12 FILM PREMIERES ON THE WAY FOR MELBOURNE FILM FESTIVAL
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Premiere Fund has confirmed a slate of 12 films, with a six-film line-up for 2008 and a further six for 2009. Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings said the MIFF Premiere Fund, which received $1.6 million from the Brumby Government last year, now has 12 films which are fully financed.
(Media-Newswire.com) - The Melbourne International Film Festival ( MIFF ) Premiere Fund has confirmed a slate of 12 films, with a six-film line-up for 2008 and a further six for 2009.
Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings said the MIFF Premiere Fund, which received $1.6 million from the Brumby Government last year, now has 12 films which are fully financed.
“The aim of the MIFF Premiere Fund is to provide financial support to Victorian films to assist their production and premiere at Australia’s most popular film festival,” Mr Jennings said.
“The MIFF Premiere Fund boosts local production by providing more opportunities for Victorian filmmakers to bring their stories to the big screen and these films also benefit from an international showcase through their association with the film festival.”
Melbourne International Film Festival ( MIFF ) Executive Director Richard Moore said the premiere of six new local feature documentaries from the Premiere Fund at MIFF 2008 will greatly enrich the MIFF 2008 line-up for audiences at Australia’s largest film festival.
“The debut of these Premiere Fund titles will be a significant day for MIFF as the festival takes its long standing relationship with Victorian filmmakers to a new level and opens an exciting pipeline of new local content for 2008 and 2009 film festivals and beyond,” Mr Moore said.
MIFF 2008 ( 25 July – 10 Aug ) includes six premieres of feature-length documentaries: CELEBRITY: DOMINIC DUNNE: ( Directors: Tim Jolley & Kirsty De Garis ) Set against the backdrop of the Phil Spector trial, Celebrity travels through a world intrigue, showbiz, the American justice system and the all-pervasive cult of celebrity, while giving the inside scoop through Australian eyes on Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne. NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: ( Director: Mark Hartley ) A celebration of 1970s Oz-ploitation cinema featuring Quentin Tarantino, Barry Humphries and Jamie Lee Curtis. BASTARDY: ( Director/Writer: Amiel Courtin-Wilson ) An adventurous portrait of Jack Charles, a well-known personality on the streets of Melbourne, colourful fringe-dweller and sometime actor, that journeys into a little-seen side of Melbourne. ANGEL OF THE WIND: ( Director: Tahir Cambis ) An exploration of the world of acting, spirituality, national identity and ghosts of the past through the prism of a surrealist vaudevillian theatrical production concerning the spirits of dead Kamikaze pilots. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN: ( Director: Scott Millwood ) Explores the story of Brenda Hean, one of the world’s first leaders of an environmental party, and her fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedder which ends abruptly with her mysterious disappearance in 1972. ROCK & ROLL NERD: ( Director/Writer: Rhian Skirving ) A rags to riches observational documentary following Melbourne musician and performance artist Tim Minchin. MIFF 2009 includes five feature films and one feature-length documentary: BRAN NUE DAE: ( Director: Rachel Perkins ) An adaptation of a popular Aboriginal musical , the film is an upbeat coming-of-age, romantic musical and 1960s road movie featuring the choreography of Stephen Page. BLESSED: ( Director: Ana Kokkinos ) Based on the acclaimed Melbourne play Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? Blessed is an evocative feature film about mothers and children, about love and beauty, about being lost and finding your way home. THE LOVED ONES: ( Director: Sean Byrne ) The feature debut of Sean Byrne, whose short film Advantage was selected for Sundance 2008, Loved Ones tells the story of a young man In rural Victoria digging himself out his own grave. BALIBO: ( Director: Robert Connolly ) A political thriller on war correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta in East Timor investigating the 1975 murders of the Balibo Five. THE LAST MAN: ( Director: Fred Schepisi ). A group of soldiers trapped on their final Vietnam mission do whatever it takes to survive and, 12 years later, continue to suffer the emotional consequences. INDONESIA CALLING – JORIS IVENS IN AUSTRALIA: ( Director: John Hughes ) A documentary charting the birth of the Indonesian Republic and the impact of Australian unions and foreign policy, a rogue Film Commissioner and an emerging film industry at a moment of crisis at the end of the age of Empire.
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