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A NIGHT OF HORROR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 PROGRAMME RELEASED

Published by Kyle Goldfinch

Australia’s original and longest-running genre film festival returns to Dendy Cinemas Newtown for their 14th Edition and it’s jam-packed full of nightmare delights! Seventeen features and forty-eight short films from down under and around the globe. Two international short film programs, the festival’s signature Aussie Shorts Gala, plus short films in front of nearly every feature film. All the features are Australian Premieres, including three Australian features, two of them having their World Premieres!  Highlights include, Sylvia Caminer’s whip-smart US psycho-thriller FOLLOW HER plays with our social media obsessions and the ever-increasing threat of surveillance and fragile privacy, featuring a performance from ex-pat Sydneysider Luke Cook that’s one of the year’s best surprises.  Elise Finnerty’s haunting, dream-like tale of two siblings caught up with their own troubled past and the ancestral vices that are weighing heavily, THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN tackles the spectres of paranoia and delusion, and vengeance with a style that smolders.  From Belgium, the festival’s most unusual film will linger long in the mind, LOGGER is a striking, powerful vision, recounting …

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL APPOINTS NEW CEO

Published by Kyle Goldfinch

Sydney Film Festival today announced the appointment of Frances Wallace as its new Chief Executive Officer. Francis Wallace is a global arts leader who has worked in film festivals and cultural organisations in Melbourne, San Francisco and New York will be returning to Australia after 20 years offshore, including 6 years spent as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Frameline film festival. SFF Chair Deanne Weir said ‘After an extremely competitive recruitment process, we are delighted to welcome a leader of Frances’s calibre to the Sydney Film Festival team. Frances has presented the Board with an exciting and energetic vision of future opportunities for the organisation. The combination of Frances, plus our internationally admired Festival Director Nashen Moodley, leading a passionate and dedicated SFF team, will allow us to deliver a compelling 70th Festival in 2023 and build an exciting future in the years ahead.” Frances Wallace said “I am beyond thrilled to join the prestigious Sydney Film Festival as CEO and co-lead alongside the esteemed Festival Director Nashen Moodley. My 20+ years of experience in …

ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES PROGRAMME

Published by Kyle Goldfinch

The program of the 11th Antenna Documentary Film Festival has been announced today, to take place in cinemas across Sydney 14–23 October 2022.  Over the course of 10 days Antenna will once again celebrate the best in documentary cinema from the past year, with 52 of the most creative and thought-provoking documentaries from Australia and around the world.  “I am very proud of this lineup as a whole.” said Festival Director David Rokach. “Each documentary is imaginative, cinematic and provocative and I believe together they demonstrate the endless potential of documentary cinema in the hands of a great filmmaker.” said Antenna’s Festival Director, David Rokach.  Opening the festival is the Australian Premiere of Retrograde by Academy Award nominated director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts), which just had its world premiere at  Telluride Film Festival. The film follows the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, capturing the turmoil as American troops pull out. A heart-wrenching look at the aftermath of the controversial end to the “forever war”. Away from the cinema, Antenna …

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FAMILY PROGRAMME

Published by Kyle Goldfinch

The 69th Sydney Film Festival announces three family-friendly feature films and 8 shorts that will screen as part of the Family Program. Youngsters will be able to enjoy fun flicks from around the globe with 2022’s fantastic Family Program. Feature-length offerings include the highly entertaining superhero tale Super Furball Saves the Future, about a young girl who must save the world from a future without bees,” said Family Films Programmer Katharine Rogers.“A Sundance crowd-pleaser for all ages, Vietnamese sci-fi charmer Maika is about a lonely eight-year-old who befriends an alien visitor and joins the creature to outwit the unscrupulous baddies trying to capture her. Screening alongside Maika is the short film Laika and Nemo, a touching story about feeling like an outsider.” Ride the Wave is an exhilarating documentary following Scottish surf champion Ben Larg who at just 12-years-old, has a dream to ride the biggest, most dangerous cold-water waves in the world,” she said. This year will also feature a special short film program for younger children, with films that delve into themes of nature and identity. Australian short films include Apart, about two artists finding …