Category: RRFF

2024 Romance Rules Film Festival

The official selections of the 2024 Romance Rules Film Festival were screened at the Black Box Theatre Theatre at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, on February 16, 2024.

What a fantastic night of diverse films!

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2024 Screening of the Romance Rules Film Festival

Program

Official selections

  1. Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
  2. For a Moment, dir Coco Tolentino (United States)
  3. A Rose in the Mud, dir Kailey McComas (United States)
  4. Dear Heartbreak, dir Ffion Pritchard (United Kingdom)
  5. TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)
  6. Bud, dir Jamie Martinez (United States)
  7. Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)
  8. The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)

Featured film (non-competition)

  1. Greek Philosophia And Chickens, dir Aimiende Negbenebor Sela (United States)

Nominees and award winners

Audience Favourite Award Winner

Winner:

TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)

Equal second:

  • The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)
  • Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)
  • Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)

Best Cinematography

Winner:

Brendan Williams – Slow Dating

Finalists:

  • Ryan Chernin – Bud
  • Mariam Salahvarzi – For a Moment

Best Actress

Winner:

Julie Collis – Slow Dating

Finalist:

Janina Picard – Bud

Best song/music/soundtrack/score

Winner:

Michael Lira – Slow Dating

Finalist:

Noah Berry – The Holidaze of Noelle Snow

2024 Romance Rules Film Festival – Official Selections & Tickets

Join us for the 2024 screening of the Romance Rules Film Festival. We have a great line-up of short films from around the world all about romance – the good, the bad and the ugly!

When: February 16, 2024 @ 7.30 pm
Venue: Black Box Theatre, Western Plains Cultural Centre,
76 Wingewarra Street, Dubbo, New South Wales, 2830
BYO: Drinks & snacks
Some films include adult themes, sexual references and occasional coarse language

Tickets: $12 each (including GST) online and at the door

Featured film (non-competition)
“Greek Philosophia And Chickens”

We are so excited to present the award winning short Greek Philosophia And Chickens, written by Despina Moraitu Politzi, directed by Aimiende Negbenebor Sela and starring Germaine Gaudet (How to Successfully Fail in Hollywood, River of Ghosts), Brian D Cohen (Nash Bridges, The Rookie), Lukas Hassel (Blacklist, Slapface, Limitless) and Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Gigli, Tango Shalom).

Part drama, part comedy with a hint of romance, Greek Philosophia and Chickens follows a sixty-something best-selling romance author who, feeling invisible as woman, hires an assassin to take her out. An encounter with chef/restaurant owner, Niko, and his vivacious waitress mother, Katina, from whom she learns a Greek philosophy/saying that really gets her thinking maybe…?

Official Selections

Beta Days, dir Dan Walls (Australia)

A Rose in the Mud, dir Kailey McComas (United States)

Bud, dir Jamie Martinez (United States)

For a Moment, dir Coco Tolentino (United States)

Dear Heartbreak, dir Ffion Pritchard (United Kingdom)

The Holidaze of Noelle Snow, dir Courtney Anne McLaren (United States)

Slow Dating, dir Adam Szudrich (Australia)

TutuTango, dir Dorothee Elfring, Michael Finbar Sheehan (United States)

All official selections will be eligible to be voted as “Audience Favourite”.

Finalists

Category winners will be announced at the end of the screening.

Best Cinematography

  • Brendan Williams – Slow Dating
  • Ryan Chernin – Bud
  • Mariam Salahvarzi – For a Moment

Best Actress

  • Julie Collis – Slow Dating
  • Janina Picard – Bud

Finalists best song/music/soundtrack/score

  • Noah Berry – The Holidaze of Noelle Snow
  • Michael Lira – Slow Dating

Romance Rules Film Festival is back for 2024

We’ve had a break but Romance Rules Film Festival is back and open for entries!

All genre’s are welcome, as are non-English films (as long as there are English subtitles). Films should be 10 minutes and under.

A number of selected films will be part of our live screening in February, 2024. Early deadline ends November 2023.

Enter on FilmFreeway.

Romance Rules Film Festival: Monthly results, April 2021/22

  • At The Chateau – The Bachelor
  • Valentine’s Day – back in my day
  • Heartbreak
  • Fox & Penguin
  • Occurrences of Questionable Significance
  • Pure Sweetness
  • Proverbial Luck
  • Trust
  • Bollywood Dreams

Romance Rules Film Festival celebrates all things romance – the good, the bad and the ugly! To find out more or to enter your film, see:

Romance Rules Film Festival

April results – official selections & finalists

Romance Rules Film Festival: Monthly results, March 2021/22

  • Stuck
  • Bereaved
  • Ruth & Nick: A Confectionery Tale
  • Cortesía de la casa
  • I could not love you enough
  • Guardians
  • If Anyone Asks…
  • Christian In The Closet
  • Summer
  • I Could Uke All Week With You
  • Hugh and The Statue
  • Tebori
  • Sleepless
  • Love in the Time of Corona
  • Music for 2 Pianos and Tape Recorder

Romance Rules Film Festival celebrates all things romance – the good, the bad and the ugly! To find out more or to enter your film, see:

Romance Rules Film Festival

Romance Rules Film Festival 2020 – official selections

Romance Rules Film Festival

Part 1

Stood Up – Cjay Boisclair (Canada, 2019)

Kandy – Dubbo Filmmakers (Dubbo, 2014)

A Violent Noise – Natalie MacMahon (Germany, 2019)

Beat – Pascale Potvin (Canada, 2017)

Space – Erifili Davis & Kellie Jenner (Dubbo, 2017)

Hungry Millennials – Edward Fearon (Australia, 2019)

Petrichor – Cameron Moon (UK, 2019)

Intermission

Part 2

Village Cafe – Alina Gerasimova (USA, 2019)

Turn It Around – Ingeborg Putter (Netherlands, 2017)

100% Girl – Chen Liangyu (Taiwan, 2019)

Backbeat – Martin Blank (USA, 2019)

Slides – Andres Padilla (USA, 2018)

Connection – Erifili Davis (Dubbo, 2018)

Maria – Robert Burns

Lit – Thia Schuessler (USA, 2019)

Audience Choice Award Winners

Congratulations to the teams behind the short films Petrichor and Stood Up, joint winners of our Romance Rules Film Festival Audience Choice award.

A big thank you to all the other filmmakers who contributed to a wonderful night of film.