The Ignite Film Festival is a Christian

Christian film

The Christian film industry is an umbrella term for films containing a Christian -themed message or moral, produced by openly Christian filmmakers to a Christian audience....

 short film festival held annually in Sydney

Sydney

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, Australia

Australia

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. The major aims are to develop young Christian film makers and to encourage people to be creative about communicating the truths of the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

. Each film is no longer than five minutes and includes the theme for the year.

Ignite Film Festival themes

Each year, Ignite Film Festival has a theme of an item or action being incorporated in the entry films to ensure that they are unique.

• 2010 - Love
• 2009 - Animals
• 2008 - Rock or Stone
• 2007 - Light
• 2006 - Fire
• 2005 - H2O
• 2004 - Parable

Winners

• 2010 - Remember Me - Directed by David Cairns
• 2009 - Enmity - Directed by Matthew Carson-Drever
• 2008 - Atarashii Tabidachi
• 2007 - A Great Light
• 2006 - Arthur
• 2005 - Love Thy Neighbour - Directed by James Cogswell & Will Mitchell
• 2004 - The Great Feast - Directed by Tim Andrews

External links

• Official Web Site