This week dozens of students from Griffith Film School are in Outback Queensland for the Vision Splendid Film Festival.
Their mission? To pitch, write, shoot, edit and screen a short film… all in just one week.
Griffith Film School has partnered with the festival to establish the Vision Splendid Film Institute – a two-week program of film projects, workshops and masterclasses.
Griffith Film School lecturer Mr Ashley Burgess, who oversees special projects, is leading a delegation of more than fifty students from Griffith Film School, the Queensland Conservatorium and the Queensland College of Art (Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art).
For the first time, Griffith Film School has also invited students from the Beijing Film Academy in China and the Film and Television Institute of India.
Mr Burgess said the Vision Splendid Film Institute was designed to foster international collaborations and promote Queensland’s burgeoning film industry.
“When the weather is good, this is great cattle country,” he says.
“When the weather is bad, the film industry