Film News
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Short and Curly
A mixed bag of shorts from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia screens tomorrow night (July 3) at Darlinghurst's perennial brain food bar, Tap Gallery. Join some of the filmmakers and the Caught Short curatorial team for a drink from 7pm. Screening starts at 7.30pm. For details, go to Film Caught Short
Exhume and resume!
As documentary film production hub Film Australia begins it's final transformation into Screen Australia, curators and archivists are unearthing seven decades' worth of hidden treasures from film festivals around the world. Kilometres of footage are being digitised. The powers that be have found time to parcel out final funds to the brilliant series about natural selection, Darwin's New World; the definitive history of surfing culture in Australia, Bombora; the story of one teenager falsely accused of rape, Every Family's Nightmare; and Life At 5, checking in with eleven families and their babies, over seven years.
Getting Squared
Book ahead for an Edgerton evening when Popcorn Taxi screens The Square, which was finished just in time to compete at the Sydney Film Festival in June. Director Nash and writer/star/brother Joel will stay for a Q&A with the audience. Go to Popcorn Taxi to secure seats.
Popular choice
After the jury agonised over first prize for the inaugural Sydney Film Festival competition (which went to Steve McQueen's Hunger, with mentions for Matt Newton's Three Blind Mice and Vincent Ward's The Rain of Children), it was a relief to roll out the World Movies Channel Audience Awards.
Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini's sexy insect tales (created for mobile phone), won short film accolades from the audience at the State Theatre - which also voted Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, best feature. The Telstra MobileMovies Award for a one-minute mobile phone film went to Jason van Genderen's My Town is Broken, an ode to Gosford made entirely of street signs.