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World Film Festivals - September 2008

Actors Wanted for low budget film!

September 30th 2008 12:10
This is too late for open audition (only recieved email today), but anyone interested can send in their XCV and have a shot. Break a proverbial!
Send this on to anyone you think may be interested!

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SPAA Fringe presents the World Premiere of Hairtales

September 30th 2008 06:47
24 - 25 October 2008 Paddington Town Hall, Chauvel Cinema & Metro Screen, Sydney

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Australian Animation and Effects Festival - last calls

September 29th 2008 16:03
Very late new, but only just became aware of this. Anyone you know may be interested please forward on ASAP.

The AEAF Awards Enter online
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Poitier to be honoured at Chicago FF

September 29th 2008 06:42

In just under three weeks, the CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to OSCAR® - winning actor Sidney Poitier at the Black Perspectives Tribute as part of their 44th annual festival. Held at the Chase Auditorium, the ceremony will take a look back on the career of one of the finest actors of his generation and the groundbreaking roles and performances he has been a part of since the 50’s.

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New Babylon - Shostakovich!

September 26th 2008 07:11
SBS Youth Orchestra perform the original Dmitri Shostakovich score!
Russian Expressionist Cinema - SPECIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE Sunday 9th November, 4pm

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Sydney again on the FRINGE

September 25th 2008 07:39
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October 24/25 2008
This years SPAA Fringe is almost here and the lineup is as impressive as ever. Once again the two day festival held at Sydneys Chauvel over the weekend of the 24th and 25th of October will play host to one on one workshpops with industry professionals, panel discussions and film screenings as well as the chance to network not only with industry professionals, but with emerging independent filmmakers and enthusiast as well


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ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL submission call!

September 24th 2008 16:36

The acclaimed biennial Adelaide Film Festival is one of the youngest but most dynamic and innovative film festivals in the world, with a program including special events, live performance and the premiere of films commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.

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FRIDAY ON MY MIND - 5pm Every Friday at AFTRS

September 24th 2008 07:28
Every Friday at 5pm take the chance to hear from interesting people from our screen culture talk about their passion with knowledge and insight!
Friday on My Mind talks are the perfect way to wrap up the working week and connect with like minded souls and its FREE.
Different guest speakers every week.
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RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009

September 23rd 2008 16:28
1-12 October.

The 16th annual Raindance Film Festival is set to explode this year with a sensational line up of Domestic and International films throughout the two week event.
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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL OPENS THIS WEDNESDAY

September 23rd 2008 07:40
The 2008 Italian Film Festival now in its ninth year opened in Melbourne last Wednesday with a Gala screening of ‘Tutta la Vita Davanti’ (Her Whole Life Ahead) at Cinema Como in Melbourne’s South Yarra and for a moment there you could have sworn that they had resettled the nearby suburb of Carlton for a celebration of all things Italian most of all its cinema.

HER WHOLE LIFE AHEAD is a very clever satire that centres on the lives, loves and struggles of employees at an Italian Call Centre. Isabelle Ragonese (a name you will see a lot more on both Italian and International credits in the coming future) plays Marta, a philosophy student working in the call centre after a chance encounter with a young working mother (Sabrina Ferilli) while she searches for work in her chosen field. A biting satire on Italian society, director Paolo Virzi is not afraid to say what’s on his mind.
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BLESSED BEGINS.

September 22nd 2008 07:10
The third collaboration between director Ana Kokkinos and writer Andrew Bovell, BLESSED is set to begin filming this November in Melbourne. Based on the the critically fêted play ‘Who’s Afraid of the Working Class’ the film links together four stories which follow the emotional and gripping misadventures of six children as they wander the streets over a period of 24 hours.

BLESSED also reunites Kikkinos with producer Al Clark (PRISCILLA, CHOPPER) as well as bringing on board Internationally renowned editor Jill Bilcock and award winnining cinematographer Geoff Burton to headline an impressive production team.
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SUNDAY CLASSICS at the CHAUVEL

September 18th 2008 06:45
SUNDAYS @ 4PM - TICKETS $11.00 - Curated by Sam Fielder.

Once again it's on this Sunday with the brilliant classic HEAVENS GATE starring Kris Kristofferson ( I remember him better from CONVOY) and the Academy Award winner Christopher Walken. Surely you wouldnt want to miss this


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Review: The Tender Hook

September 17th 2008 16:53
RELEASE DATE: September 18
RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes
RATING: M


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New York Film Festival to screen Kiwi short.

September 17th 2008 07:24
Katie Wolfe’s New Zealand short film This Is Her has been selected to screen in official selection at the 46th New York Film Festival later this month after premiering in North America at the prestigious 35th Telluride Film Festival last weekend.

This follows nominations for This Is Her in all four short film categories of the New Zealand Qantas Film and Television Awards including Best Short Film


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FRIDAY ON MY MIND - 5pm Every Friday at AFTRS

September 16th 2008 16:28
Every Friday at 5pm for the chance to hear from interesting people from our screen culture talk about their passion with knowledge and insight!

Friday on My Mind talks are the perfect way to wrap up the working week and connect with like minded souls and its FREE.
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‘The Jammed’ for free!

September 16th 2008 07:18
In a landmark move that will surely be copied in years to come, the producers of Australian indie film The Jammed have launched a website to allow AFI voters to download a high quality version of the film for free.

After the Australian Film Institute announced earlier this year it had made several changes to its awards criteria for the feature film category, The Jammed was allowed to join the ranks of eligible films in contention for the 2008 awards.
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Cambridge Film Festival Outdoors!

September 15th 2008 16:42
Don't miss out on the Festival's innovative series of outdoor events!

Film on the River
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LOVE MAKING FILM FESTIVAL

September 15th 2008 07:16
So you want to make a film?

The lovemakingfilmfestival is looking for films of under 3 minutes. They should be hilarious, quirky, clever, creative and help share a safe sex message! It could be a 15 second gag filmed on your mobile phone, a 35mm bollywood style extravaganza, or a 2 minute animation masterpiece - whatever you like! There are unique categories and fantastic prizes. So register now, get your Entrant's Kit, and start filming...
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RICHARD SPECIAL SCREENING ANNOUNCED!

September 13th 2008 05:20
Sydney Film School & Siren Visual present
Tuesday 16th September, 6:45pm
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
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2008 DigiSPAA Competition - ONLY 2 WEEKS TO GO!

September 11th 2008 16:59
WIN $15,000 cash and $20,000 worth of post production sponsored by MOVIE NETWORK

September 19, 2008 marks 'd' day for all aspiring filmmakers to enterthe prestigious DigiSPAA competition and have the chance to win $15,000cash and $20,000 worth of post-production, a guaranteed screening of
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SUNDAY CLASSICS

September 11th 2008 06:43
SUNDAYS @ 4PM - TICKETS $11.00 - Curated by Sam Fielder.


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AWG extends deadline for screenplays!

September 10th 2008 06:50
The Australian Writers' Guild has extended the deadline for entries for the fourth biennial INSITE Competition for Unproduced Feature Screenplays which is presented by the AWG in association with the Adelaide Film Festival.

The winning screenplay will receive a rehearsed public reading during the National Screenwriters’ Conference, to be held in conjunction with the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival. The winning writer will receive travel to Adelaide to participate in rehearsals and a cash prize of $2,500. A shortlist of screenplays will also be sent for to a number of Australian producers and distribution companies.
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FRIDAY ON MY MIND -

September 10th 2008 00:32
5pm Every Friday at AFTRS

Here is the lineup for FOMM for the month of September. I hope some of you got a chance to get along.If you aren't from Sydney and you know of another similar event held on a regular basis let me know and i will get it out there for you. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. Let's let everyone know
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RAW NERVE 08.

September 9th 2008 16:24
Metro Screen has joined forces with Screen Australia the pre-eminent film authority for the sixth annual RAW NERVE film mentorship assisting emerging filmmakers as they attempt to egt their short films out into the public domain.

With applications now being accepted until October 10 Metro Screen is looking for filmmakers who want to try to hit that raw nerve to submit their ideas just like Simon Blyth did two years ago.
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OZASIA ON SCREEN

September 9th 2008 06:22
17 September – 24 September

For the first time, the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival in association with the Media Resource Centre presents OzAsia On Screen, a selection of documentaries, shorts and feature films showcasing the scope of screen culture throughout the region. The filmmakers will be in attendance at two special screenings during the festival for Q&A sessions.
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FLICKERFEST INT’L FILM FESTIVAL

September 8th 2008 14:53
FLICKERFEST INT’L FILM FESTIVAL


9TH – 18TH January 2009
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12 CANOES ONLINE TODAY!

September 8th 2008 05:47
We are the first people of our lands.
These are some of our stories from where we have lived for so long
We welcome you to know about us, about our culture, this way


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Call for doco submissions!

September 7th 2008 05:32
Screen Australia and SBS Television have called for proposals for a new multicultural history documentary series.

The series is set to examine the stories of multicultural Australia through the immigration policies of this and the last century and will be funded by the new government agency Screen Australia’s National Interest Program


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Toronto Film Festival in motion.

September 6th 2008 12:37
The festvities began last Thursday and the full line-up for the Toronto Film Festival has been released with six Australian features being selected to screen at this years festival.

In a release from Screen Australia, Tait Brady Executive Director Marketing Support and Promotions of the newly formed agency Screen Australia was quick to touch upon the fact that all six films had received financing from either Screen Oz or its predecessors the FFC and AFC. Following up on the success of many of these films during the domestic film festival season in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the films will screen across four different categories which include the Not Quite Hollywood in the midnight madness section and Matthew Newton’s directorial debut feature Three Blind Mice’ screening in the discovery section of the festival. Others include Real to Reel and Special Presentations sections.
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ACE Film Festival on Now!

September 6th 2008 05:16
Anyone wanting to get out and about to see something different to the usual in New York might want to have a look at heading in the direction of Times Square this weeekend.After sifting through over 850 entries from across the country, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) proudly presents the 2008 ACE Film Festival program. The event is set to take place September 4-7 in the main theater of New World Stages located at 340 West 50th Street - just steps from Times Square.

The 2008 ACE Film Festival program line-up includes 40 films total with 4 World Premieres, 10 East Coast Premieres and 12 New York City Premieres in the mix. Tickets only $10!
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ROOFTOP FILMS FREE THIS WEEKEND!

September 5th 2008 07:45
This weekend the gang at rooftop films are throwing open the doors to one and all for a weekend that looks set to sizzle with a MORELIA Film Festival documentay La Frontera Infinata on Friday night for a measly $9 followed by Saturday Night rolling to a different beat with the Iranina documentary Arisa - Persian Wedding. Saturday's film is also free of charge so why not try a little bit of someone elses culture this weekend and get along if you live in The Big Apple!

Friday, Sept. 5th, 2008
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CLASSICS AT THE CHAUVEL

September 4th 2008 17:37
SUNDAYS @ 4PM - TICKETS $11.00 - Curated by Sam Fielder.

Sunday 7 September
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FRIDAY ON MY MIND -

September 4th 2008 07:36
5pm Every Friday at AFTRS

Registration for Friday on My Mind is not necessary - just turn up to Theatre 1 at 5pm and take a seat!
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96 Countries receive Entry Forms for 2008 Foreign Language Film Oscar®

September 2nd 2008 17:20
Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mailed Foreign Language Film award entry forms to 96 countries, facilitating their submissions for the 81st Academy Awards®.

To qualify for the 2008 Awards, a film must be released in the submitting country between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2008, and be publicly screened in 35mm or 70mm film or in a qualifying digital cinema format for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theater.
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$86 million funding approved for OZ productions.

September 2nd 2008 07:15
Screen Australia’s board met in Brisbane recently and approved a range of projects in all major areas of production.

In total 25 projects were approved for funding during August, with a production value of $86 million including four features, one adult TV drama, four children’s dramas, 13 documentaries (four of which are series), one commissioned production and two projects from Screen Australia’s Indigenous Branch.
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KEEP YOUR WITS ABOUT YOU

September 1st 2008 16:24
A feature film concept development workshop

Screen Australia, together with Warp X and Madman Entertainment, will run Keep Your
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Kinetone Award announced.

September 1st 2008 07:14
Gary Keir has been awarded the annual Kinetone Award for his commitment and contribution to emerging filmmakers in Queensland. The award is nominated and voted by members the Queensland film indYour text goes hereustry, and presented annually at the Brisbane International Film Festival, to recognise active encouragement of new filmmakers. Arts Minister Rod Welford presented the award to Gary Keir before an audience of his peers at The Regent Cinema.

Mr Welford said "Queensland has many talented filmmakers eager to break into the industry, and the guidance they receive from experienced professionals is invaluable. This award recognises those more experienced film professionals who devote their time and expertise to assisting emerging filmmakers, and ensure the sustainability and quality of Queensland's film industry. "
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