A new film festival to be held in Mount Victoria in October has been awarded a $10,000 grant from council.
A Festival of the Moving Image will be held from October 8-17 run by Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains.
The program will feature a wide range of artist's short films, and will include screenings at Mount Vic Flicks vintage cinema, site specific installations, an open air cinema at historic Mount Victoria Manor, screenings in shop windows and projections onto the facades of buildings throughout the town.
Council's City of the Arts Trust grants were announced recently.
Other grant recipients were:
Bus Stop Films ($10,000);
Art curator Miriam Williamson for Underground ($9,850);
Michel Streich for In Case of Fire - poetry book project ($9,595);
Musician Peter Kennard for Of Place/In Place ($9,556);
Tamour Bloomfield for Big Family Circus Picnic ($9,410);
Yvette Hamilton for Space, Time, Light ($9,390);
Live at the Village for Mara! Big Band Young BM musicians project ($6,325);
Kelli Mar for Dark Side of the Blue - the board game ($5,000); and
Jonathon Hibbert for Mountain People ($2,000).
The grants are funded from the City of the Arts Trust, to which council contributes $50,000 annually from its operational budget.
It is designed to increase opportunities for the engagement of local artists and art workers as well as providing stimulus for local creativity.
It aims to encourage arts quality and innovation, strengthen the local arts sector and engage local communities and visitors in arts and cultural activities as both participants and audiences.