Press Release for FlickerFest
Celebrating its 20th birthday this year and remaining Australia’s only Academy Accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival Flickerfest continues to roar around the country on it’s highly successful 30-venue national tour screening to packed houses of enthusiastic filmlovers. Heading south to Hobart and across Tasmania, up over the Great Dividing Range to the Blue Mountains and over to new WA centres Wyalkatchem and Esperance each are hosting Flickerfest’s 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 the opening night in Hobart and The Blue Mtns, enjoy the astonishing animation Babel – which challenges viewers with it’s ultra-realistic animation that recently won the award for Best Use of Digital Technology at Flickerfest 2011; and the winner for Best Short Film at Flickerfest 2011, the French screwball comedy ¿Donde Esta Kim Basinger?
The screenings continue with Best Of Australian shorts programme which includes several award winning films: The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan, which took home the award for Best Australian Film at Flickerfest in 2011 recently took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Short at this years Oscars; 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 and David Wenham in the charming Glenn Owen Dodds.
Screening at the Blue Mountains only, is The Best Of Comedy Shorts will finish off the festival on Sunday March 20th, with a hilarious package that includes Fly from Aardman Studios- the people behind Wallace and Gromit; Drop Dead! from The Netherlands which deals with a suicidal sky-diving instructor and Xing, that features some Canadian moose acting very unusually!
Session Details & Ticket Prices HOBART:
$16/ $14 concession / $12 seniors-kids
Best Of International 1 – Thursday March 17th, 645pm
Best Of Australian Shorts – Friday March 18th, 9pm
While in Tasmania, Flickerfest also heads to Cygnet and Queenstown:
Cygnet – Town Hall Supper Club – Saturday March 19th (Best of Australian Shorts)
Queenstown – The Paragon Theatre – Saturday March 19th (Best of Australian Shorts)
Session Details & Ticket Prices BLUE MTNS:
Ticket Prices: $15 per session
Best Of International 1 – Friday March 18th, 8pm, plus food and wine
Best Of Australian – Saturday March 19th, 8pm
Best Of Comedy Shorts – Sunday March 20th, 2pm
Session Details and Ticket Prices WA:
Esperance Soundshell (as part of the Festival Of The Wind) – Friday March 18th, 6.15pm $5 (Best of Australian Shorts)
Wyalkatchem Town Hall – Saturday March 19th, 7pm $10/$8 (Best of Australian Shorts)
May The Shorts Be With You!