Eleven days of independent film, made by people who love it.

Meridian began in 2014 as a weekend of films in a single room in Old Town. It is now eleven days across Port Averley each September, but the idea has not changed: find films that would otherwise never reach a cinema here, and show them properly, to an audience, with the people who made them in the room where we can.

We are independent and not-for-profit. A small team and a large crew of volunteers put the festival together, and programmers watch every submission. About a third of each year’s programme is Australian work, and most of the rest has no local distributor.

We care about how films are shown as much as which films are shown. That means good sound, the right aspect ratio, captions and audio description wherever we can provide them, and sessions that start on time.