Step into the future of screen culture at Showfest 2026, the Sunshine Coast’s premier screen conference and celebration of creativity. If you're a film maker, game developer, industry professional or bedroom auteur this is your chance to rub shoulders with the best of the best on the Sunshine Coast and beyond. Join us as we celebrate film over six days from October 20 - October 25. SHOWFEST 2026 PROGRAM
Showdown Shorts is the Sunshine Coast’s feel-good short-film showcase, where first-time and emerging filmmakers meet a buzzing crowd and real industry faces. Curated by the Sunshine Coast Screen Collective and a local panel of judges, the program champions original voices with a strong local footprint.
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Please join us for Showdown Shorts
Sunday 25 October
12-3pm
Event Cinemas Kawana
Our members are thinkers and doers, directors, editors, writers, producers, and valuable crew. We back stories that shape culture. From indie breakthroughs to bold new voices, the Sunshine Coast is a creative frontier, and we’re building the infrastructure to support it. This isn’t a side hustle. It’s a movement. The Sunshine Coast is stepping into its screen future, and our collective is how we’ll get there. We’re a home for film people who get it. Big ideas. Small crews. Work that matters. Screen culture is shifting and we’re first in the line up.
The Screen Collective are local industry professionals who are working to create the best of all possible worlds right here on the Sunny Coast. There are many very talented creatives living here who travel elsewhere to work. Why?
our home is perfectly suited for the screen industry. With amazing locations, our Nambour production hub and many highly trained professionals . Our important light impact industries of production and post production can generate a viable economic basis and help create a powerful centre for screen industry groups and individuals.
Whether you’re new to the industry or the coast and would like to connect with crew and hang out with some genuinely great people become a member for only $60 per year which includes.
• event access
• free drinks + pizza
• online community
• members directory
• industry support
• networking
Screen Collective acknowledges the Sunshine Coast Country, home of the Kabi Kabi peoples, the Traditional Custodians, whose lands and waters we all now share.
