The ISTA Festival is a congregation of drama students from all over Australia and overseas who study and perform based on a topic chosen each year.

The ISTA Festival is held at Caulfield High School Melbourne, Victoria between the 8th and 13th of March.

The 5 days of the festival consists of Workshops and performances where the schools invovled produce a 20 minute skit on a topic in relation to the years title, in this case 'The Quality of Silence'.