Herberton Pocket Films

19/02/2025

I'm off to school! Next month I'm doing an industry certificate in mobile content creation with the AFTRS.

Can't wait to come back and share what I learn with everyone!

AUSTRALIAN FILM TELEVISION AND RADIO SCHOOL

https://www.aftrs.edu.au/

AFTRS is the national screen and broadcast school – the only Australian education institution to consistently make The Hollywood Reporter‘s prestigious annual list of the top film schools in the world. We believe that a country is shaped by its stories. In an increasingly complex world, Australians have never needed good stories more, to understand who we are and who we can be. As the national screen and broadcast school, AFTRS trains the talent that creates these stories.

Australia’s premier screen arts and broadcast school

23/01/2025

Matt Golding

08/11/2024

We would have terrorised the community a lot less back then if we had been glued to our phones

06/11/2024

And this is why we run a film festival every year asking everyone to share their stories of how life happens for them on the Tablelands.

What’s your story?

ABC chair Kim Williams says investment and regulation are needed to fund the production of Australian stories, as he calls for the broadcaster to be "aggressively, consciously ambitious" in its programming.

19/10/2024

Cap'n Tom at the controls, and movies underway. A record number of entries, a great spread of film styles and stories. If you missed the show you can still catch them up once we post them up to the website. https://herbertonpocketfilms.org.au/

19/10/2024

The crowd rolled in at 6.30, with plenty of movie snacks on offer. Eat up quick, the show's about to start!

19/10/2024

Pocket Films went off like a rocket last night at Lynn's Gallery Cafe. Back room all set up for the crowd and Lynn's wall of fame.

17/10/2024

I've been thinking a lot about buying a drone for filming aerial shots lately, but I never imagined you could get an image like this...

A giraffe inspecting a drone

14/10/2024

The Pocket Film Festival is happening this Friday night! The movie-making workshops that RADF sponsored for us in 2024 have really paid off - there are a record number of films entered in this year's festival.

Alien donut invasions, two wheeled adventures, the secret life of household appliances, Wild Thing, boxing clever, and a small boy takes a giant leap. Just some of the stories of life on the Atherton Tablelands that will come to life on the screen.

This year we are showing the entries in Lynn's Gallery Coffee Shop across the road from the Shire Hall, and Lynn is cooking up a storm of treats for lucky movie goers. A coffee cup sized serve of bikkies, sweet or savoury, $5 each.

Doors open at 6.30pm, screening starts at 7.00.

Limited seats available, don't be late!

29/09/2024

05/05/2024

Dates for 2024 Pocket Film Workshops at Herberton Hall:

15 -16th June

7-8 September

Cost: $10 for the whole weekend