Film Shorts
In Sydney film news this week we have canoes, mice, East Timor, and mullets!
By Ruth Hessey
Log On
The smash hit Australian film Ten Canoes has spawned a series of new Canoes. Director Rolf de Heer and digital media practitioner Molly Reynolds collaborated with the Yolngu people of the Arafura swamp to create 12 Canoes - a web-based multimedia project of 12 linked short subjects that illustrate the people, history culture and place of the Yolngu people of north central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The film premiered at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia on 1 July 2008. What next? Thirteen Canoes!
Big One
Matthew Newton has made headlines again, but it's all good. Newton's feature film Three Blind Mice has been officially selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Brisbane International Film Festival. It's just the beginning for one of the best Australian films of recent years.
It's a Kino party!
Instead of swapping keys, the latest in novelty party tricks is the Kino Kabaret UK - taking place across Sydney July 14-19, 2008. Following a nation-wide call for participants, 50 aspiring filmmakers and actors will team up to write, shoot and edit short films during 48-hour sessions, each culminating in a screening and party. For details visit Kino Sydney
LaPaglia returns
Anthony LaPaglia (Without A Trace) and US actor Oscar Isaac (PU-239, The Nativity Story) are starring in the powerful true-life political thriller, Balibo, which began principal photography in Darwin and East Timor last week.
Get Squared
Up for mullets and tortured facial hair, infidelity, arson and revenge? We've got 10 free passes to the Popcorn Taxi screening of the new Australian film, The Square on Monday 14 July at Greater Union, Bondi Junction. Joel (actor/writer) and Nash (director) Edgerton will attend the screening and join a Q+A with the audience afterwards.