Tickets AND our strictly limited PASSES are selling fast so book now so you don't miss out.
Visit our website for program details and bookings - www.adelaidefilmfestival.org
It's getting hot outside...
Be cool and escape the heat in the air conditioned comfort of the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas - home of the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival. Just steps from the BAFF box office, the Palace is “festival central”, located on Cinema Place, just off Rundle Street. Grab a choc-top, hang out in the festival bar, try out the Natuzzi lounge, and you might just spot some stars in between screenings.
We have some fabulous guests making their way to the festival this year - Get the scoop below...
3 new sessions now on sale for midnight and the mini-regent cinema
Due to overwhelming demand we've put 3 extra sessions on sale:
Tuesday Feb 24 - Bus departs Rundle St at 8.30pm
Wed Feb 25 - Bus departs Rundle St at 8.30pm
Thurs Feb 26 - Bus departs Rundle St at 8.30pm
Don’t miss out on this HIT from the 2007 festival. See Claudette Colbert in 1939 classic Rom Com MIDNIGHT in this exquisite 24-seat miniature replica of the 1920s Regent movie palaces. (Pls note that on the bus you will receive a complimentary champagne & fruchocs but no Coco loco on these extra sessions ) CLICK HERE TO BOOK
throw down your blanket!
competitive picnicking
by socialbomb (usa)
Will you end the day surrounded by friends and eating a delicious meal, or will you be invaded by ants and left stranded and hungry on the edge of the party? Competitive picnicking is a large multiplayer game of trading items and claiming territories, set on a big lawn on a sunny summer day and using food as game pieces. Players come to the picnic with the basic ingredients for lunch and play a culinary variant of go fish to assemble the highest-scoring snacks and sandwiches.
Competitive Picnicking is a FREE team sport, played in groups of 5 or 6.
For information and to register click here
womadelaide is on it's way..
For one weekend each March, thousands of people from across Australia gather for WOMADelaide, to be enlightened and entertained by performances by musicians, dancers, street theatre and visual artists from all corners of the globe.
From 6–8 March, 2009 Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park will once again be transformed for two nights and three days, showcasing 380 spectacular artists from more than 30 countries, including the great Neil Finn, Sun Kuti & Egypt 80, Rokia Traore, Natascha Atlas, The Cat Empire, Gurrumul, DJ Russ Jones and many more. For tickets and more information please click HERE
house of the holy afro
“After sell-out shows at the 2008 Sydney Festival, House of the Holy Afro is hitting the 2009 Adelaide Fringe! Director Brett Bailey has united South Africa's internationally acclaimed performance troupe Third World Bunfight, superclub house DJ Dino Moran (Ministry of Sounds, Ibiza) and hip performance poet and diva extraordinaire Odidi Mfenyana. A wildly energetic fusion of pulsing house beats and Afro-pop, this is an explosive night that will have the whole house on its feet and shaking their stuff.”
This will be THE show of the Adelaide Fringe so get in quick!
Early Bird tickets from only $25!
"Like the Soweto Gospel choir on acid...”, The Scotsman
“Orchestrated, life-affirming aural and physical chaos”, Daily Telegraph
www.houseoftheholyafro.com.au
To win one of four double passes (for performances March 1-8) to give away.
CLICK HERE and fill in ALL of your details, and type 'HOLY AFRO' in the 'which film?' field.
WWW.ADELAIDEFILMFESTIVAL.ORG
BAFF GUESTS
Our wonderful BAFF guests will be travelling from places as far flung as the boulevards of Budapest to the town camps of Alice Springs , from Delhi, Shanghai, Montreal, Pusan, Dublin, New York and most importantly, from all around Australia.
The young stars of Warwick Thornton’s eagerly anticipated Samson and Delilah , Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara, along with other family, cast and crew based in Alice Springs will be here for their world premiere screening on Friday 20 Feb. Their experience of this BAFF is being captured by a film crew, with Beck Cole as director/DOP, making a documentary about the making of Samson and Delilah. Marissa and Rowan are first –time actors but deliver among the finest performances of the festival.
From Hungary we have the writer/director Attila Gigor, representing the Off the Bloc strand, a collection nine films from East and Central Europe. Attila studied acting and made documentaries and experimental films before bursting onto the international scene with his award-winning feature thriller The Investigator.
Chinese director Zhao Ye will be attending following successful screenings of his Natuzzi Competition film Jalainur in Rotterdam recently. Documentary filmmakers will be out in force with some amazing subjects as the focus of these films. The subjects of four of these documentaries will be appearing alongside the filmmakers in the following : director Safina Uberoi (A Good Man) with Chris and Rachel Rohrlach; with Solo directed by Jen Peedom and guest Vicki MacCauley; Triffid Graham Lee will be at the world premiere of the music doc on the band, it’s raining pleasure; and Yes, Madam Sir , by Australian filmmakers Megan and Laraine Doneman. Their subject is Kiran Bedi, India’s first and highest ranking woman Indian Police officer. She is internationally renown for her innovative reforms in crime prevention, prison reforms and women’s issues but perhaps most famously for single-handedly facing down a rioting and armed crowd of 2,000 people.
Kiran will be speaking at a free forum at the Hawke Centre on with BAFF guest Pamela Yates on 6pm Tuesday 24 Feb. Pamela Yates is presenting her documentary The Reckoning, about the International Criminal Court. Pamela is an Academy and Sundance award- winning filmmaker and this powerful work demonstrates why.
Other distinguished guests include Peter Gilbert (At the Death House Door) from USA; Neasa Ni Chianain and David Rane (Fairytale of Kathmandu) Ireland; Maziar Bahari (Countdown) Iran; George Gittoes and Gabrielle Dalton (The Miscreants) Aust.
The world premieres of seven new Australian feature films will have BAFF hosting a stellar range of guests including some of Australia’s finest actors Hugo Weaving (Last Ride), Natalie Imbruglia (Closed for Winter), Sebastian Gregory, Tahyna Tozzi, Paul Mac (Beautiful) Aden Young (Lucky Country), Oscar Redding (Van Dieman’s Land) Barry and Miranda Otto, and Peter O’Brien for the short film (Shadenfreude). To close the festivalStephan Elliot will introduce his closing night film Easy Virtue.