Apply for the Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival Market
Adelaide Film Festival is seeking two teams of Australian filmmakers with a suitable feature film project (fiction or documentary) for presentation at the newly established JAFF Market, presented alongside the Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 3-5 December 2024.
The projects must be seeking SE Asian development and production partners and have sufficient Indonesian elements or adaptability, to make them suitable for co-production with Indonesia. The priority is to support projects that bring unique and authentic Australian/Indonesian narratives to the global stage.
This international market opportunity is the final stage of the AFF and Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival Exchange, which has been supported by the Australian Government. The initiative is an extension of the partnership between AFF and JAFF, and welcomes new collaborator mylab.
AFF will support two members of each film’s core team, which must include the producer, to attend the JAFF Market. This new Exchange initiative offers structured support from mylab, an established international development initiative with participants from across Asia. mylab has developed projects with great success, with many being selected by A-list international festivals including Cannes and Busan.
Mylab will assist in relationship building between the selected Australian filmmakers and the Indonesian participating filmmakers at JAFF and the newly established JAFF Market.
The Exchange aims to enhance connectivity between Australian and Indonesian filmmakers, promote greater cultural understanding between the two countries and encourage financial investment in the Indonesian and South Australian screen industries.
Between 2022 and 2024 the Exchange program has included AFF’s CEO & Creative Director Mat Kesting participating as a jury member for the Indonesian Screen Awards at JAFF 2022 and JAFF Program Director Alexander Matius appointed to the jury for the AFF Official Competition 2023. AFF 2023 also presented a Country Spotlight on Indonesia, screening six feature films from that country and hosting eight official guests. AFF then lead a delegation of six Australian filmmakers and a journalist to JAFF 2023.
“The AFF and Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival Exchange has been an incredibly satisfying experience, and I am confident that we have built relationships between our two country’s filmmaking communities that will see long-term, fruitful collaborations. This latest initiative is particularly exciting, helping to advance projects on their path to production. I’d like to thank the Federal Government and the Office for the Arts for their support of the initiative,” Mat Kesting said.
Ifa Isfansyah, Chairperson JAFF Market and Lorna Tee, Curator Mylab said:
"JAFF and mylab have previously worked with AFF with great pleasure and success in bringing Indonesian, Asian and Australian filmmakers and industry together. This year, with this brand-new collaboration between JAFF Market, mylab and AFF, where we welcome two film projects from Australia as part of the JAFF Future Market and connect the projects to the wider Indonesian and Asian industries, we are confident to see more fruitful connections and vibrant exchanges."