As Flickerfest Roars around the country on it’s 30-venue national tour, it heads north to Brisbane, Townsville and Gunnedah this weekend for 2 days of the best of Australian and International Shorts.
With a glamorous opening night party and screening in Brisbane on Thursday 24th February and screenings continuing on Saturday 26th, Flickerfest will be hosting 3 sessions of short film highlights, pulled from over 1793 entries and distilled into the crème de la crème of local and global short filmmaking.
Across the International 1 Program screening on opening night. enjoy the astonishing animation Babel – which challenges viewers with it’s astonishingly real animation and recently won the award for Digital Technology at Flickerfest 2011; and the winner for Best Short Film at Flickerfest 2011, the French screwball comedy ¿Donde Esta Kim Basinger? Our opening night screening also includes Today’s Cowboys a moving, thought provoking and at times humorous account of the lonely life of 20-year-old Mick Martin – a young man living in rural QLD dealing with his life as a cowboy, society's expectations and the isolation of country life.
Today’s Cowboys took home the Highly Commended Documentary Prize at Flickerfest 2011 and director/ writer Annika Salisbury (who made the film whilst a student at QUT) will be in attendance to introduce her film. The International 1 programme screens at 7pm on Thursday the 24th, followed by drinks and nibbles.
On Saturday 26th of January the screenings continue with our Best Of International 2 Program which includes the powerful drama Na Wewe, from Belgium currently nominated in the 2011 Academy Awards for Best Live action Short and The Cow Who Wants To be A Hamburger from Oscar winning USA animator Bill Plympton. Joining our International 2 programme is Brisbane film Push Bike, officially selected for the Australian programme at Flickerfest 2011, a sexy comedy about a lonely lady whose clothes are stolen from the locker room, who must brave a nude ride home on her trusty push bike. The International 2 programme screens on Saturday the 26th at 4pm.
Following this at 630pm our Best Of Australian shorts programme screens including several award winning films: The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan which took home the award for Best Australian Film at Flickerfest in 2011 and is currently Australia’s only film nominated for an Oscar; the Flickerfest/IF Audience Award winning comedy When The Wind Changes; AFI Award winner and Flickerfest winner for best Cinematography The Kiss and The Telegram Man starring Jack Thompson in his first ever short film alongside Sigrid Thornton and Gary Sweet. Also screening as part of our Best Of Australian shorts is the funny and heartfelt award winning Brisbane film Glenn Owen Dodds, starring David Wenham.
The Best of Australian Shorts Program screens in Brisbane at 6.30pm on Saturday the 26th. For more information about Flickerfest in Brisbane go to http://www.dendy.com.au/event_detail.asp?Event_ID=588
In Townsville Flickerfest screens Our Best Of Australian shorts and Best of Comedy shorts on the 25th and 26th of February at 7pm each night at Dance North
In Gunnedah 26th February Flickerfest screens Our Best Of Australian shorts(4pm) and Best of International 1 (630pm) at The Civic go to www.infogunnedah.com.au
In the following weeks Flickerfest heads west from the 4th of March hitting Camelot Outdoor Cinema Perth, Bathurst Entertainment centre NSW and Kalannie oval WA
For more information on a Flickerfest venue in your neck of the woods , head to www.flickerfest.com.au