Flickerfest has revealed the 53 films selected to screen as part of the festival's competitive program in its 25th anniversary year.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
The films were chosen from more than 2300 entries.
This year.s official Australian Competition features 18 world premieres, six Australian premieres and 10 Nsw premieres..
Twenty-one female directors are represented across the official Australian competition.
The best of the australian films will be shown over seven sessions.
They will be competing for prizes across all areas of the filmmaking craft including the Academy Accredited Virgin Australia Award for Best Australian Film, the Canon Award for Best Direction and the Yoram Gross Award for Best Australian Animation.
Flickerfest is Australia.s only Academy accredited and BAFTA recognised festvial and runs from Friday January 8-17. .
Festival director Bronwyn Kidd, steering her 19th festival, said she was thrilled that Flickerfest was once again a platform for the Australia's most exciting, creative and talented short filmmakers.
- 12/14/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Spotted a UFO? There's a strong chance the men in black will come knocking too – these dark-suited men have long had a grip on the human psyche …
To most, the premise on which the Men in Black films are based may seem pleasingly fanciful; but not to all. Quite a lot of people believe that dark-suited gents are indeed policing contact between aliens and humans. Concern about this activity goes back a long way. The first of the films, which appeared in 1997, was based on a relatively obscure black-and-white comic-book . This had been launched in 1990, but even by then, speculation about a corps of black-clothed figures supposedly managing our relationship with extraterrestrials was already decades old.
In 1953, Albert K Bender, the editor of a UFO publication called Space Review, announced that he'd found the solution to the flying saucer mystery but had been forbidden to print it. He warned others...
To most, the premise on which the Men in Black films are based may seem pleasingly fanciful; but not to all. Quite a lot of people believe that dark-suited gents are indeed policing contact between aliens and humans. Concern about this activity goes back a long way. The first of the films, which appeared in 1997, was based on a relatively obscure black-and-white comic-book . This had been launched in 1990, but even by then, speculation about a corps of black-clothed figures supposedly managing our relationship with extraterrestrials was already decades old.
In 1953, Albert K Bender, the editor of a UFO publication called Space Review, announced that he'd found the solution to the flying saucer mystery but had been forbidden to print it. He warned others...
- 5/30/2012
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Mark Lawson kicks off our 2012 arts special by looking at how the Olympic Games will highlight the cracks in our culture
A theatre director recently told me that he would not be applying for the currently vacant job of artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, because he wasn't sure what any of the three words in the organisation's name mean any more: monarchy, Elizabethan authorship and permanent acting troupes are all concepts currently in flux. In the same way, anyone seeking to promote "British culture" – a key marketing concept in the year of the 2012 London Olympics – faces the problem that the definition of the United Kingdom is contracting while the definition of culture is expanding.
Many things that would seem to qualify for a notional British pavilion in an entertainment fair soon require to be subject to qualification. The X Factor is definitely British – but is it culture? My Week with Marilyn,...
A theatre director recently told me that he would not be applying for the currently vacant job of artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, because he wasn't sure what any of the three words in the organisation's name mean any more: monarchy, Elizabethan authorship and permanent acting troupes are all concepts currently in flux. In the same way, anyone seeking to promote "British culture" – a key marketing concept in the year of the 2012 London Olympics – faces the problem that the definition of the United Kingdom is contracting while the definition of culture is expanding.
Many things that would seem to qualify for a notional British pavilion in an entertainment fair soon require to be subject to qualification. The X Factor is definitely British – but is it culture? My Week with Marilyn,...
- 12/30/2011
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
Producer John Edwards has been given an honorary degree from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs).
The honour was part of the Aftrs 2011 student graduation ceremony held at Carriage Works on Friday 9 December.
Claudia Karvan, co-producer of Spirited and Love My Way with Edwards, presented him with the honour. Simon Crean, minister for the arts also delivered a keynote speech.
Edwards, producer of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, the upcoming Beaconsfield the Telemovie and number Three in Encore’s 2011 Power 50, joins past honorary recipients Baz Luhrmann, Jan Chapman, George Miller and John Doyle.
As well as Edwards, at the student graduation ceremony, students also received eight students also received awards and grants.
Students awards and grants include:
Av Myers Indigenous Award for exceptional talent
Cornel Ozies (graduate diploma cinematography) – $20,000 grant
John Harvey (Aftrs Alumni) – $20,000 grant
Kenneth B Myer Scholarship for exceptional talent
Flynn Wheeler – $20,000 grant
Kenneth B...
The honour was part of the Aftrs 2011 student graduation ceremony held at Carriage Works on Friday 9 December.
Claudia Karvan, co-producer of Spirited and Love My Way with Edwards, presented him with the honour. Simon Crean, minister for the arts also delivered a keynote speech.
Edwards, producer of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, the upcoming Beaconsfield the Telemovie and number Three in Encore’s 2011 Power 50, joins past honorary recipients Baz Luhrmann, Jan Chapman, George Miller and John Doyle.
As well as Edwards, at the student graduation ceremony, students also received eight students also received awards and grants.
Students awards and grants include:
Av Myers Indigenous Award for exceptional talent
Cornel Ozies (graduate diploma cinematography) – $20,000 grant
John Harvey (Aftrs Alumni) – $20,000 grant
Kenneth B Myer Scholarship for exceptional talent
Flynn Wheeler – $20,000 grant
Kenneth B...
- 12/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Author T.C. Boyle has written evocatively about an extraordinary range of subjects, but the common thread is an interest in characters whose idealism proves incompatible with reality. Whether they’re hippies (Drop City), environmentalists (When The Killing’s Done), or historical figures like Alfred Kinsey (The Inner Circle) or John Harvey Kellogg (The Road To Wellville), they face compromises that may be necessary, or may corrupt their souls. Based on a Boyle short story—originally published in The New Yorker, then later in the anthology Wild Child And Other Stories—Joshua Leonard’s perceptive The Lie runs the theme ...
- 11/17/2011
- avclub.com
Swedish author Henning Mankell has created a detective that has caught the world.s attention in bestselling novels of mystery and murder. Kenneth Branagh brings to life Detective Kurt Wallander in masterful detail in three adventures that have been shown on Masterpiece Mystery on PBS. To understand the appeal of Kurt Wallander as a character and the books of Henning Mankell, British crime fiction author John Harvey takes viewers on a trip to the city of Ystad in Southern Sweden, the locale for most of Mankell.s Wallander stories. In this wonderful DVD extra Harvey tells us that the Swedish author August Strindberg called Ystad a collection of pirates and thieves back in the 1890.s, so it seems to...
- 8/4/2009
- by June L.
- Monsters and Critics
Lee Pfeiffer reports on the Bradford International Film Festival -Day 3
Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years,...
Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years,...
- 3/28/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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