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19th St. George Bank Brisbane International
Film Festival – News
13 November 2010
SPECIAL TICKET OFFER for the last two days of BIFF
St.George BIFF is happy to announce the BIFF BUSTER - 4 tickets for $50 (no concessions) - your last chance to enjoy the festival!
www.stgeorgebiff.com.au for more information.
11 November 2010
BIFF FLASH!
Local cult maestro Andrew Leavold confirmed to lead the special one off screening of THE ROOM. Andrew will guide you through all the activities and actions you need to perform before the screening starts. Become an initiate into the mysteries of THE ROOM - an interactive cinema experience only for the truly demented.
THE ROOM – USA 99mins
"Is this the worst movie ever made?" - Guardian
This is your chance to participate in Tommy Wiseau's indescribable 2003 film in all its glory - a piece of cinema so transcendentally awful that it has become a cult phenomenon, rivaling movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show for fan devotion. Audiences around the world have embraced the terribleness of Wiseau's 'masterpiece', regularly attending sessions dressed up as their favourite characters, to hurl insults and plastic cutlery at the screen.
Replete with curious plot holes, strange editing choices and uncomfortable sex scenes, and featuring a bizarre performance from Wiseau himself, The Room is a truly unforgettable film.
Bring a sense of the absurd and a willingness to participate in the mayhem; plastic spoons and an outrageous cinema experience will be provided.
Sat 12 Nov 12.15am Tribal Theatre 1 (Late Friday night)
09 November 2010
BIFF FLASH! Not enough Jucy
Due to audience demand there will be an additional screening of Brisbane's very own JUCY. Your second chance to catch Cindy Nelson and Francesca Gasteen in the very Brisbane made film, JUCY.
Saturday 13 Nov 12pm Barracks Cinema 1
Check out the vodcast of Jucy Gala Australian Premiere at Barracks here!
- Vodcasts in BIFF are produced by Ben Robinson, David Beirne and Matt Grehan.
GASLAND IN BRISLAND
GASLAND with director Josh Fox in attendance attracted a packed house and the 7.30 report from ABC TV. Tape the program segment tonight while you are going to one of BIFF's screenings!
Remember you saw it first at BIFF!
07 November 2010
Your chance to vote for the best Queensland short film!
Most of the films are showing in the Queen St Mall - come down and have a look and then vote on the Brisbane times website.
The film with the most number of votes wins the $2,500 cash award - announced on Closing Night
Go to this link to vote.
05 November 2010
Queensland Short Filmmaker's Competition
This year's competition will showcase 6 films made by our very own Queensland born and bred filmmakers. Come to the screening on Saturday at Tribal Theatre 12pm and you'll be the judge! The best Queensland Short film will win $2,500 prize money! Vote on brisbanetimes.com.au for your favourite film.
Titles include
1. Bottle
2. Futility
3. Glen Owen Dodds
4. Not A Willing Participant
5. On and Off the Road
6. Pushbike
7. The Ration Shed
QSFC Screening dates – Saturday 6 Nov 12pm Tribal Theatre 2
04 November 2010
Today marks the official opening day of the 19th St.George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival! Opening the festival is the much loved resident of Queensland - Cane Toads - and what better way to start the festival than to have them up close and personal in 3D! St.George Bank BIFF is happy to announce special 2 for 1 offers on selected sessions for this weekend - go to our website.
Partridge's Picks
LOVERS of short films can enjoy a 95-minute program of recent Australian shorts as a BIFF highlight at the Palace Centro Cinema in James St, Fortitude Valley, at 2pm on Sunday. The program includes the remarkable black and white Cannes selection, Deeper Than Yesterday, centred on the male crew of a Russian submarine, but actually made in Melbourne.
Remarkable atmosphere and tension is created by director Ariel Kleiman in just 20 minutes, and his expert craftsmanship points to a future career in feature films. Other stand-out films in this section of the shorts program include When the Wind Changes (Alethea Jones), The Kiss (filmed in South Australia by Ashlee Page), and The Lost Thing (narrated by Tim Minchin).
International shorts fall under the spotlight on Tuesday, November 9 at 6.30pm at the Centro, reprised at the Barracks at 2pm on Friday, November 12. The 94 minute selection of eight films offers new filmmakers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Slovenia, New Zealand, Germany, and Brazil. Two that stand out are The Terms, made in the U.K., and the German drama, Drop Dead! There's loads of fresh talent on show in this remarkable line-up. BIFF this year is also offering a distinctive program of short films that offer a view of the world through the eyes of children, showcasing at Centro on November 9 at 9pm.
Headed by the surprising The Birthday Circle (U.K.), this unique 95 minute program that should be a must for film students also features new works from Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.A. BIFF tickets can be ordered on line, or purchased from the ticket box in the Queen St Mall near the stage, and at Tribal Theatre (the former Dendy) in George St.
Des Partridge
23 October 2010
BIFF's Jucy slice of womance
Just when the world was getting used to the Bromance, a film about two real-life besties from Bardon slaps another genre down on the table. Enter the 'womance,' a new breed of romantic comedy based around the real-life relationship between two Brisbane actresses and the film that tributes them.
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But director Louise Alston reveals Jucy is more than a fictional BFF brand name – like all good love stories, this one is based on a true story. The second instalment in what she describes as a “trilogy of quarter-life-crisis films,” Alston says she encountered the “Jucygirls” Francesca Gasteen and Cindy Nelson while filming Jucy's prequel of sorts, All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.
Upon learning Nelson shared a suburban house and unique relationship with friend and fellow actor Gasteen, Alston says she soon realised their story had screen potential.
“I wanted to make a film with the resources I already had,” Alston says. “I loved the idea about a romantic comedy about girlfriends because it's such a rich legitimate relationship and theirs was really true and really existed.”
Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim and set to make its Australian debut at the Brisbane International Film Festival, Alston believes the Jucy story strikes a chord with audiences because of its “fresh take” on female relationships. Often rivals or sisters, dysfunctional mothers and daughters or accessories to male protagonists, there are many cliches of negatively skewed women in film. But just as the bromance genre redefined the way men were 'allowed' to be written, so too has Jucy 'liberated' the cinematic composition of girls on screen and the language of real-life woman-love.
“You say 'womantic comedy' [people] smile because they recognise that kind of relationship - they've been in one or they're mothers have or they know a womantic couple.” Alston says.
“That relationship is really part of the social fabric, particularly as the concept of what constitutes a traditional family changes. You've got a lot of relationships that are starting to be recognised.”
Familiar concept it may be, the 'womance,' as such, is still a relatively foreign pop-culture concept for some – much like elements of Jucy's very Australian vernacular to the untrained ear.
“Yes, they didn't know what 'root' meant,” Alston laughs as an Australian director might when their very domestic work receives the exotica treatment at the hands of foreign, English speaking critics.
“But they seemed to like it and I can't wait to see what everyone here thinks when they see it at BIFF.”
Jucy will make its Australian premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival with a gala screening at Palace Barracks, November 5. BIFF, of which brisbanetimes.com.au is a proud sponsor, runs from November 4 to 14 with tickets and more information available via the website.
Contribute to the BIFF discussion on twitter via #biffreviews.
Article from www.brisbanetimes.com.au
by Katherine Feeney
23 October 2011
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pool...
“Don't go into the water” may have been Steven Speilberg's famous warning, but that won't stop new Brisbane International Film Festival director Richard Moore. Refusing to heed the ominous Jaws tagline, Moore has decided to stage a shark horror spectacular in the last place he should.
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He said film festivals were meant to be fun and atmospheric and predicted the event would be a hot-ticket item. But there were challenges associated with staging a screening in a swimming pool, beyond the obvious slippery-when-wet hazards.
“[Like] trying to make sure there will be enough Vodka on the night so the parents can enjoy themselves and making sure the weather is good,” Moore said.
“I will definitely be there on the night and will even be tempted to put on my bathers - I mean, who wouldn't want to watch a shark movie in the water?”
Centenary Pool manager Jenny Green said they had staged poolside cinema before, but that this event would be their biggest yet.
She said patrons would have the option of sitting on the bleachers or braving the water with flotation devices. Duncan Kennedy, the screenwriter of Deep Blue Sea, said the idea was novel but wasn't sure whether he'd be ready for a watery, shark-film experience.
Having grown up on the Sunshine Coast before opportunity took him overseas, Kennedy said his own shark encounters helped him develop the idea for the script. He recalled one occasion during his childhood at Port Cartwright when a drowned man was pulled from the surf by an “classic, kind of overweight cop” after spending time submerged as shark food.
“I mean he was missing his arms and legs and everything because those sharks had been gnawing at him for a while,” Kennedy said.
“The real inspiration for the film came after my girlfriend and I hired a boat at Great Keppel Island while everyone else was scared off by some hammerhead sharks feeding offshore.
“We'd figured, we'd paid for the boat so we may as well take it out but then the water started getting pretty choppy and we began having second thoughts – what would have happened if we'd fallen in?”
The Dive-in Cinema Jaws and Deep Blue Sea double feature takes place at the Splash Leisure Centenary Fitness Centre, Spring Hill, on Saturday November 6.
Tickets $15 to $40 available via the BIFF website. The event is part of the Brisbane International Film Festival, November 4 to 14, of which brisbanetimes.com.au are proud sponsors. Contribute to the BIFF discussion on twitter via #biffreviews.
Article in www.smh.com.au
Reported by Katherine Feeney
2 September 2010
CURTAIN REOPENS ON ‘NEW LOOK’ BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Screen Queensland CEO Maureen Barron, has today announced QUEENSLAND’S premiere film festival – the St.George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) - is set to unveil a new look with a new Spring timeslot, festival director, venues and refreshed programming and awards.
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This year BIFF will be held between November 4 - 14 designed to align it with the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) held annually on the Gold Coast in December. “We look forward to announcing more details of this year’s BIFF programme over the coming weeks.”
Screen Queensland’s new Head of Screen Culture, and acclaimed former Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, Richard Moore, has announced this year’s festival will be staged across three venues - Palace Centro in the Valley, Palace Barracks at Petrie Terrace and the Tribal Theatre in Brisbane City.
“It’s the beginning of a new era for the festival and one that we’re really excited about.” Mr Moore said. One of the Festival components to receive a significant makeover this year is the Queensland Short Film Competition (QSFC), a program designed to reward and develop the creative talents of Queensland short filmmakers.
The judges and audience awards of previous years will be maintained and joined by a new award for best project pitch for a new project and short film. The new award, to be called the Chauvel Award, will attract a development investment of $15,000 from Screen Queensland. This joins two other awards being the Kinetone Award for Best Short Film with a cash prize of $2,500 and the Audience Favourite Award, cash prize $2,500.
Since its inception in 1992, more than 400,000 film-goers have experienced BIFF with it growing in size and reputation to become one of the most respected film festivals in Australia.
Tickets for this year’s festival go on sale on October 21. For more information about St.George Bank BIFF, visit www.stgeorgebiff.com.au
Brisbane International Film Festival 2010
Dates and Venues:
Brisbane 04–14/11/10 Palace Barracks Cinema, Palace Centro Cinemas and Tribal Theatre
Event ticket: See BIFF website for ticketing options
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