“Our Festival is perfectly positioned soon after the Toronto and London film festivals so we’re able to really get the latest in British films and the best that are available.” British Film Festival Curator Kim Petalas […]
Category: Festivals
PASIFIKA FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NIGEL VAGANA ON FINDING NEW WAYS TO TELL STORIES
“It’s actually the only one of its kind in the country and we searched around the world and its actually the only one of its kind.” Pasifika Film Festival Director and Rugby League legend Nigel […]
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 20TH YEAR
‘’The Festival offers all the latest films out of Japan, films that aren’t more than 18 months old, films that will have their release in Japan right before the Festival starts; in terms of being […]
THE FUTURE OF THE SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL
“I saw in the marketplace so many sci-fi films barely getting a release in Australia so I thought let’s switch it up.” New Festival Director and also FilmInk publisher Dov Kornits sat down to discuss […]
A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ON FINDING NEW CLASSICS
“One of my great joys is finding a film that is very new on the genre circuit or is only literally just starting the genre circuit and presenting it to an audience long ahead of […]
ANTENNA FESTIVAL DIRECTOR RICH WELCH ON THE CHANGING FACE OF DOCUMENTARIES
“For me a great film’s a great film whether its 2D or 3D or virtual reality, that doesn’t change, but the way filmmakers are telling the story does change.” Antenna Documentary Film Festival Director Rich […]
SYDNEY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ON NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMERGING FILMMAKERS
“When you come you will see films with all sorts of budgets, there are some films with about a half-a-million-dollar budget and there are some that are very independent that are made with nothing; its […]
IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO MAKE A FILM – “VIXEN VELVET’S ZOMBIE MASSACRE”
“It was kind of this communal snowball in a weird way where I was pulling all these voices together.” Following the screening of Vixen Velvet’s Zombie Massacre at this year’s Sydney Underground Film Festival, Festival […]
AAAAAAAAH!
Did a disease wipe out our collective consciousness and set us back eons on the evolutionary scale? Did we ever really develop as a species beyond a simian mentality? Are a group of people in […]
WIENER-DOG
It’s OK to laugh. Such advice proves prudent with Wiener-Dog, Todd Solondz’s sickly dark comedy about an adorable canine who flits between a motley crew of eccentric homes and owners. Unassuming and always attentive, Wiener-Dog, […]
THE MIND’S EYE
The Mind’s Eye starts out like a lot of other films. It is not like other films. Zack vagrantly wanders through the wilderness until he is set upon by two cops. Pretty standard, until he […]
DIRECTOR THORSTEN SCHUTTE ON NEW FRANK ZAPPA BIOPIC
“If you have a close look at all this material and really see him evolve over the years, a whole different Zappa emerges from the one the general public seems to know.” Filmmaker Thorsten Schutte […]
“THE WORLD’S WORST FILMMAKER” HAS SHUT DOWN A SCREENING AT A SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Watching a movie about the “worst film ever made” sounds like a terrible idea… but is it so terrible that it’s actually good? Unfortunately, audiences at the Sydney Underground Film Festival won’t get the chance […]
DIRECTOR BEN FERRIS ON ’57 LAWSON’
“About three years ago now, I started to have this niggling feeling that these buildings wouldn’t be around forever.” Sydney Film School Artistic Director Ben Ferris sat down to chat about his new film 57 Lawson […]
DIRECTOR ANDRES WAISSBLUTH ON ‘ELEPHANT: THE HORSE’/’UN CABALLO LLAMADO ELEFANTE’
“I decided to make a film for children and I started thinking about my childhood, my images, my fantasies, how was my childhood different – that imagery, it’s the imagery of my generation.” Chilean filmmaker […]
DIRECTOR FRANCISCO VARONE TALKS ‘ROAD TO LA PAZ’/’CAMINO A LA PAZ’
“I love comedies, I love to be able to do really funny films, making the audiences laugh is something very interesting and very difficult, but at the same time I wanted to have a serious […]
SF3 CO-FOUNDER ANGELA BLAKE & 2016 WINNERS ON PROMOTING GRASSROOTS AUSSIE FILMMAKING
“After about a minute your brain kicks and you think, oh wow, and when you start to realise what’s happening it’s a beautiful thing and you’re so engaged.” With the second annual Sydney SmartFone Flick […]
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU TALKS SUFF 2016
“It’s a little bit arty, a little bit weirdo, a little bit cult, a little bit horror.” Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) Director Stefan Popescu and the team are gearing up for their 2016 outing […]
SMARTFONE FLICK FEST (SF3) 2016 WRAPS IN SYDNEY
“For $12 a month you can buy an iPhone and put this on the screen.” The second annual SmartFone Flick Fest screened it’s top ten finalists last night at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington, […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
FEAR ITSELF
A film that goes bump in the night, Fear Itself is an excellent, extensive, feature visual essay on the cogs and spurs that go into making any good horror flick. Presented with deliberately unnerving narration, […]
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