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World Film Festivals - by SimonC

World Festival selections - Australian Films

May 29th 2009 06:21
Dean O’Flaherty’s debut feature Beautiful has been invited to screen at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, to run from June 13-21. This comes off the back of a successful international premiere last month at the Newport Beach International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Sales agent Maximum Films has just sold the film to France and all French-speaking European territories, to add to further recent sales to Japan, Poland, Middle East, Russia, Mexico and HBO Eastern Europe. Congratulations to the director Dean O’Flaherty and producer Kent Smith for their recent success.


SAFC supported documentary The Mayor, The Artist, The Farmer and His Wife has recently screened on Al Jazeera. The film was written and directed by Matthew Bate and produced by Noelene Hayes. Please click here for more information about this film.


A few SAFC supported films have been selected to screen at the St Kilda Film Festival. These include documentaries The Love Market directed by Shalom Almond and Talk Derby to Me directed by Aimee Knight and short films The Bully, directed by Shane McNeil, Kind of Man directed by Kelly Schilling and The Garden directed by Jennifer Jones and produced by Sharyn Pancione. The Garden has also been accepted for competition in the best short film category at the Salento International Film Festival in Italy. The film will be screened at the festival in September this year. The St Kilda Film Festival runs from 26 to 31 May 2009. For more information please click here.

Sophie Lowe stars in Beautiful Kate
Feature films Beautiful Kate and Last Ride will join previously announced feature Disgrace to screen in this years Sydney Film Festival.


Beautiful Kate was shot in South Australia early last year with the assistance of the SAFC. The film is Rachel Ward’s feature directorial debut and was produced by Leah Churchill-Brown and Bryan Brown. This screening is Beautiful Kate’s World Premiere. Beautiful Kate is a powerful but tender film about isolation, family, love and guilt.


Last Ride was directed by Cannes winner Glendyn Ivin and produced by Nick Cole and Antonia Barnard. The SAFC actively supported this project from its initial location surveys, through to its production financing, as an investor in partnership with the Adelaide Film Festival. This film was shot entirely in South Australia. To read the films synopsis please click here.

Also, successful short film The Cat Piano has been selected for the 2009 Dendy Awards, which run as part of the Sydney Film Festival program. The festival runs from 3 to 14 June 2009. For more information please click here.


Lastly, feature film My Year Without Sex has been selected to screen in The Edinburgh Film Festival. The Edinburgh Film Festival runs from 17 to 28 June 2009. For more information please click here. The film will be released throughout cinemas in Adelaide on Thursday 28 May.


If you have a film or a film festival that you want me to cover, review or support, email simon@moviecentre.net
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