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30 April 2026

A new Australian feature film now in cinemas nationally was first hatched almost a decade ago at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) by two s...

13 February 2026

The queer Canadian hockey romance has dominated social media and cultural conversation this summer, but viewing figures tell a very different story about who's actually watchi...

25 November 2025

The next generation of Australian filmmakers will showcase their graduating works from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) from 2-22 December....

19 August 2025

An abundance of alumni talent from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music is currently on display in cinemas across Melbourne and the state at this year’s Melbourne Internat...

12 August 2025

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music has recently joined Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Academic Partner Program to enhance teaching and learning in the emerging field of real-...

6 August 2025

The Melbourne International Film Festival program can be overwhelming, so here’s a few tips to help you find your way through Australia’s premier film fortnight....

1 July 2025

Pride month is more than a time of recognition. It’s a call to action, and reminds us that while visibility is empowering, it can come at a cost, writes Andrew Blogg from VCA...

28 May 2025

A 100 per cent tariff on films and a streaming market saturated with overseas content threatens not only Australia’s film industry, but also our unique film culture, writes St...

11 April 2025

Award-winning feature documentary Left Write Hook, directed by Dr Shannon Owen, is now streaming on Netflix Australia....

9 April 2025

Each one-hour episode of Netflix’s Adolescence is realised in a single, unbroken take. No edits. No resets....

3 April 2025

Hit shows like Apple Cider Vinegar and Baby Reindeer may be pulling in big audiences, but for the creative teams behind them, they come with a risk....

4 February 2025

An innovative University of Melbourne multimedia project, which harnessed the latest visual effects technology to offer new insights into the ferocity of bushfires, was exhibi...

31 October 2024

The next generation of Australian filmmakers will showcase their graduating works from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) from 26 November to 10 December....

24 September 2024

David Balfour has been appointed as the new Head of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) within the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine A...

6 August 2024

A documentary feature film co-produced by Senior Lecturers in Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts, Dr Donna Lyon and Shannon Owen, will premiere at the 20...

1 May 2024

Cutting-edge virtual production technology that’s being used in Hollywood, is now available to students and industry practitioners at the University of Melbourne, with a...

10 April 2024

Students from the Victorian College of the Arts recently travelled to Shepparton to participate in a whirlwind movie-making experience with students from the Greater Shepparto...

9 April 2024

A project co-led by Faculty of Fine Arts and Music researcher Dr Donna Lyon has recently been awarded a Federal Government grant to assess the project’s outcomes....

14 March 2024

A new report co-authored by University of Melbourne Senior Lecturer Jo Briscoe has found that cultural problems and destructive work conditions are leading to creative opportu...

28 November 2023

The next generation of Australian filmmakers will showcase their graduating works from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) from 1 to 15 December....

4 August 2023

There’s no need to be overwhelmed by the movie schedule at the Melbourne International Film Festival with these hot tips from Kai Perrignon....

22 June 2023

Sammy J chats to Victorian College of the Arts screenwriting lecturer Phillippa Burne about the challenge of an Aussie adaptation of The Office....

19 June 2023

Twenty-two years after the original UK television series The Office was released, and 18 years after the highly successful US remake (2005-2013), Australia is getting its own...

24 April 2023

Lecturer in Producing at the VCA, Stephen Luby, met Father Bob Maguire as a young filmmaker in 1990. The words he spoke to him then still reverberate today....

20 December 2022

Students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne will take over Fed Square on New Year's Eve with...

24 November 2022

For the third time, films by graduating Film and Television students from the Victorian College of the Arts will feature on MIFF Play, the Australia-wide digital streaming pla...

27 September 2022

When you’re a screen producer, there’s always something to do – whether it’s honing scripts, keeping the budget on track or ensuring an on-set snack su...

27 September 2022

Impact Australia was launched this week at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was delighted to learn t...

12 September 2022

Mario Biancacci’s path to being an international film producer wasn’t exactly pre-ordained. But he’s made his way from a Bachelor of Science to a Robbie Will...

25 August 2022

Left Write Hook is a new documentary film focusing on a University of Melbourne-supported program helping adult survivors take back their power....

27 July 2022

Animation students are creating a short film using cutting-edge 3D technology, as part of a competition from gaming company Epic Games....

12 July 2022

After a decade working in relative obscurity, Australian-Macedonian writer-director and VCA grad Goran Stolevski has landed in the film industry in a big way. With thirteen fe...

28 June 2022

Impact Australia 3, the third iteration of the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator program, will be held in-person this year on the Victorian College of the Arts’ (V...

22 June 2022

Directed by VCA alum Ben Chessell, Sian Davies and Charlotte George, with cinematography by alum Katie Milwright, Surviving Summer has already been a Netflix hit since i...

15 February 2022

VCA filmmaker Sarah Marcuson is about to see her documentary, The Time It Takes, featured on the Melbourne International Film Festival's digital platform MIFF Play. The d...

15 February 2022

Almost 30 short films by some of Australia’s most exciting emerging filmmakers – the 2021 graduating class of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Tele...

9 February 2022

VCA graduate, Ari Wegner (Bachelor of Film & TV 2004), made history as the second woman ever nominated for Best Cinematography at the Oscars....

19 January 2022

Dr Donna Lyon is a film producer and senior lecturer in producing at VCA Film and Television. She talks about how research, University partnerships and the Tran...

29 November 2021

VCA Film and Television graduates, Sophie Somerville and Courtney Bombell have won the prestigious 2021 Dendy Live Action Short Award for their graduation film Peeps (2019) at...

20 September 2021

Short film lovers will be treated to more than 40 films by the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Television graduating class of 2020 in a special free-to-view onlin...

17 September 2021

Impact 2 was launched this week in Melbourne by award-winning filmmaking company Imagine Entertainment. The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music was delighted to learn that scr...

10 June 2021

Impact Australia 2, the follow-up to the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator program, will be held in-person this year on the Victorian College of the Arts’ (VCA) So...

8 June 2021

More than 40 graduating shorts films by Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Film and Television students will be showcased on MIFFPlay, the digital platform of the Melbourne I...

26 May 2021

Four Victorian College of the Arts alumni will participate in an accelerator program as part of the University of Melbourne's partnership with Australians In Film (AiF)....

18 May 2021

Rosalie Osman is a 2D animator with an impressive portfolio of web, film and television works, specialising in character animation. She creates short films based on early chil...

26 March 2021

Michael Bentham’s debut feature film Disclosure premiered at Palm Springs International Film Festival and Berlinale in early 2020. The film is screening at Cinema Nova...

8 January 2021

Determined to support equal access opportunities in the arts, The Portland House Foundation has awarded the inaugural Harry Hains Memorial Scholarship in Film & Television...

20 October 2020

Does listening to your favourite song give you goosebumps? Musical chills, or "frisson", are explored by VCA Film and Television alum Alex Wu in a new film entitled Frisson. C...

31 July 2020

Derrick took the plunge to move to Melbourne from South Australia to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) at the Victorian College of the Arts. Fortunately, he's "200% co...

29 July 2020

Six films by Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television alumni have been selected as part of a new MIFF Shorts retrospective focusing on connections....

2 July 2020

Sport and animation are not considered to go hand in hand, but Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) student Sophie Ash has blended her love of mogul skiing and fine art into one...

1 July 2020

The screenwriter may not be the first name to roll in the credits – but more often than not they're the backbone of any film and television project. We spoke to some wri...

24 June 2020

Paul Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) program at the Victorian College of the Arts. Here, he tells us about the course and what it involv...

22 May 2020

First-year Master of Film and Television students were tasked with creating a unique piece of content from home, and ... they hopped to it....

4 March 2020

Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television alumni will have the opportunity to work at the former home of Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles, thanks to a new partnersh...

12 December 2019

Award-winning filmmaker and television director Corrie Chen graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor Film and Television (Hons) in 2008, and a Master i...

26 November 2019

The Victorian College of the Arts film screening season takes place between Friday 6 and Sunday 15 December 2019 at The Capitol, Melbourne....

14 November 2019

Luke Devenish is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and lecturer who currently teaches Screenwriting at the Victorian College of the Arts. So how do all of those skills comb...

28 October 2019

Every VCA graduation film since 1966 is now stored in digital form. A new exhibition at the University of Melbourne showcases this treasure trove for the first time....

17 October 2019

Master of Production Design for Screen student Lauren Gould discusses her career-defining internships in film and television....

11 October 2019

Buoyancy is Australia's submission for Best International Feature at the 2020 Oscars. We talk to the director of this brutal and beautiful film....

17 September 2019

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) student Danni Zhang talks about her run-in with Mr. Feminism, and what excites her about a career in screenwriting....

6 September 2019

From teacher to filmmaker, Master of Film and Television (Documentary) graduate Charby Ibrahim is passionate about social justice. He talks about how he’s trying to push...

21 August 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

25 July 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

18 July 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

16 July 2019

He recently won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize during Critic’s Week at Cannes. Meet the Changzhou-based filmmaker and VCA Master of Film and Television graduate Qiu Yang...

27 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

20 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

13 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

6 June 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

31 May 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

24 May 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

16 May 2019

The VCA Digital Archive is a living audiovisual record of student films that date back to 1966. The articles in this series respond thematically to the depth and bre...

9 May 2019