Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
"My favourite form of punctuation is the question mark,. explains documentary filmmaker Maya Newell of her inbuilt bent towards storytelling. .The thing that I really love most about filmmaking is gaining access to worlds that we would never be able to come into contact with otherwise. most of us live in these little cubes of our life, and documentary allows me to step into other people.s.. Her first two films to register on the radar.. Richard: The Most Interestingest Man I.ve Ever Met and Two.. have certainly taken both filmmaker and audiences out of their little cubes. They.ve also managed to pick up Newell a few awards and a bit of a profile:.Two won this year.s F4 Outstanding New Documentary...
- 4/15/2011
- by Ruby Lennon
- IF.com.au
According to the organisers, the Adelaide Film Festival saw a 22 percent increase in attendance during its 2011 edition, and a 16 percent increase in box office revenue from 2009.
“Our ambition to create a festival that encourages conversation and creative collaboration has certainly been delivered,” said the chair of the festival, Cheryl Bart.
Audience members via SMS and online to name Snowtown, Senna and The Palace the Best Feature, Documentary and Short, respectively.
The organisers provided a list of their highlights from the event that took place earlier this month:
The response to the opening night world premiere of Mrs. Carey’s Concert followed by a performance by student Emily Sun and the Marryatville High School orchestra The Woody Allen video tribute and response by Judy Davis on being presented with the Don Dunstan Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Film Industry A resounding response for director Justin Kurzel, producers Anna McLeish...
“Our ambition to create a festival that encourages conversation and creative collaboration has certainly been delivered,” said the chair of the festival, Cheryl Bart.
Audience members via SMS and online to name Snowtown, Senna and The Palace the Best Feature, Documentary and Short, respectively.
The organisers provided a list of their highlights from the event that took place earlier this month:
The response to the opening night world premiere of Mrs. Carey’s Concert followed by a performance by student Emily Sun and the Marryatville High School orchestra The Woody Allen video tribute and response by Judy Davis on being presented with the Don Dunstan Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Film Industry A resounding response for director Justin Kurzel, producers Anna McLeish...
- 3/15/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Maya Newell has taken out the 2011 F4 Award for Outstanding New Documentary Talent for her documentary Two. The award was presented by Australian International Documentary Conference director Joost den Hartog on the closing night of the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival. Two was one of the four finalists selected from around 80 entries from up and coming documentary filmmakers. The film focuses on a middle-aged British man with a furry fetish living in an adult nursery outside of London. According to F4 Jury President Gil Scrine the decision to award the prize to Two was unanimous. "It was closely observed yet discreet and powerful in its simple depiction of this quite bizarre and little known corner of the human condition," he said. The documentary won the Audience...
- 3/6/2011
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Maya Newell has won the F4 Award for Outstanding New Documentary Talent, presented by the Australian International Documentary Conference and the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival.
Newell’s film Two was one of the four finalists, chosen from the more than 80 entries received by the Australian International Documentary Conference.
Two i’s an expose of a secret personal world of adult babies, with the focus on an eccentric middle aged British man with a furry fetish, who is locked into a continual state of wanting to being two years old.
The jury was headed by Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films), joined by Fiona Lawson-Baker (executive producer, Ten Alps Asia), Anna Miralis (Channel4), Jenny Neighbour (programs manager, Sydney Film Festival) and Peter Newman (executive producer of factual for Sbs).
“The jury agreed unanimously on Two because it displays the sensitivity needed for its extremely delicate subject. It was closely observed yet discreet...
Newell’s film Two was one of the four finalists, chosen from the more than 80 entries received by the Australian International Documentary Conference.
Two i’s an expose of a secret personal world of adult babies, with the focus on an eccentric middle aged British man with a furry fetish, who is locked into a continual state of wanting to being two years old.
The jury was headed by Gil Scrine (Gil Scrine Films), joined by Fiona Lawson-Baker (executive producer, Ten Alps Asia), Anna Miralis (Channel4), Jenny Neighbour (programs manager, Sydney Film Festival) and Peter Newman (executive producer of factual for Sbs).
“The jury agreed unanimously on Two because it displays the sensitivity needed for its extremely delicate subject. It was closely observed yet discreet...
- 3/6/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
This year’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will present 20 world premieres of new Australian works, and a total of 48 local features and shorts.
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein...
- 1/28/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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