Where #SydFilmFest is joyously back tonight and we talk with Director Nashen Moodley
Category: Interviews
Blue Heeler Film Festival runs With The Times
“The theme of the Pandemic was chosen due to the times we are living in – it’s a great opportunity to see how differently people perceive it and the impacts it has had”
Film Fight Club S5E24: In The Heights & Rhapsody of Love
Where we New York and Newtown with Rhapsody of Love’s Kathy Luu
South African Film Festival opens online this week with vibrant film, doco program
We’re not getting to South Africa anytime soon, so the South African Film Festival brought it here
Inaugural Australian Womens Film Festival & “fighting for other stories to be told”
“The very first year for the second time”
Irish Film Festival Navigates 2020
“Necessity is the mother of invention; back in March the idea of running an online festival seemed beyond our technical capabilities”
Film Fight Club S4E34: Sydney Underground Film Festival + Bill & Ted Face the Music
Where we head underground and online with #SUFF2020 and spend some quality time with quality dudes Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves
Making “The World’s Best Film”
“When I received the news of my diagnosis, I was told to stop everything that I was doing, my job, my studies and my life; I felt like my life was over”
Film Fight Club S4E25: Hyperlinks; A Static Vision Festival & ‘Mukbang’
Where we chat all things Hyperlinks and going online with Static Vision co-founders Felix Hubble & Conor Bateman and discuss issues raised by Sydney Film Festival entry ‘Mukbang’
“We’ve Seen A Real Appetite For Film” – Sydney Film Festival Online
“The response from our audience has been fantastic, we’ve seen a real appetite for film.”
Film Fight Club S4E21: Cornel Ozies on ‘Our Law,’ #SydFilmFest, Film & Festival Updates
Where we chat ‘Our Law’ with Director Cornel Ozies which has its World Premiere today as part of Sydney Film Festival 2020 + all things virtual Sydney Film Festival, ‘Resistance’ and Australian Film Festival, cinema & movie updates
Film Festivals Bridging the Void
“My son turns around to me and says, take it online, go for it”
New Filmmaker Challenges: Festivals Launch Isolation Comps
“The world has never been through a pandemic like this in our lifetime; we want to see what that world looks like from each individual’s perspective”
‘We Are One’ Brings the Many – SFF’s Nashen Moodley on a World of Festivals Brought Together
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for our audience to engage with the culture of these Festivals”
Film Festival Frontiers
“This is our contribution to pushing back against COVID-19”
Festival Live-streams, Innovation, Supporting Cinemas and Each Other
A lot can happen in a week
Film Fight Club S4E6: Fantastic Film Festival, The Invisible Man & Guns Akimbo
Where we chat all things Fantastic Film Festival Australia with Festival Director Hudson Sowada, look through The Invisible Man (in cinemas tomorrow) and take a trip with Dan Radcliffe
‘Audacious and Experimental;’ Hyperlinks Festival expands Static Vision
“When we started Static Vision, our main goal was to bring out audacious and experimental films that were either too small, too challenging or off-the-radar of Sydney’s general Festival circuit”
Capturing “the Fantastic Cinema Spirit;’ Building Fantastic Film Festival Australia
“The thing that I found so exciting about programming the festival was that for a film to be a piece of fantastic cinema it doesn’t need to align with any conventional festival criteria”
8th Persian Film Fest Launches Into Action
“We are proud that the 8th Persian Film Festival is paying a tribute to the strength and resilience of women from Iran and Afghanistan all around the world”
Winda 2019 & Sourcing Indigenous Cinema From Across the Globe
“We have seen a strengthening of stories from around the world playing into genres like horror and really powerful documentaries that hold no punches”
Jojo Rabbit to Close a Packed #JIFF2019
You may as well go out with a bang