Dates for Into the Shadows Q&A's
October 22nd 2009 03:11
Join filmmaker Andrew Scarano and leading Australian film industry figures at preview screening and panel discussion in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide
Sydney – The Chauvel Cinema
Sunday October 25 at 5.30pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
John L. Simpson - producer and distributor (The Jammed, Men's Group)
Mark Safarty - CEO and a board director of the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia
Paul Brennan - independent film releasing strategist
Andrew Pike - Australian film exhibitor, distributor and producer (Ronin Films)
www.chauvelcinema.net.au
Melbourne – Cinema Nova
Tuesday October 27 at 6.45pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
Natalie Miller – Australian film exhibitor and distributor (Cinema Nova/Sharmill Films))
Andrew Pike - Australian film exhibitor, distributor and producer (Ronin Films)
Andrea Buck - Executive Producer of The Jammed. The Jammed, winner of the Inside Film Awardfor Best Film in 2007
www.cinemanova.com.au
Adelaide - Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
Wednesday October 28 at 7pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
Richard Harris – CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation
www.cinemanova.com.au/SA/
INTO THE SHADOWS - the new independently made Australian movie that reveals how the corporate formatted mega-multiplexes squashed your friendly local independent cinema. Twenty screens in Sydney alone have closed in the past 10 years! And it features film industry executives making jaw-dropping statements in a movie they would never put into a multiplex!
But, Into The Shadows argues that all is not lost. Ever inventive, our filmmakers are looking at new ways of getting Australian films to Australian audiences, by-passing the mainstream industry.
Independently made by young Australian director Andrew Scarano – whose grandfather was a projectionist at the now closed Electric Shadows cinema in Canberra for 25 years –
INTO THE SHADOWS explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Away from the bright lights, the red carpets and the paparazzi, an awful truth is discovered. The cinema was once a place where Australian culture thrived: audiences were educated, entertained and inspired by Australian stories, characters and landscapes. But now, alarmingly, out of the $895.5 million spent at the Australian box-office in 2008, only $36.6 million (3.8%) was spent on Australian films. Australian films are clearly not connecting with the cinema-going audience. Why?
Sydney – The Chauvel Cinema
Sunday October 25 at 5.30pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
Mark Safarty - CEO and a board director of the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia
Paul Brennan - independent film releasing strategist
Andrew Pike - Australian film exhibitor, distributor and producer (Ronin Films)
www.chauvelcinema.net.au
Melbourne – Cinema Nova
Tuesday October 27 at 6.45pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
Natalie Miller – Australian film exhibitor and distributor (Cinema Nova/Sharmill Films))
Andrew Pike - Australian film exhibitor, distributor and producer (Ronin Films)
Andrea Buck - Executive Producer of The Jammed. The Jammed, winner of the Inside Film Awardfor Best Film in 2007
Adelaide - Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
Wednesday October 28 at 7pm
Panellists:
Andrew Scarano – Writer/Director of Into the Shadows
Richard Harris – CEO of the South Australian Film Corporation
www.cinemanova.com.au/SA/
INTO THE SHADOWS - the new independently made Australian movie that reveals how the corporate formatted mega-multiplexes squashed your friendly local independent cinema. Twenty screens in Sydney alone have closed in the past 10 years! And it features film industry executives making jaw-dropping statements in a movie they would never put into a multiplex!
But, Into The Shadows argues that all is not lost. Ever inventive, our filmmakers are looking at new ways of getting Australian films to Australian audiences, by-passing the mainstream industry.
Independently made by young Australian director Andrew Scarano – whose grandfather was a projectionist at the now closed Electric Shadows cinema in Canberra for 25 years –
INTO THE SHADOWS explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Away from the bright lights, the red carpets and the paparazzi, an awful truth is discovered. The cinema was once a place where Australian culture thrived: audiences were educated, entertained and inspired by Australian stories, characters and landscapes. But now, alarmingly, out of the $895.5 million spent at the Australian box-office in 2008, only $36.6 million (3.8%) was spent on Australian films. Australian films are clearly not connecting with the cinema-going audience. Why?
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