Antenna Documentary Film Festival
2011 is the first time around the block for Antenna which is Australia's first International Documentary Film Festival. The event will take place over a five day period at Sydney'sChauvel 
Cinema.
The festival, with 28 feature documentaries will also include nearly $10,000 in prize money spread across three categories.
Films will compete for either the SBS Award for Best International Documentary ($5,000), Award for Best Australian Documentary ($2500), or a student competition in association with AFTRS ($2,000)
When? 5 to 9 October, 2011
Where? Sydney Chauvel Cinema
What? Matchmaking mayors, pool parties, nuclear waste and the Australian premiere of Robert Nugent’s Memoirs of a Plague – about the relationship between humans and locusts.
Other highlights include Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika and Sounak Chakravorty’s The Bengali Detective. There will also be a free screening of celebrated French filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, a meditation on the human memory, presented by National Film and Sound Archive and Alliance Francaise Sydney, and followed by a lecture about Marker’s work.
