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Adelaide Film Festival subscribers have the chance to win in-season double passes to the highly anticipated Adelaide feature 2:37 which will premiere in Australian theatres this August.
2 :37 was selected to open the Melbourne International Film Festival last week, and is the debut feature film from writer/director Murali K. Thalluri and co-producer/co-editor/DOP Nick Matthews. Warmly received by audiences at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, 2:37 speaks to an emerging generation of young, film savvy audiences and will no doubt leave a lasting impression on Australian viewers. Shot in Adelaide on a total budget of $1.1 million, 2:37 was subsequently picked up by Arclight and has sold to several major international territories.
2:37 will screen from August 17th 2006 at cinemas around the country.
To win, simply CLICK HERE or email your FULL NAME and POSTAL ADDRESS to rsvp@adelaidefilmfestival.org
The first 50 entries will be sent a double pass in the mail.
Crossover Australia
A national hothouse for innovation : 16 – 21 February 2007
Crossover Australia, a 5-day interactive, residential workshop designed to brainstorm cross-platform projects, will soon be calling for applications for the 2007 event.
Taking place in the week leading into the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australian International Documentary Conference, Crossover Australia is a creative think tank bringing together national and international practitioners from film and new media sectors, with the aim of developing innovative digital and interactive projects.
Crossover Australia is a part of the SAFC's strategy to develop compelling digital and interactive projects that combine the storytelling skills of independent filmmaking with the new kinds of interactivity made possible by emerging technology.
Submissions open on August 1 until October 16. Places are limited and no fees apply for successful applicants.
Full details, guidelines and application forms are available at www.crossover.org.au
For more information for applicants, contact Sandy Cameron, Project Officer, Screen Industry Programs on (08) 8348 9320 or email crossover07@safilm.com.au
Crossover Australia is presented by The South Australian Film Corporation and the Adelaide Film Festival in association with the Australian International Documentary Conference and with financial assistance from the Australian Film Commission.
Postcards from Karlovy!
On the hunt for new and exciting international films, AFF Associate Director Adele Hann has just returned from an epic trip overseas to Moscow Film Festival and then to Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. Based in a former KGB headquarters, now the Soviet-built Thermal Hotel, the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is a polyglot experience with introductions and Q&As sometimes conducted in three languages, and with all films having to been pre-translated into Czech to provide Czech sub-titles. The festival opened with the world premiere of Kim Ki Duk’s Shi gan (Time) and showcased a series of world premieres, including: Destiny, Beauty In Trouble, Christmas Tree Upside Down, Reprise, Frozen City and Winter Journey.
CLICK HERE to visit the 41st Karlovy Vary Film Festival web site.
fake film festival: entries open!
Returning to the Adelaide Film Festival in 2007 is the incredibly popular Fake Film Festival, and celebrates everything FAKE! Unlike a traditional short film festival, FAKE taps into the modern filmmaker's repertoire by asking aspiring and established directors, editors, animators and digital media practitioners to put together films in three categories.
FAKE Features: Big ideas, but no budget for your masterpiece? The grandest epics and the most woeful concepts will be squeezed into a maximum of three minutes - trailer style - Keep audiences wondering about what will be or could have been.
FAKE Ads: Sell us a fake product and play with the formulas. Enlighten us to the necessity of Rocket Pants or the Cheese-o-matic 2000.
FAKE Docos: Give us an insight into the harsh realities of life as a fictitious person. Go behind the scenes where there are no scenes.
For more info and entry forms check out www.fakefilmfest.com.au
ECOtvc : create your own commercial
ECOtvc is a competition to create a 30-second commercial to raise awareness about sustainability – and inspire people to make changes that will help create a better future for our planet. We want to develop and promote South Australia as a leader in sustainable practices and empower our young people and the broader community to deliver the message.
This year’s competition has a special theme: Zero Waste. With an initial deadline of 5 pm Friday 1 September, now is the time to start thinking – how can your 30-second commercial help us shift toward that goal? Research suggests that young people attach less importance to this issue than older members of the community, so we especially want to reach/inspire/motivate that group. But anyone with a good idea is welcome to enter the competition!
If your entry is among the finalists, you will receive assistance to produce your commercial – and be in the running for cash prizes and the chance to have your creation shown at the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival and on television.
CLICK HERE to visit the ECOtvc website.
SA features in AFI's 48TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF FILM
The 48th Annual AFI Festival of Film will open in Melbourne on Monday 21 August with a gala launch at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square, Melbourne.
The Festival is a major national event that showcases theatrically all sixteen feature films and documentary, animation and short film nominees entered into this year’s AFI Awards. This event runs for three weekends nationally with screenings beginning on Friday 25 August.
The feature film category will include several films with strong South Australian links. Hot off their success at the Cannes International Film Festival, local projects Ten Canoes and 2:37 will screen at the Festival along with The Caterpillar Wish, shot in Robe and the first project completed as part of the AFC’s IndiVision program. The recently released Kenny which had its sound post production completed in Adelaide will also screen as part of the Festival.
Opal Dream, an Australian-UK co-production which was shot in South Australia will open the Adelaide screenings on Wednesday 6 September at the Palace Eastend cinema. Opal Dream was directed by Academy Award Nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty). Based on the novella Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice, it recently opened the 2006 Berlin Film Festival's Kinderfest.
South Australia will also be strongly represented in the Best Short Fiction Film section where local project The 9:13 has received a nomination as well as in the Best Short Animation section where Carnivore Reflux and Gargoyle are also nominees.
The AFI Awards ceremony will be held in Melbourne on 7th December and televised live on Channel 9 at 9.30pm.
CLICK HERE to visit the Australian Film Institute website.
2006 melbourne international film festival
26 July - 13 August 2006
The Melbourne International Film Festival opened last week with the world premiere of this months AFF subscriber free film 2:37, and star studded gala party!
Eight Australian films will have their international screenings at next month's Melbourne International Film Festival. The program also contains 23 films from the Cannes International Film Festival.
They include United 93, about one of the planes hijacked on 9/11, and An Inconvenient Truth, about Al Gore's warnings on global warming.
Other highlights include Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which won the Palme d'Or, Cannes' top prize, and the Cannes Grand Prix winner, Flanders, from France.
Another prize-winner is the Bosnian film Grbavica, which won the Golden Bear, the top award at the Berlin film festival.
Festival director James Hewison is keeping secret the name of the opening-night film. "I want people to have a virginal experience, which is so hard to get in these days of information overload," he said. "I want to focus attention on the film itself, rather than all the details people might have heard about it."
CLICK HERE to visit the Melbourne Interntaionl Film Festival web site.
15th Brisbane International Film Festival
21 July - 13 August 2006
In its 15th year BIFF is set to return with four weeks of unprecedented cinematic pleasure. The festival will officially open on August 2nd with A Prairie Home Companion, a wonderful cinematic valentine to the medium of radio by master director Robert Altman.
The festival has been expanded to include free screenings every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night from July 21st to August 13th. BIFF06 will feature nearly 300 films from across the world at screenings at Regent Showcase, South Bank Cinemas and Palace Centro (New Farm). This year’s retrospective genre will be Film Noir, showcasing classics such as The Third Man, Maltese Falcon and Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt.
This year’s festival will feature the world premiere of 48 Shades, a film adapted from a book by Brisbane author Nick Earls. Based on the award winning novel 48 Shades of Brown, the film 48 Shades tells the story of 16-year-old Daniel Bancroft who moves in with his 22-year-old aunt, Jacq, and her flat mate, Naomi, after his parents transfer to Geneva for a year. The film, set entirely in Brisbane and shot over four weeks in August/September 2005, charts his transition into the adult world with all its complications and confusions. It is the first of Earls’ nine novels to hit the big screen.CLICK HERE to visit the Brisbane Film Festival web site.
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ARTS BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS
CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS NOW!
The SAYAB Scholarships, which are administered by Carclew Youth Arts, exist to support young artists who are demonstrating outstanding talent and potential in their arts practice. The scholarships are awarded to young South Australians to further their professional development and/or training.
The scholarship program provides considerable financial assistance for young artists carving careers in the disciplines of Performing Arts, Visual Arts, and New Writing.
Applications are called for once a year for professional development activity that will take place during the following calendar year. Applicants must be 26 years of age or under at the closing date for applications.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE FRIDAY AUGUST 04, 2006 AT 5PM
Call the SAYAB Industry Development team for more info 8361 9777
