Mission Statement

An Australian Film Initiative was born of a single idea. To market, promote and distribute Australian screen culture in emerging and non-traditional markets. The Australian film industry has a great opportunity to benefit from the rich, vibrant and exponentially globalizing film and media sectors in these markets, from India to the Middle East, from South America to emerging parts of Europe. AAFI’s Directors, Anupam Sharma and Peter Castaldi vision to take Australian film to the world is through showcasing our enormous creative talent and technical capacity in a series of annual film festivals. Together they lead a strong team of professionals dedicated to this project and are gathering momentum with the first initiative – INDIA.  AAFI’s goal of creating annual Australian film festivals across the world is beginning to be realised.