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
