The newly established Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) recently announced all nominees for the inaugural Samsung AACTA Awards, which will be held at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney on January 31 2012.

**Update as at 30 November, 2011 - Australian Academy announces first Award recipient – Don McAlpine**

**BMW stiches up two-year deal with AACTAs**

**Samsung AACTA Awards Luncheon**

**Geoffrey Rush named Australian Of The Year**

**AACTA Ceremony - Winners announced**

**Pictures from the AACTA Awards and after-party**

Ten years of Cinema for Peace will be the theme of the Cinema for Peace Gala to be held on February 13, 2012. The grand event will take place in Berlin’s famous Gendarmenmarkt Concert Hall.

From Thursday December 15 2011 until Sunday March 25 2012 Ford Focus Moonlight Cinema will again transform Royal Botanic Gardens into the ultimate outdoor cinema experience, showcasing an extensive schedule of classic, cult and new release films.

…and now Conspiracy 365 is set to screen on their Family Movie Channel (FMC) from January 14, 2012. The $13m action series is the most expensive drama project ever produced for Pay TV in Australia.

Filmmakers are being encouraged to enter a milestone year for the world’s largest short film festival – the 20th annual Movie Extra Tropfest Australia. Entrants have the opportunity to screen their short films in front of a massive live audience across Australia as well as hundreds of thousands of viewers live exclusively on MOVIE EXTRA on Sunday February 19 2012.

**Update as at January 6, 2012**

One of the most unique film festivals in Australia, the third annual Warrambeen Film Festival, has announced that earlybird tickets are now on sale for the event on March 3, 2012. Held on a working sheep, crop and free range pig farm between Geelong and Ballarat in country Victoria, screens will be found in unique locations including the 1832 bluestone woolshed, an outdoor fruit orchard and old paddock creek bed.