Seth Larney’s sci-fi thriller 2067 will world premiere as the opening film of the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival on October 14th.
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Seth Larney’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘2067’ to Open Adelaide Film Festival
2067 directed by Seth Larney
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HOTEL MUMBAI Starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel to Open 2018 Adelaide Film Festival
The internationally anticipated film Hotel Mumbai is set for an Australian Premiere at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival Film Festival Opening Night Gala on Wednesday October 10, after its World Premiere as a TIFF special presentation in September at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed by Anthony Maras and starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel, Nazanin Bonaidi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, with Anupam Kher, and Jason Isaacs, Hotel Mumbai tells the astonishing story of those trapped in the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in the 2008 attacks.
Director Anthony Maras comments, “I am forever grateful for the unwavering support the Adelaide Film Festival has offered our project since day one. The SAFC and ADL Film Fest’s backing of Hotel Mumbai enabled my home town of Adelaide to play a crucial role in the making of this truly international production, and allowed us to work again with so many amazing South Australian cast and crew. It could not be more fitting to premiere the film at AFF, and so soon after the World Premiere at the Toronto international Film Festival.”
HOTEL MUMBAI
26 November 2008. A wave of devastating terror attacks throughout Mumbai catapult the bustling Indian metropolis into chaos. In the heart of the city’s tourist district, Jihadist terrorists lay siege to the iconic Taj Palace Hotel, whose guests and staff become trapped in a heroic, days-long fight for survival.
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I AM NOT A WITCH and TASTE OF CEMENT Win at 2017 Adelaide Film Festival
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I Am Not A Witch and documentary Taste of Cement are the top prize winning films of the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. The festival named Nothing Happens, the winner of the inaugural AFTRS International VR Award.
The 2017 ADL Film Fest International Feature Award winner, I Am Not A Witch, is the feature debut of Zambia-born Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, and tells the tale of Shaula, a young, Zambian orphan banished from her village to a ‘witch camp.’ The Jury hailed the film as “unique and bold … surprisingly funny … a bold debut from a bright new talent.”
The 2017 Flinders University International Best Documentary Award goes to Ziad Kalthoum’s Taste of Cement. The film details the tale of Syrian Construction workers who are virtually imprisoned on the site of the Beirut skyscrapers they build. It celebrated its Australian Premiere at ADL Film Fest, and was applauded by the Jury; “a poetic unfolding … we admire the filmmaker’s audacity, ambition and heart … Ziad is a director of talent.”
For the 2017 GU Film House Audience Awards, as voted by the audiences, Best Feature went to Warwick Thornton’s frontier western – Sweet Country, Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible scooped up Best Documentary; and Oddlands took Best Short.
Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback Northern Territory. When Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills white station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie) in self-defence, Sam and his wife Lizzie (Natassia Gorey-Furber) go on the run. They are pursued across the outback, through glorious but harsh desert country.
With credits including Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, The Dish, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet and Road to Perdition Jill Bilcock is regarded as one the world’s great film editors. Axel Grigor’s hugely entertaining documentary Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible, traces Bilcock’s journey from Melbourne film student in the 1960s to working as an extra in Bollywood movies and learning her craft when Australia had virtually no feature film industry.
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‘JIN’ ‘BLUSH OF FRUIT’ Win Top Awards at 2013 Adelaide Film Festival
JIN directed by Reha ErdemTurkish film JIN and the documentary BLUSH OF FRUIT won top film honors at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival which took place October 10 to 20, 2013 in Adelaide, Australia. JIN, directed and written by Reha Erdem is the winner of the Foxtel Movies International Award for Best Feature Film and BLUSH OF FRUIT, directed by Jakeb Anhvu, is the winner of the festival’s first ever Documentary Award.
in JIN, a 17-year-old girl deserts the Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains and tries to make her way through the forest to her grandmother’s house. It’s a simple enough story that plays on the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, but it sets the framework for a film of extraordinary visual richness. As she moves through the intense green landscapes, she is in constantly in contact with animals who share her condition as solitary, threatened and magnificent figures—and there is no shortage of big bad wolves in the world, though they are exclusively human. Man makes war not simply on himself, but also on nature.
Blush of Fruit directed by Reha ErdemBLUSH OF FRUIT, is described as a fly on the wall documentary about a man’s quest and the mothers who care for the abused, orphaned children of Nha–Trang, Vietnam. Tong Phuoc Phuc has won fame and fortune by opposing abortion in the name of Christianity and accumulating lucrative donations for taking in unwanted babies and pregnant girls in Vietnam. The girls are used as carers though the children are routinely treated with neglect and cruelty.
2013 Audience Award Winners
Most Popular Feature – CHARLIE’S COUNTRY, directed by Rolf de Heer
CHARLIE’S COUNTRY, directed by Rolf de HeerAfter glowing reviews at the Festival from such publications as The Guardian, Screen Daily, Fairfax and ABC Radio, audiences agreed. Starring David Gulpilil, Charlie’s Country tells the story of an Aboriginal man living in a remote community who takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Most Popular Short – THE GALLANT CAPTAIN, directed by Graeme Base and Katrina Mathers
Screened as part of the Festival’s family session, The Gallant Captain is the animated film debut of renowned children’s book illustrator and author Graeme Base. Adapted from Base’s hugely popular picture book The Legend of the Golden Snail, The Gallant Captain is a child’s pirate fantasy that celebrates the power of the imagination.
Most Popular Documentary – ONCE MY MOTHER, directed by Sophia Turkiewicz
ONCE MY MOTHER, directed by Sophia TurkiewiczThis is the story of two women: Turkiewicz, an award-winning Australian filmmaker, and her mother Helen. It is a story of survival and forgiveness, and finally a deeply affecting love story. In her old age her daughter leads her through a rediscovery of the epic journey of her life, from Poland to a wartime Siberian gulag, and through Uzbekistan, Persia and a refugee camp in Africa before she comes to rest in Adelaide. Turkiewicz traces her own life in parallel with her mother’s in an effort to make peace with their troubled relationship.
Audience Award Top 10′s:
FEATURE:
1. Charlie’s Country
2. Beatriz’s War
3. 52 Tuesdays
4. Like Father, Like Son
5. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
6. Short Term 12
7. The Past
8. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
9. Omar
10. Broken Circle Breakdown
DOCUMENTARY
1. Once My Mother
2. Tender
3. All This Mayhem
4. Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow
5. Fire in the Blood
6. This Ain”t No Mouse Music!
7. Muscle Shoals
8. Battle of the Sexes
9. Blackfish
10. A World Not Ours
SHORT
1. The Gallant Captain
2. Welcome to Iron Knob
3. I Want To Dance Better At Parties
4. Bonny Doon
5. Oh Willy
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“A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM” to Close 2013 Adelaide Film Festival | TRAILER
The Australian Premiere of director Mark Cousins’ documentary A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM will close this year’s Adelaide Film Festival. Cousins has put together what the festival has described as a richly complex picture of the various aspects of children as they exhibit defiance and doggedness, as they learn distinctions of class, and as they come to understand loneliness and loss.This year’s Adelaide Film Festival runs October 10 to 20, 2013.
A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM is described as the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood – its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness – as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries.It includes classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Red Balloon, also dozens of masterpieces (many directed by women) that are almost unknown.It combines the child’s eye view of Mark Cousins’ acclaimed film The First Movie, with the revelations and bold movie history of his 15 hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
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