Acknowledgement of Country

Quiet on set, and action!

2026 Sit Down Shutup And Watch Screen Festival

Join us in Nuriootpa from 22 to 24 October 2026 for a free three-day festival.

The 2026 festival program is now live, featuring conversations, workshops and screenings of more than 20 short films by learning disabled and neurodivergent filmmakers from Australia and around the world.

Explore this year's program and selected films, join us for free screenings on Friday and Saturday, and book your place in the CONSENSUS workshops.

Everyone is welcome.

An online version of the festival will also be available so everyone can take part.

This year marks our 15th anniversary and 7th biennial festival. As the first disability-led screen festival in the Southern Hemisphere, we're proud of our history of leadership, adaptation and innovation.

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“People are only as disabled as their environment, so if we start to create a culture where it is acceptable for everybody to be able to create, then we are automatically adapting the culture to enable that to happen.”

-SDSW Founding Committee Member, Lee Witczak