PARLI-FLICKS SHORT FILM AWARD 2025
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Enter the Parli-Flicks Short Film Award and create a one-minute short film that answers this year’s question:
What do I value about democracy?
Prizes
The shortlisted finalists will be invited to an awards night at the Parliament of NSW in Sydney, where the Parli-Flicks Prize will be announced. Regional finalists will be provided with travel and accommodation assistance for this purpose. The entry that wins the Parli-Flicks Prize will receive a $500 prize and a trophy to be shared amongst the students who submitted that entry. Each shortlisted entry will receive a $100 prize, to be shared amongst the students who submitted that entry, and each shortlisted student will receive an individual medal.
Open to Year 5 to 12 students in NSW
ENTRIES CLOSE: 8 August 2025
Enter the 2025 Parli-Flicks Short Film Award
To enter the Parli-Flicks short film award, create a one-minute film answering the theme question:
Here are the criteria that each film will be judged on:
- You can be imaginative! Your film can be live action or animation. It can be drama, comedy or documentary style. Or you can also simply speak to the camera. The main thing to remember is to answer the question: What do I value about democracy?
- Entries should reflect your understanding of Australian democracy.
- Participate by yourself, or in a group of up to three students.
- Your film must not exceed one-minute in length.
- Judges will be looking for short films that engage their audience.
- Short films must also conform to the conditions and guidelines below.
Five entries will be shortlisted in the following categories:
- Best Regional
- Best Metropolitan
- Bets Primary (Years 5 & 6)
- Best Junior Secondary (Years 7 – 9)
- Best Senior Secondary (Years 10 – 12)
ENTRIES CLOSE: 12 midnight on Friday 8 August 2025
If you have any questions, please email Parliamentary Education & Engagement at dps.education@parliament.nsw.gov.au or call (02) 9230 2047.
Sponsored by Australasian Study of Parliament Group (ASPG)
and
NSW Parliamentary Education & Engagement
Across the world and throughout time, societies have had to make decisions that will work for the majority of their population.
In Australia, we’ve chosen a democratic system of government based on the Westminster system inherited from the United Kingdom. This means we elect representatives to parliament who report our views and make decisions on our behalf. So, instead of each individual voting on every decision, we vote in elections and delegate that responsibility to Members of Parliament.
After an election, the group or political party that has the majority of elected members becomes the Government and the leader of that group becomes the Premier in NSW or the Prime Minister in the Federal Parliament. Our Head of State for NSW is the Governor and for the whole of Australia, the Governor-General who both represent the Sovereign. We do not separately elect a Head of State as occurs in countries such as the United Staes or France.
As citizens, living in a democracy means so much more than just voting at elections. Citizens need to participate at many levels to make democracy work. In your short film, you can explore the concept of democracy: what it means to you and why it’s important that in a democratic nation all citizens have a say and share in the decision-making processes.
