The Veterans Film Festival (VFF) is an annual event dedicated to putting the spotlight on recent work by veterans and filmmakers who explore diverse perspectives on conflict and veteransʼ themes. The VFF offers a meeting ground and artistic platform for veterans working as creatives, filmmakers and artists of all ages, cultures and abilities to network as creative practitioners, showcase their work and engage with industry, media and audiences. The festival presents a curated program of carefully selected features, documentaries, short films and media art by talented artists from Australia and around the globe. Within our program we will also present mainstream films to gala premieres, retrospectives to themed screenings, as well as crowd pleasing events i.e. workshops, discussions, exhibitions and provide opportunities to meet with veterans, filmmakers and content creators via Q&Aʼs, panels, etc. All films submitted to the official competition are eligible to compete for the coveted Red Poppy Awards, inspired by the John McCrae poem ʻIn Flanders Fieldʼ.