JIFF Short Film Fund

JIFF and the Jewish Australian Screen Fund (JASF) are proud to announce the winners of the JIFF Short Film Fund for 2025.

This year’s expanded program has offered the biggest grant pool in the history of the JIFF Short Film Fund, partnering with JASF to offer $30,000 to go towards the production of new short narrative works.

JASF director Jamie Bialkower says: “We have been inspired by the diversity of applications. Now is the time to amplify new Jewish Australian voices who are using the medium of cinema to capture both an individual and collective response to the events we are living through.”

This year’s funding recipients are:

The Promised Land
Adam Dostalek (director), Ron Elisha (writer), Dostalek, Elisha and Alexis Fishman (producers)

Mezuzah Man
Jacob Melamed (writer/director)

Shpatzir
Benjamin Levitt (writer/director/producer), David McKinnar (co-director)

Crumbs
Anita Lester (writer/director)

These films will screen as part of JIFF this October. Congratulations to this year’s recipients!