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WATCH THE FILMS. MEET THE MAKERS.
Founded in 1999 by independent filmmakers Gary Doust and Matt Wheeldon, Popcorn Taxi is a regular in-depth film event where filmmakers and enthusiasts can meet, watch films of all types, and discuss the filmmaking process.
What makes Popcorn Taxi unique is the focus on the filmmakers' craft and careers, rather than tabloid-like gossip. The moderator/interviewers (often filmmakers themselves), aim in most sessions to explore why the filmmakers made the choices they did, and how they brought their visions to the screen. The guests are usually Producers, Directors, Actors, Writers, Editors, Cinematographers, Visual Effects Supervisors, Designers and Composers.
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER
TOURING NATIONALLY.
Queensland’s Heart of Gold International Film Festival has had audiences laughing, smiling and cheering for the past two years. For the first time, in November, the festival is hitting the road touring across Australia and spreading some of that joy.
Screening at Hoyts, the Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival showcases films that entertain the audience with thought-provoking, uplifting and hilariously funny takes on life.
Two programs of short films were selected from 1000 entries from over 40 countries and each film was selected for its ability to enrich the viewer.
Festival Director Toni Powell says “choosing the films for these sessions was easy, I have so many amazing films to choose from, the hard part was deciding which films not to include. “We also know from experience, that once viewers have seen one session, they’ll want more. Screening the festival over six days ensures our audience doesn’t miss a single moment.” Heart of Gold International Film Festival Director Toni Powell said the festival’s appeal was two-fold.
PROGRAM 1
Fast Spin Fling
Butterfly Man
Bloody Footy
Estranged
Fancy
Cheat Neutral
Validation
In The Mood
Sad Dog
Big Girl
Victoria
PROGRAM 2
Mavis
Emily’s Song
The Tale Of Sir Richard
Mobile
Fetch
My Name Is Yu Ming
The Fan And The Flower
Dates:
13 - 18 NOVEMBER - Hoyts Tea Tree Plaza in Adelaide & Hoyts Southlands in Perth.
20 - 25 NOVEMBER - Hoyts Cinema Paris Sydney, Hoyts Chadstone and Eastland in Melbourne, Hoyts Erina on the NSW Central Coast and Hoyts Woden in the ACT.
Bookings:
Tickets available securely online at www.hoyts.com.au or at the cinema box office.
DON'T DIS MY ABILITY - ACCESS ALL AREAS FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
NSW
ACCESS ALL AREAS Film Festival is a fully accessible film festival that will travel around NSW throughout November and December as part of this year's Don't DIS my ABILITY campaign.
Screening as part of the Festival will be several Australian feature and short films that have been audio described (for people with a vision impairment) and open-captioned (for people who are deaf or have a hearing impairment). The festival will screen in cinemas that provide easy access to those with mobility issues. This means that there will indeed by ACCESS ALL AREAS for the festival audience.
The festival travels to Lismore, Merimbula, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo and Newcastle and culminates in Sydney on December 3 at the Dendy Opera Quays with a celebration of the United Nations International Day for People with a Disability. The director of ALL MY FRIENDS ARE LEAVING BRISBANE, Louise Alton will introduce her film being shown at the Dendy Opera Quays on December 3.
The festival includes the classic film THE CASTLE which has recently been Audio Described and Captioned for the first time making this much loved movie now accessible to everyone.
DATES:
7 & 8 November - Lismore, Greater Union, Cnr Keen and Zadoc streets, Lismore
14 & 15 November - Merimbula - The Picture Show Man, 80 Main St, Merimbula
17 & 18 November - Wagga Wagga - Forum 6 Cinema, 77 Trail Street, Wagga Wagga
20 & 21 November - Dubbo, Reading Cinema, 49 Macquarie street, Dubbo
23 & 24 November - Glendale, Greater Union, Stockland Supercentre, 387 Lake road, Glendale
3 December - Sydney, Dendy Opera Quays Cinema, East Circular Quay, Sydney.
For more information please visit:
http://www.DontDISmyABILITY.com.au
THE MET: LIVE IN HD - SCREENINGS AROUND AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER 2008 - MAY 2009
NATIONAL
The New York Metropolitan Opera Company’s groundbreaking 2008/2009 new series, captured live in HD will commence concurrently with the New York performances in an expanded season in Australian cinemas on October 25.
THE MET: LIVE IN HD will comprise 10 transmissions in 2008/2009 between October 2008 until the end of May, 2009 in a number of additional city and regional screens in response to its continuing success.
The Metropolitan Opera Company is considered the greatest opera company in the world. The new season will continue to show its commitment to presenting modern masterpieces alongside the classic repertory, with highly theatrical productions featuring the greatest opera stars in the world, including Karita Mattilia, Anna Netrebko with Rolando Vellazon, Juan Diego Florez, Natalie Dessay and Renee Fleming.
Using state-of-the-art technology, THE MET: LIVE IN HD captures the onstage action from striking angles and heightens attention to the narrative elements of both performance and production. Behind-the-scenes features, live interviews with cast and crew, insightful short documentaries, and bird’s-eye views of the productions offer an unprecedented look at what goes into the staging of an opera.
DATES:
October 25, 26 & 30 - Richard Strauss’ SALOME. Karita Mattila caused a sensation when she sang Salome in 2004. She reprises her acclaimed interpretation of the part with her unforgettable Dance of the Seven Veils. With baritone Juha Uusitalo as Jochanaan. Mikko Franck conducts.
November 22, 23 & 27 - NEW PRODUCTION: DOCTOR ATOMIC- John Adams’ contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Directed by Penny Woolcock and starring Gerald Finley and Sasha Cooke.
December 6, 7 & 11 – Hector Berlioz’s, LA DAMNATION DE FAUST, conducted by James Levine, directed by Robert Lepage. Using ethereal projections, Lepage has created a vision that seamlessly marries art and technology. Starring Susan Graham and Marcello Giordani. A NEW PRODUCTION reconceived in collaboration with Ex Machina for the Met, based on a co-production of the Saito Kinen Festival and Opera National de Paris.
January 10, 11 & 15, 2009 – Jules Massenet’s THAIS, starring the radiant Renée Fleming as the Egyptian courtesan in search of spiritual sustenance and Thomas Hampson as Athanael – in a NEW PRODUCTION originating from the Lyric Opera of Chicago and directed by John Cox.
January 31, February 1 & 5 – Puccini’s LA RONDINE, directed by Nicolas Joel and starring opera’s charismatic real-life duo Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna – NEW PRODUCTION (Co-production with the Theatre du Capitole, Toulouse and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
February 14, 15 & 19 – Gluck’s ORFEO ED EURIDICE. Mark Morris’s acclaimed production returns! With choreography by Morris, costumes by Isaac Mizrahi and featuring the artistry of Stephanie Blythe and Danielle de Niese. James Levine conducts.
March 7, 8 & 12 – Donizetti’s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Anna Netrebko stars as the fragile heroine and Rolando Villazón as her lover Edgardo. Mary Zimmerman’s acclaimed production is staged as a Victorian ghost story.
March 21,22 & 26 - Puccini’s MADAME BUTTERFLY, stars Cristina Gallardo-Domâs in the title role in Anthony Minghella’s stunning production with Marcello Giordani as Pinkerton. Patrick Summers conducts.
April 4, 5 & 9 – Bellini’s LA SONNAMBULA, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez in this NEW PRODUCTION by Mary Zimmerman with Evelino Pico conducting. Bellini’s hauntingly lyrical score soars as performed by Dessay and Juan Diego Florez.
May 23,24 & 28 – Rossini’s LA CENERENTOLA. El¥na Garanãa stars in Rossini’s bel canto Cinderella story, with Lawrence Brownlee as her Prince Charming. Maurizio Benini conducts. Alessangro Corbelli demonstrates his impeccable comic timing to mach the gravitas of Met favourite, John Relyea.
The operas will play on Saturdays at 11.30am, Sundays at 1pm and on Thursdays at 11.30am.
VENUES:
VIC - Cinema Nova - Carlton • The Sun - Yarraville • Wangaratta Cinemas • Rosebud Cinemas
NSW - Chauvel Cinema - Paddington • Hayden Orpheum - Cremorne • Regent - Tamworth • Avoca Beach Picture Theatre • Australia Cinemas - Orange • Griffith City Cinema • Belgrave Cinemas - Armidale • Narooma Cinema • Empire Cinema - Bowral • Forum Cinema - Wagga Wagga
WA - Luna Cinemas - Leederville • Fremantle Luna On SX
SA - Palace Nova Eastend Cinema
ACT - Canberra Dendy Cinemas
QLD - Palace Centro • Noosa 5 Cinemas
TAS - CMAX Devonport
For updates, links to each cinema website and ticket information visit: http://www.theMetinAustralia.info
FESTIVAL OF JEWISH CINEMA
5-23 NOVEMBER - MELBOURNE
6-23 NOVEMBER - SYDNEY
The 19th annual Festival of Jewish Cinema will showcase the best of Jewish cinema, including 16 Australian premieres, from 5-23 November, 2008 at Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image and from 6-23 November, 2008 at Sydney’s GU Bondi Junction Cinemas.
Festival highlights include two films by of world renowned filmmaker Amos Gitai; DISENGAGEMENT - a powerful drama starring Juliette Binoche as Ana, a French woman who after the death of her father is compelled to return to Israel to search for the child she gave up twenty years earlier. Eventually arriving in Israel with her brother Uli during the period of the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Ana comes face to face with the county’s present reality as she struggles to re-engage with her own personal history. Also included is Gitai’s most recent film ONE DAY YOU'LL UNDERSTAND which follows the story of Victor, a successful Parisian businessman, who is spurred on by current events, to try to put together the missing pieces of his family history by travelling to a French village where his grandparents and mother used to live, in the hope of finding some answers.
Festival favourite Amos Kollek’s latest offering, RESTLESS, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and is an edgy psychological drama that explores the underbelly of contemporary Israeli identity. Also screening at the festival is a special presentation of the mini-series, A TOUCH AWAY, which takes a slice of contemporary Tel Aviv life and spins a marvellous multi-family drama that will leave audiences glued to their seats and wanting to see more. This wonderful series, produced for primetime television in Israel, broke ratings records when broadcast there.
Based on a true story, THE CLOWN AND THE FUHRER tells the story of Charlie Rivel – then Europe’s most famous circus performer – who was dragooned into entertaining the Nazi élite during WW1, including the Fuhrer himself. It is almost too difficult to think of Nazi concentration camps as a place where love could blossom, but the inspirational documentary by Academy Award-nominee Michèle Ohayon, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, shows how the power of love and the ability of humankind can rise above unimaginable suffering.
Dates:
5-23 November - ACMI, Melbourne
6-23 November - GU Bondi Junction Cinemas, Sydney
Tickets:
Opening Night Film & Party $20.00
Single sessions $16.00
Gold Pass $87.50 - valid for any seven different films including Opening Night Film & Party
Bookings:
ACMI – Box Office, Federation Square, Flinders Street or call (03) 8663 2222
Greater Union Bondi Junction Cinemas - Levels 7, 500 Oxford Street, Westfield Bondi Junction or call MCA Ticketing on 1300 306 776 or visit www.mca-tix.com.au
HOLA MEXICAN FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
NATIONAL
The Hola Mexican Film Festival, in its third year this year, will bring a total of 15 fascinating feature films plus a program of shorts to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra throughout November and December.
Several films will recieve their Australian premieres and all films screen in glorious 35mm with English subtitles.
Highlights include:
LADRONES VIEJOS las leyendas del Artegio, (THE OLD THIEVES)- a documentary about a generation of real-life thieves who were famous in 1960s Mexico for their exploits and the wild success they enjoyed in the process. While telling the story of the legendary El Carrizos and other famous outlaws of the time, director Everardo González paints a chilling yet humorous portrait of the Mexican criminal underworld: the delinquents who thrived in the city and, more alarming, their close connections to the authorities who allowed them to continue their business. The thieves recount their story from prison, recalling both the glorified era in which they were virtually unstoppable and the price they eventually had to pay. Nominated for two Ariels, Mexico’s national awards, for best picture and director.
DEFICIT - the directorial debut by actor Gael Garcia Bernal, which is a study of the class system in Mexico centered on a rowdy house party. Cristobal (García Bernal) is a privileged rich boy who loves a good party. Cristobal has made plans for a barbecue at his parents' weekend home, but his younger sister (Camila Sodi) and her friends will be staying at the house that weekend as well. Likewise, gardener Adán (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) has known Cristobal since the two were just children, yet despite being the same age the two old friends have now been drawn into the same system of class consciousness that divides the entire country. While Cristobal has also invited his girlfriend Mafer (Ana Serradilla) to the highly anticipated shindig, a chance meeting with Argentine beauty Dolores (Luz Cipriota) prompts the deceitful lothario to purposefully give Mafer bad directions in order to get better acquainted with the lovely new object of his affections.
LA ZONA - by director Rodrigo Pla. One of the most awarded films of this festival describes one of the biggest real dramas of Mexico. In Mexico, the gap between rich and poor has created a separation both geographically and culturally. In this highly awarded film, Rodrigo Plá tells the story of a fenced-in Mexico City community that is broken in by burglars during one stormy night. After one of the burglars is trapped, the people from La Zona “make justice” on their own terms. Plá weaves plot points to bring together the characters in a shattering final test of the connection between two unlikely allies.
SANGRE DE MI SANGRE - by director Christophe Zalla. Winner of the Best Film at the Sundance Film Festival, SANGRE DE MI SANGRE is an exhilarating and provocative thriller from newcomer Christopher Zalla exposing the dark side of the American dream. A young Mexican immigrant, Pedro (Jorge Adrian Espindola), journeys to New York City in search of the successful father he’s never met only to have his belongings and identity stolen by a conniving thief, Juan (Armando Hernandez). As Pedro is left alone and unable to communicate in a country foreign to him, Juan cons his way into the home of Pedro’s father, Diego (Jesus Ochoa), finding a man just as flawed as he is. While Juan attempts to reinvent himself, Pedro's only hope lies with a mysteriously complex prostitute, Magda (Paola Mendoza), as he frantically searches for his identity back.
PLUS MANY MANY MORE....
DATES:
Sydney - 25 NOV - 7 DEC - DENDY OPERA QUAYS AND DENDY NEWTOWN
Adelaide - 3 - 7 DEC - MERCURY CINEMA
Brisbane - 8 - 14 DEC - DENDY PORTSIDE
Canberra - 11 - 14 DEC - DENDY CANBERRA CENTRE
Melbourne - 15 - 21 DEC - AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE (ACMI) CINEMAS
For more information please visit:
http://holamexicoff.com/
8TH BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
29 NOVEMBER 2008
BONDI BEACH, SYDNEY
8th BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL:
The Bondi Short Film Festival has reached cult status amongst indie filmmakers across Australia. With an eclectic mix of high end quality short films and a devoted audience it is little wonder the event has sold out every year for the past seven years. Guest judges over the years have included Margaret Pomeranz, Martin Fabinyi, Leanne Walsmann, Claudia Karvan, Chris Haywood, Sam Worthington and Brendan Cowell to name a few.
With it’s commitment to independent Australian film the festival has maintained that all film entry to the festival is free. The festival separates itself from other short Film Festivals in Australia by not restricting film makers to a particular theme and ensures that all entries are 100% Australian.
FILMS:
The fifteen finalists for 2008 have been chosen, and the list is now on the festival's website, visit:
http://www.bondishortfilmfestival.com
PRIZES:
Films will be judged across the following categories: Overall BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR (Male/Female), BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST MUSIC/SCORE, BEST SCRIPT, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN. This year the finalists are in the running for some incredible prizes. Thanks to Showtime Australia, the director of BEST FILM will win return flights to North America to any short film festival of their choice. Other prizes include $3000.00 worth of editing time at Spectrum Films Australia and $1000 cash for BEST ACTOR thanks to Core3 Entertainment.
JUDGES:
This year's judges are: Bruce Beresford (Academy Award winning Director for “Driving Miss Daisy”, currently directing “Mao’s Last Dancer”) Benjamin Gilmour (wrote and directed “Son of a Lion”, critically acclaimed feature-length docu-drama released in 2008) Serhat Caradee (wrote and directed “Cedar Boys” which is due for release in 2009, winner Best Film at inaugural Bondi Short Film Festival 2001) Nell Schofield (Film Critic/Reviewer Showtime Australia) Josh Pomeranz (Managing Director, Spectrum Films) and Philippa Whitfield (Director/Producer, Core3 Entertainment)
WHAT: 8th Annual BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
WHERE: BONDI PAVILION, BONDI BEACH
WHEN: Saturday NOVEMBER 29th 2008
For further information: http://www.bondishortfilmfestival.com
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