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Like Us & a Warning!

Like Us & a Warning!

We have a new Facebook page and we’re looking for ‘likes’: https://www.facebook.com/novafocusonability

Also, a word of warning for folk submitting films; something in Australia Posts processing system is clearly squeezing standard envelopes with very unfortunate consequences for any USB inside. This has not been an issue in past years but we have now (not) received a couple of entries, rather we received the tattered remains of their envelopes. In both cases we have been able to contact film makers to get either a resend or download but it looks like whatever has changed has the potential to shred the envelope – maybe place USB in some padding first?

4 days to go!

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