As we head into February many of you will be browsing the packed programs for the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Fringe. In case your credit card heads off into deep, multi-digit space we have some fantastic FREE events, tickets for movie previews and incredible special offers for you.
Tropfest in Adelaide
17 February, 2008
Tropfest 2008 Adelaide is presented by the Media Resource Centre and will be held behind the Garden of Unearthly Delights in the East End Parklands.This is now the world’s largest short film festival so come along and find out why it’s grown into such an unexpected cultural blockbuster. Presented via satellite with 16 short-listed films shown on a 40sqm screen the event will feature performances from some of Adelaide’s top DJs, bonus local short films and some surprises. Congratulations to the MRC Members who are finalists for Sony Tropfest 2008:Sarah Crowest for Looped
and Will Allert for Dusk. Tropfest runs 3.30 pm to 11.30 pm on Sunday 17 February with the broadcast from Sydney commencing at 4.30 pm.
Pixels in the Park
PART OF THE ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL co-presented by aff
Pixels in the Park
is one of the free Fringe Family Weekend programs that we can highly recommend – it’s being co-presented by the AFF and it will be a sparkling night for all family members. Soak up the festive atmosphere of the East parklands, sit back and watch as The Evolving Ear stage transforms into a cinema under the trees for a showcase of the best new animation from South Australia and around the world. The international program has been cherry picked from work recently screened at top international film festivals. Saturday night at 8.15pm 1 March, Rymill Park (Mullawirraburka) www.adelaidefringe.com.au
SUBSCRIBER OFFER!
be quick - this film is hot!
On offer to our lucky subscribers this month are double in-season passes galore to the following films:
To win your tickets, CLICK HERE and fill in ALL of your details, and the name of the film. Tickets are limited, and will fly out the door, so be quick!
If you have trouble filling out the form, please CLICK HERE and email your contact details and film name.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly M
This is one of the most anticipated films of the year, following on from its awards to director Julian Schnabel for Best Director at Cannes and at the Golden Globes, as well as winner of Best Foreign Film. The film is based on the internationally acclaimed memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby,the high-flying editor of French Elle and father of two whose world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe following a massive stroke. Paralysed from head to toe, blinking his left eyelid was his only means of communication but using enormous courage and determination he wrote, letter by letter, his bestselling book.
Thanks to Icon Films for 50 doubles tickets will be given to the first responses. Screening is at 6.30pm on Wed 13 February at Palace Nova Eastend.
In the Valley of Elah MA 15+
A career officer investigates the disappearance of his son, an exemplary
soldier who went AWOL after his recent return from Iraq. Starring Tommy Lee
Jones, Charilze Theron, Susan Sarandon, James France and directed by Paul
Haggis (Crash). Haggis won the SIGNIS Award at Venice for the film and the ever impressive Tommy Lee Jones with a performance described in Times as “drained humanity which anchors this excellent drama” won the International Critics Award for Best Actor and is nominated for an Academy Award.
To win your tickets, CLICK HERE and fill in ALL of your details, and the name of the film. Tickets are limited, and will fly out the door, so be quick!
TOWNSHIP STORIES: exclusive OFFER!
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL OF ARTS
At the Adelaide Film Festival we're all about recommending the best cultural events and shows to our subscribers. The 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts has a program jam packed with incredible world class theatre, film and music. One absolutely unmissable theatre show is Township Stories - we've been lucky enough to secure an exclusive offer for AFF subscribers for $35 tickets - that's a $21 saving!!!
Township Stories has been hailed as “one of the most remarkable pieces of
theatre to emerge from post-apartheid
South Africa. Extraordinary. Compelling.” It is a nail-biting thriller set against the backdrop of life in a post-apartheid South
African township.
Township Stories follows the fate of a schoolgirl who flees her home after a lifetime of squabbling and abuse, only to find solace in the arms of a gangster believes that life’s problems can be solved with violence. Elsewhere, a father brutalises his son (Zenzo Ngqobe) who is having an affair with a woman who runs an illegal drinking house. Living in the township is harsh - it’s a struggle just to stay alive and, with a serial killer on the loose, life has just become a whole lot worse.
And as the horrific stories unfold on stage, soulful music from Louis Armstrong, Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman, Norah Jones and traditional South African Kwaito music interweave with the action to provide a moving, ironic and poignant backdrop.
Paul Grootboom, who directed as well as co-wrote the production, is one of South Africa’s hottest young playwrights and known as the “Township Tarantino”. Talking of his experiences of growing up in the townships he says, “It was a mixture of good and bad, but mostly bad. And although I am happy to have those experiences, it is a life I never would want to live through again.”
Township Stories has already enjoyed huge acclaim in South Africa, having played at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the State Theatre in Pretoria. It has since toured to England and the Edinburgh Festival where it won the prestigious Herald Angel Award . It was also a huge success at the 2006 Vienna Festival.
To book your $35 tickets, simply call Venue*TIX on (08) 8225 8888 and mention the code word "Email Offer " to receive the special price.
The special ticket offer is valid for the following performances:
26 February at 9.30pm
27 February at 9.30pm
28 February at 9.30pm
29 February at 9.30pm
BOOK NOW!
Township Stories plays from 26 February – 9 March at the Royalty Theatre, 65 Angas Street.
Free Digital Feature Workshop
DON'T MISS THIS!
The South Australian Film Corporation and Media Resource Centre present low budget feature makers Kriv Stenders and Kristian Moliere, for a free, day-long workshop and information session.
This workshop is designed to examine the low-budget digital feature filmmaking process from both a creative and practical point of view. Recently released feature Boxing Day, written, directed and shot by Kriv and produced by Kristian, will be analysed as a practical model of the low-budget process that is becoming more and more accessible to the film industry.
Boxing Day will be screened on Sat 9th February 4.30pm at the Mercury Cinema. Tickets $5. Free Workshop: 10am – 3pm Sun 10th February- Mercury Cinema
To register for the workshop please RSVP by Wednesday 6th February to: tudora@safilm.com.au
Flickerfest
After 17 years the Flickerfest Short Film Festival is now synonymous with the best of international and Australian short films. They tour the country and the Adelaide leg at the Mercury Cinema showcases Australian premieres of international shorts on Friday 8 Feb at 7.30pm and The Bold, The Brave, The Best: 30 Years of Oz Animation on Sat 9 Feb at 7.30pm.
Thanks to the MRC we have 3 double passes to the animation session for the first callers to MRC on 8410 0979.AFF Investment Fund News
Lucky Miles emerged as a joint winner of the Best Film prize at the 3rd Asian Festival of 1st Films, along with India's Dharm, about a Hindu priest's questioning of his religious belief. Lesley Dyer was on hand to receive the award for the Australian production at a ceremony at Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
The Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Documentary was given this week to Forbidden Lie$, continuing the accolades for Anna Broinowski and Sally Regan, and The Home Song Stories collected two more awards, one for writer Tony Ayres for Best Screenplay and the other for Joan Chen for Best Actress.
AIDC News
The Arts Projects offices will be considerably emptier as the Australian International Documentary Conference and AFF staff head over to Fremantle for the event on 20-22 Feb. Conference Director Joost den Hartog recently confirmed his keynote speaker -renowned filmmaker - UK director Peter Greenaway.
As well as his fiction films Greenaway has directed and written TV series and a large number of documentaries and mockumentaries. His latest film Nightwatching based around the painting of Rembrandt's most famous painting Nightwatch has screened at the Toronto, Pusan and Venice Film Festivals. At the moment Greenaway is finalising the production of J’Accuse, a documentary that deals with the same subject matter as Nightwatching.
The AIDC will be held in Fremantle, WA from 20-22 February 2008. Log onto the website for more info and to register.
