Secret Cinema
Tickets go on sale this morning to World Movies Secret Cinema.
Secret Location - Secret Film - Expect the unexpected on the 2nd May in Sydney.
All tickets include a drink upon entry and food throughout the night, along with a mystery film and an after-party with live DJ
Volunteers Required - Young at Heart FF
Love film, and love film festivals? Volunteers are needed for Young at Heart at Dendy Opera Quays.
If you’re available between Thursday 22 and Sunday 25 March and are able to travel to Sydney’s Opera Quays (and wouldn’t mind getting to see some free films in exchange for your assistance) then please email Tim@thefestivalists.com or call 02 9281 5608.
WIN! your place at KINO KABARET - Sydney
Kino Kabaret - 32hr filmmaking marathon!
Kino Kabaret 2011 is offering one lucky person the chance to participate in Sydney’s fastest filmmaking marathon! (Thursday 27th - Friday 28th October 2011 session)
Kino Kabaret provides you with all the tools and contacts to shoot a film in under 32 hours!
With the SONY HVR-Z1P, green screens, actors, music, locations and swish editing facilities at your finger tips, anything is possible!
The prize also includes access to a free workshop on casting, entry to the screenings parties, booze, food and circus entertainment!
http://www.kinosydney.com/kino-kabaret-2011/
To enter let us know why you would like to participate in the Kino Kabaret - 32hr filmmaking marathon in 32 words or less.
Entries must be emailed by Monday 24th October 11am to leigh@filmfestivalguide.com
Please include your name, email and phone number.
Winner will be notified by email on Monday 24th Oct before 4pm.
Prize does not include transport or accommodation.
Kino Kabaret Filmmaking Marathon
Kino Kabaret is one of the longest standing best kept secret filmmaking marathons in Sydney. Why so? Because anyone who has made a short film will know that one of the biggest long stretch annoyances is pre-production - finding actors, searching locations, arranging location permits, hiring cameras, lighting kits, finding crew etc etc and this means a lot of time and $$$! Thus Kino Kabaret is unique in that all the pre-production and hard film yards are already done for you.
Proudly supported by Metroscreen, all Kino Kabaret teams are provided camera and lighting kits, access to green screen and professional editing labs. So all you really need is a great idea and to sign/then turn up on the morning of your marathon session. Actually, you don’t even need an idea. Just sign/then turn up on the day and be ready to team up and play.
“One of the most exciting things for me is that you have people who come along who’ve never shot a film before and who are very nervous about it, and the kick they get at the end from seeing their film on the big screen in front of everyone, is such a rush. What’s also exciting is a lot of them continue to make films and grow as a filmmaker” says luminescent Kino Kabaret Festival Co-ordinator, Adele Moletta, who herself is also a film and documentary maker.
The spirit of Kino Kabaret is one that encourages spontaneity, collaboration and community. Everyone, no matter if you’ve never held a camera or have operated a red camera on a crane, is invited to come together and create something in this spirit of innovation and community. There is a place for everyone. And having the films you make shown at screening parties straight after the 32hr marathon, it really is a celebration of making short films low on budget but high on creativity and community. And we overuse the word “community” because this is what its really about.
2011 Kino Kabaret filmmaking marathons are happening: Wednesday 25th - Sunday 30th October
For more information and registration please visit http://www.kinosydney.com/kino-kabaret-2011/
Participant fee is only $30. Participation forms and payment must be in by Friday 14th October.
Kathy Luu
Manhattan Film Festival - Sydney
“From the first second you’ve got to know why you’re watching the film. It’s why I love watching Alfred Hitchcock. In the first three minutes you know why you’re watching his films. And it’s kind of the same way I think of this festival and the films we show.” says Nick Mason, founder Of Manhattan Shorts Film Festival.
Now in its 13th year, this may also explain Manhattan Shorts’ exponential growth from being projected on the side of a delivery truck in downtown Manhattan, to screening over 250 cinemas over 5 continents this year. “Since the festival’s inception, our idea was to find the best short filmmaker in the world and take it to the largest audience in the world…” says Mason. With the aim to spread interest in short films and create an event that brings people together internationlly, Manhattan Shorts is expecting more than 100 000 people worldwide to view and vote over one week this year, its festival tagline: One World, One Week, One Festival.
I will admit that I’ve never been this excited over a short film festival in Australia by just reading over a program and the directors’ interviews. Each of the stories and the directors’ vision come from a place that is alive and compelling, where some of the films this year came about because life is actually stranger than fiction.
Our Aussie own, writer and director Christopher Stollery’s DIK, about a six year old boy who brings home a piece of schoolwork that provokes his parents to question his sexual orientation, which sparks their own hidden secrets and truths to come to the surface, will leave you laughing and pondering at the same time. I was lucky to catch this film at another festival, and watching it you’ll understand why it has also captured audiences at festivals around the world. Chris will also be at the Sydney screening to introduce DIK.
For avid lovers of world movies and interesting stories, this feels like a selection of the world’s best shorts in one place.
For Sydneysiders, like any good film festival there’s an afterparty after the screening. Yes, at KONGS Jungle Lounge, from 10pm,110 Spring St - Bond Junction
So come watch, vote and celebrate the world of short films.
Manhattan Shorts will be screening in Sydney Saturday 1st October, 7pm at the Chauvel Cinema.
Tickets are limited https://www.palacecinemas.com.au/sessiontimes/session/170/17984/
For more information about other screenings around Australia and interviews with finalists http://www.manhattanshort.com/info.html
Film lovers in Sydney will get the chance to unite with audiences spanning 6 continents throughout the week, to vote for their favorite short film at the Manhattan Film Festival. The event will take place on October 1st, 7pm at the Chauvel Cinemas in Paddington.
For tickets visit: http://bit.ly/oUmuiO
For Audiences across Australia who wish to attend the Festival and be part of the Global Critics Circle to cast their votes; the MANHATTAN SHORT 2011 will be held at The Chauvel in Sydney on Sat 10/1 (Tickets On Sale OnLine) - The Astor & Boronia Metro Cinemas in Melbourne Wed 9/28 - Mercury Cinemas in Adelaide on Sat 10/1 - Avoca Beach on Thu & Fri, 9/29 & 9/30 - Tenterfeild Wed 9/28 - Brisbane Sat 10/1 - Rockhampton Fri 9/30 - Noosa Heads Sat 10/1 - Fremantle Wed 9/28 & Port Hedland Sat 10/1
The eighth annual Australian festival of Russian films, Russian Resurrection, has announced its official line up of films for 2011. The program features 15 outstanding new Russian films, including many Australian and international premieres, along with a retrospective of five Russian classics including the 1980 Oscar® Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS.
The Festival will showcase two Russian box office hits, a comedy starring Hollywood actress Milla Jovovich (THE FIFTH ELEMENT, RESIDENT EVIL), LUCKY TROUBLE, and a comedy by renowned director Timur Bekhmambetov, SIX DEGREES OF CELEBRATION.
Also included in the stellar line-up is the drama, ELENA, from one of the most successful Russian directors of the past ten years, Andrei Zviagintsev; nominee for Best Foreign Film in the 2011 Golden Globe® Awards, THE EDGE; and BREST FORTRESS, a realistic account to the beginnings of the Second World War and an example of Russia’s ability to produce some of the best war films ever made.
For full program visit : www.russianresurrection.com
Korean Film Festival 2011
Sydney
August 24-29
Dendy Cinemas, Opera Quays
Circular Quay, Sydney
Melbourne
September 10-13
ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Melbourne
details http://www.koffia.com.au/
It has taken me some time to kickstart the New Year! But what a great way to start my updates for 2011 with the Chinese Film Festival - Sydney. The festival commences this evening with the Opening Ceremony and Golden Koala Award evening.
The festival runs until the 14 Feb at Event Cinmeas in George Street.
For more info: http://sydneychinesefilmfestival.org.au/index.html
Brendt Barbur, Founding Festival Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival when he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. He insisted on turning his negative experience into a positive one. In 2001 Barbur started the Bicycle Film Festival as a platform to celebrate the bicycle through music, art and, of course, film.
Sydney Festival | Nov 17 - Nov 21
More information:
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/sydney/
3rd Palestinian Film Festival
This year’s theme is Visit Palestine in Reel-Time, inviting filmgoers on an unforgettable journey through the complexity yet undeniable beauty of Palestine.
The festival opens with the semi - autobiographical Zindqeeq by Michael Kh.leife and includes Julian Schnabel’s Miral, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Hiam Abbass and Willem Dafoe.
Sydney | Melbourne 18 Nov - 28 Nov 2010
For more information visit: http://palestinianfilmfestival.com.au
Let It Roll – Youth Film Industry Forum
Let It Roll – Youth Film Industry Forum
When:
6pm – 8pm, Tuesday 23 November
Where:
Customs House Library, Level 2 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay
Speakers include Ruth Cullen - one of Australia’s most experienced directors who is best known for her intimate character based documentaries. And James Findlay – who has worked in film and TV for the past 10 years, also winner of the Golden Star for Best Film at the VSM Short Film Festival in Hollywood and was a finalist at the 2006 IF Awards.
A free seminar for young people 15-30 yrs of age. RSVP is essential as space is limited to 45 participants. Please RSVP to ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or phone: 02 9245 1503.
Sydney Film Festival Entries Open
Sydney Film Festival 2011 is calling for entries to its Australian competitive sections: the Dendy Awards
for Australian Short Films; FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize; and the Yoram Gross Animation
Award. The deadline for entries is 16 February 2011 and entry details are available at www.sff.org.au.
The 2011 Sydney Film Festival will take place from Wednesday 8 June through Sunday 19 June 2011.
The Sydney Latin American Film Festival
Dendy Opera Quays | 1- 9 Sept
Mu-Meson Archives | 10-12 Sept
Macquarie Uni | 14-15 Sept
Casula PowerHouse | 16- 19 Sept
