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Top 18 Film festivals based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 81 film festivals headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 552 professional contacts across them, including 126 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers film festivals headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
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The 18 largest film festivals based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RISING returns in 2027.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MIFF has been continuously running since 1952, making it the leading film festival in Australia and one of the world’s oldest film festivals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is one of the longest-running film festivals in the world, screening narrative feature films, documentaries and short films over 12 days and nights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Melbourne's home of quality arthouse and upscale movies, filmmaker Q & As, film festivals, CineTrivia, curated repertory programming, The Room, Cinema Fiasco and the Cinema Nova…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) is South Australia’s premier screen event and one of Australia’s leading film festivals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anywhere is a globally unique festival of performance anywhere but a theatre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Byron Bay International Film Festival (BBFF) provides attendees with the opportunity to experience a truly distinctive Australian film festival in one of Australia's most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CinefestOZ 31 Aug - 8 Sept 2024 CinefestOZ delivers Australia’s Premier destination film festival, celebrating Australian Film and awarding Australia’s Greatest Film Prize of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A highlight of Melbourne's cultural and LGBTIQ community calendar the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is an annual event showcasing the best in LGBTIQ-themed features, shorts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For Revelation, films are a backdrop to a wider conversation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “There have been lesbian and gay film festivals in Sydney since 1978.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Presenting the best films and artwork from around the world, Melbourne’s annual Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) will challenge, touch and inspire audiences from all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sunday Films is a Sydney based film and content production company, run by Sunday Emerson Gullifer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us Arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cultivate the Chaos facilitates STUFFit Student Film Festival, an international film festival run by students for students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Very Short Film Festival (VSFF) is a short form national festival that celebrates Australian stories and diverse voices through the art of filmmaking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sydney Women's International Film Festival provides film award competitions across a range of categories - all with a focus on supporting female film-makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The International Chinese Film Festival (ICFF) is one of the largest and most distinguished Chinese cultural events held annually in Sydney and other major cities in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: film festivals. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names film festivals.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of film festivals, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name film festivals. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Film festivals based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 81 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among film festivals, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “film festivals”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names film festivals), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among film festivals, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 126 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names film festivals, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many film festivals are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 81 film festivals headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Rising Melbourne, headquartered in Cbd, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most film festivals?
Sydney leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (13) and Brisbane (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 126 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.