ACMI presents Summer School Holiday Program

ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) is the destination for young people, kids and families throughout December and January with a diverse range of creative workshops, interactive activities and film screenings throughout summer. 

In a brand new initiative as part of the INTERMIX program, ACMI will launch the Creative Producers Hub,  a two-week residency program designed to uncover the next crop of young creative producers, content developers, artists, performers and creative talent.   Selected applicants will take part in a residency program across ACMI in Federation Square and ACMI X in Southbank under the mentorship of experts from ACMI and creative talent from ACMI X's co-working space. 

The Creative Producers Hub participants will work collaboratively to take on the challenge of creating a new work for ACMI's Studio 1 space that explores new forms of engagement with the moving image. Each participant will be paid a $500 commissioning fee in addition to a production budget to help realise their vision. Expressions of interest should be made online and are due 30th November 2016.

A suite of brand new Creative Workshops covering super heroes, zombies and Virtual Reality (VR) join the already extensive list of ACMI Creative Workshops running throughout the summer. For those ready to take the next step, ACMI's popular five-day advanced workshops Advanced Young Coders and Advanced Make a Movie will take curious young minds into new territory.

Hollywood A-listers once again fill the screens at ACMI Cinemas, with the all-star cast of The Adventures of Tintin including Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings) and Daniel Craig (James Bond), along with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End). Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film combines three of Hergé's best-selling graphic novels (The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure) and picked up a Golden Globe for Best Animated Film in 2012.

Joining The Adventures of Tintin in an ACMI exclusive is A Town Called Panic: Double Fun, a double bill of two short-films from the directors of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine. The two short films Christmas Panic and Back to School Panic follow three plasticine toys – Cowboy, Indian and Horse –  on increasingly surreal and freewheeling adventures that have gained the series a cult following.

Additionally, ACMI Cinemas keep up tradition with their annual screening of the Brian Henson's festive classic The Muppet Christmas Carol starring a crotchety Michael Caine.

As always, ACMI's permanent and free Screen Worlds exhibition is open every day except Christmas Day, and with the updated Games Lab and new augmented reality game Yolk-em joining the display in recent months, there has never been a better time to visit.