ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL ROLLS ON
February 12th 2009 06:35
MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX will screen at the Picadilly Theatre Cinema 1 7pm Thursday evening.
Filmmakers from all corners including Iran, China, France, Mexico, Turkey , Hungary and the Czech Republic join regular film established contributing countries New Zealand, USA and UK with over 180 guests poised to work the red carpet and chat with audience members over the 10 days.
Hugo Weaving
Jan Chapman will be the guest of honour at this year’s festival picking up the Don Dunstan Award for Outstanding contribution to Australian Film. With a CV that anyone anywhere in the world would be proud to display, Jan has continued to back some of the most outstanding films of the last 20 years. Some of her films include THE PIANO (1993) which garnered two Academy awards for Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin and was up against IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and eventual winner SCHINDLERS LIST for best picture, LOVE SERENADE and NAKED (1996) and AFI winner LANTANA (2001).
Jan Chapman
Jan will also be in conversation with Andrew Bovell following a FREE screening of LANTANA on Saturday February 21 - 11am at The Mercury Cinema.
Others to attend include BBC’s Frank Boyd, New York curator Laurence Kardish from the Department of Film Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York and Rafael Lozano- Hemmer (winner of two BAFTAs for Interactive Art) who will guest at the ART AND MOVING IMAGE SYMPOSIUM
For a full line up of this year’s festival head to:
www.adelaidefilmfestival.org
For tickets call 1300 727 432
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