WIN FREE PASSES TO THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO
just for being a subscriber....
Thanks to Palace Films, we have 100 double passes to a special preview screening of The Road to Guantanamo.
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Road to Guantanamo is a gripping, terrifying and fascinating look at how far the US will go in the name of security. Based on real events, acclaimed directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross have recreated the experiences of the three boys now known as the Tipton Three.
100 double passes are being offered to AFF subscribers for the preview weekend screenings on 10-12 November for any session except after 5pm Saturday, at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas.
To win, simply CLICK HERE or email your full name and address (with “The Road to Guantanamo giveaway” in the subject line) to rsvp@adelaidefilmfestival.org
The first 100 entries will receive a double pass in the mail.WIN FREE PASSES TO HUNT ANGELS
more free stuff!!!
Thanks to Palace Films, we have 40 double passes to a special preview screening of Hunt Angels.
Directed by Alec Morgan, Hunt Angels (M) is a non-fiction feature film about Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) and Alma Brooks (Victoria Hill), who in 1939 began a movie making spree that took on the Hollywood barons, a police Commissioner and the cultural cringe all in their passionate pursuit to make Australian films. Hunt Angels uses an innovative digital composite technique whereby the characters come alive in the real world of Sydney in the 1930s and ‘40s.
40 double passes are being offered to AFF subscribers for the preview weekend screenings on 24-26 November for any session except after 5pm Saturday, at the Palace Nova East End Cinemas. For group booking discounts - please contact Palace Cinemas.
To win, simply CLICK HERE or email your full name and address (with “Hunt Angels giveaway” in the subject line) to rsvp@adelaidefilmfestival.org
The first 40 entries will receive a double pass in the mail.
EVEN MORE GIVEAWAYS! WIN FREE PASSES TO SHORTBUS
wow... the giveaways just never end!
Thanks to Hopscotch Films, we have 100 double passes to give away of the controversial new film, Shortbus.
Shortbus is an engagingly funny, honest, romantic drama exploring the modern relationships of a group of New Yorkers who converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus, an underground salon “for the gifted and specially challenged”; a mad nexus of art, music, politics and carnal pleasure. As one character dryly notes in what must surely be thought of as the film's signature line, "It's just like the '60s, only with less hope."
100 double passes are being offered to AFF subscribers for the weekend screenings on 3-5 November for any session except after 5pm Saturday, at the Palace Nova East End Cinema.
To win, simply CLICK HERE or email your full name and address (with “Shortbus giveaway” in the subject line) to rsvp@adelaidefilmfestival.org
The first 100 entries will receive a double pass in the mail.
passio - music and film
world premiere - on sale now!
Netherlands/Italy/US, 2006, 74m Presented by the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
8pm 23 February 2007 | Adelaide Town Hall | Tickets from $42
Arvo Pärt’s Passio, one of the last masterpieces of 20th century music, is the inspiration behind Paolo Cherchi Usai's silent film on the impending crisis of our visual culture, a dramatic meditation on the act of seeing. As a visual accompaniment to the extraordinary oratorio by Pärt, Passio takes this musical experience into the sublime.
For one performance only, and exclusive to the Adelaide Film Festival, PASSIO will be performed live by one of the world's finest vocal ensembles the internationally acclaimed The Theatre of Voices, conducted by Founding director Paul Hillier [USA] - with organist Christopher Bowers Broadbent [UK], the Adelaide Chamber Singers and musicians from Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Using found footage from across the 20th century, this stunning and at times confronting work forces us to examine man's inhumanity to man – and his seeming contempt for nature and the natural – through the merciless lens of the camera. Beautiful, shocking and full of wonders, it is a visceral experience - more than an accompanied silent film of our lost visual memory, more than a music concert supplemented by cinema, Passio is a meditation, a ritual where hearing and seeing become a unified entity, an emotionally powerful and striking oratorio for moving image and sound.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to be the first to experience this WORLD PREMIERE presentation.
"In the 1970’s, an engraved disc was sent out on one of the Voyager missions which left the solar system, and is headed for deep space since then. The disc contains our human existence in shorthand: a man and a woman saluting the aliens out there, a schematic depiction of our solar system, and Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. After having seen Cherchi Usai’s Passio, I think the experiment must now be repeated. If a similar mission is planned for the future, I propose that NASA launches this masterpiece into outer space."
Werner Herzog, Film Director
8pm 23 February 2007 | Adelaide Town Hall | Tickets from $42 | BOOK NOW!
THE LAST ROUND UP: FOUR MORE AFFIF PROJECTS ANNOUNCED
With less than four months to go till we kick off, we are excited to announce the last four projects commissioned for the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival through the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF). The AFFIF provides equity investment in Australian screen production of $500,000 per year for two years (2006-07). Along with the other eight AFFIF titles already announced, these four SA-produced films will premiere at the 2007 AFF. See below for more accolades for previous AFFIF recipients.
What the Future Sounded Like [26 mins; documentary] takes a look at the life of South Australian based composer and innovator Tristram Cary, whose ground-breaking work in the field of electronic and electro-acoustic composition and TV scores (including Dr Who) has had a major influence on contemporary music around the globe.
Director: Matthew Bate; Producer: Claire Harris; Executive Producer: Ian Collie; DOP: Tony Wilson & Nick Matthews.
Swing [20 mins; drama] explores the experience of an adolescent girl – born in Australia but of Vietnamese heritage – struggling to find her identity, as she inhabits two different cultures.
Director: Christopher Houghton; Producer: Louise Pascale; Writer: Cath Moore; DOP: Judd Overton.
Sweet and Sour [10 mins; animation] is a warmly comic fable exploring issues of identity and culture through the eyes of a mongrel dog. A co-production between The People’s Republic of Animation and Shanghai Animation Film Studio.
Director: Eddie White; Producers: Sam White & Huy Nguyen; Executive Producers: Barry Plews & Gong Jian Ying.
Spike Up [25 mins; drama] is a confronting, character-driven story exploring themes of family, friendship, sin and redemption. The story is told through the eyes of Steve, a well-meaning but volatile suburban cop, who undergoes a crisis of conscious throughout an agonising night spent with his drug-addict cop buddy, Tolly.
Writer/Director: Anthony Maras; Producer: Kent Smith; Co-Producer: Scott McDonald; DOP: Nick Matthews.
THE NEVER ENDING GLORY!
ten canoes and look both ways continue to impress
The stunning success of Ten Canoes continues as it picks up awards around the globe. At home, Ten Canoes has been nominated for seven AFI awards, six IF awards and six Film Critics Circle Awards, including Best Film, Direction and Script at all events. The film has just also won the top prizes at the Cinéma des Antipodes in France and the Flanders film festival in Belgium. It has also been nominated as Australia’s entry into the 2007 Academy Awards.
Meanwhile, 18 months after its AFF world premiere, Look Both Ways continues to enchant audiences around the world, having received the Audience Award at the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund in Cologne.
WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL?
we're looking for volunteers!
If you’re enthusiastic, happy, and have a passion for film, then we’d love to meet you!
The AFF is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers to work before and during the festival in Adelaide during February and March 2007. A variety of volunteer positions are available in the areas of Call Centre, Signage, Marketing and Front of House.
In return for working at the Adelaide Film Festival you will receive a Festival Mini Pass, which entitles you to attend six films during the fest.
Visit our website to find out more about the festival and if you are keen on being involved, please email a cover letter and CV to Shalom Almond, Volunteer Coordinator: salmond@artsprojects.com.au
GOOD AS GOLD! FAKE FILM FESTIVAL ENTRIES NOW OPEN
Following its sell-out contribution last year, the Fake Film Festival returns to the Adelaide Film Festival in 2007. 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, Fake Ads and Fake Docos.
For more information and entry forms check out the Fake Film Festival website.
MERCURY PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOB CONNELLY & ROBIN ANDERSON
From 8 November to 2 December, the Mercury Cinema is presenting a retrospective of some of Bob Connelly and Robin Anderson’s award-winning documentaries as part of the 15th Curator In Residence program. In 1992 the documentarians received the Byron Kennedy Award from the Australian Film Institute for their contribution to filmmaking. In 2001 they were awarded the inaugural IF Living Legend Award.
Bob Connolly will appear in person at the Mercury Cinema at 4.30pm on Saturday 2nd December to present films that inspired him.
Curated by Louise Pascale. Visit the Mercury Cinema website for more information.
crossover australia 2007
Crossover Australia is a 5-day interactive, residential workshop designed to brainstorm cross-platform models and projects. Submissions of interest for participation in Crossover 2007 have now closed and we have received an impressive influx of interest. Five leading international practitioners from the film and new media sectors have been confirmed as mentors.
Leading the laboratory is Frank Boyd, former Director of Creative Development with the BBC's Innovation and Learning Team, currently working with Creative London. Supporting him will be television trouble-shooter and BAFTA award-winning producer, Robert Thirkell; TV producer turned cross-media evangelist, Marc Goodchild; Paula Le Dieu, Managing Director of Magic Lantern Productions; and Heather Croall, well-known TV and cross-platform producer and Sheffield International Documentary Conference director.
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.
ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED
Submission for the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival has now closed. Festival panellers are now busy sifting through the hundreds of films that have been submitted over the last few months. The quality of submissions has been outstanding - thanks to all who submitted. Full program deatils will be released on 19 January, 2007.
ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL QUIZ NIGHT Extravaganza!
you've never seen a quiz like this before... details coming soon....
Have you spent your life playing trivial pursuit, beating brainiacs on TV quiz shows and filing your copies of Sight & Sound? If you answer yes, we have a challenge for you that will have your circuits racing. If on the other hand you've spent more time curled up with Who Weekly and cruising Video Ezy you are still in with a chance to win some of the stupendous prizes that will be dished out by Quiz Masters Nick and Juicy Betty at the first annual Adelaide Film Festival Quiz Night Extravaganza in early December.
So get a table of 10 together, pack a food platter and stay tuned for more details!!
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For all of the juicy gos, head straight to our brand new AFF My Space page. It's a perfect place to get the scoop on Adelaide Film Festival related releases, meet other film festival friends and interact with the uncensored blogs and postings...
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