Meet the team

OTF aims to celebrate new and independent filmmakers, their comic masterpieces and their excellent sense of humour. We are committed to encouraging and stimulating comedy film production worldwide, and to producing a festival which celebrates, entertains and inspires through comedy.

Our mission is to offer a refreshing challenge to people’s ideas of ‘what comedy is’, to give our audience a whole new experience of the way in which funny stories can be told through a the wide variety of filmmaking styles, genres from all around the world!

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Years of successful experience

27

We have been continuously running for over 27 years, a not so small feat, considering the trials and tribulations we have all experienced in that time. We started as a filmmaker-run festival, and are now gearing up for the second generation to take the reins. Our film festival can boast the largest traveling comedy film festival in Australia and the world.

We are run by a community from all varying backgrounds and our strength lies in our diversity. We are committed to the filmmakers that submit their art that make our festival fantastic and our patrons that support us year by year. New and old. So what are you waiting for. Get your butt down to a screening near you!

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Screenings
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Awards won
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Laughs had

Projects under VOCES

A world of Dark Comedy

A World of Dark Comedy creates a festival of morbid, mischievous and Machiavellian tales by filmmakers around the world.To depict the worst things that can happen in human interactions. It is the second best thing you can do under the cover of darkness.

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Remembering the 1946 Pilbara strike

Twentieth-century Aboriginal workers laboring for sheep and cattle stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region endured conditions comparable to slavery. In 1946, they walked off the job — and founded the modern land rights movement.

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Please make a contribution

OTF relies on the support of the community and dedication of its organisers and volunteers, without whom this festival would not be possible. Any kind of generous donation will be utilised to keep OTF running – from administration costs, travel costs for screening hosts and the ever-increasing film screening fees.

Via the Australian Cultural Fund we are able to offer you a secure ‘tax deductible’ donation status right here.

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