Three upcoming film festivals, Creteil International Women’s Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Singapore International Film Festival have all announced their programs, with a combined total of 13 Australian films screening.
Creteil International Women¹s Film Festival runs from 14-23 March and will screen the documentary Naked on the Inside (d: Kim Farrant) and the short Hush (d: Dena Curtis) as part of the festival¹s International Competition.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival will screen five Australian films this year. The award-winning feature film The Home Song Stories (d: Tony Ayres) will screen in the Asian Film Awards program of the festival, where Joan Chen is nominated for best actress, and will also screen in Gala Presentations as well. Feature Son of A Lion (d: Benjamin Gilmour) continues to have success on the international festival circuit with its selection into the Global Vision program whilst the feature documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (d: Scott Hicks) will screen as part of the Reality Bites Program. The final Australian films in the line up will screen as part of the Animation Unlimited program, Sweet and Sour (d: Eddie White) and The Girl Who Swallowed Bees (d: Paul McDermott). The Hong Kong International Film Festival runs 17 March 6 April 2008.
The Singapore International Film Festival will also screen a variety of Australian features, documentaries and shorts in their World Cinema Program with the selection of the features All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (d: Louise Alston); Romulus, My Father (d: Richard Roxburgh) and the Australian classic Gallipoli (d: Peter Weir). The feature documentaries selected to screen are Donkey in Lahore (d: Faramarz K-Rahber), and Words From The City (d: Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham) while the selected short is Remember My Name (d: Kasimir Burgess, Bowen Duffy, Nick Moore).
Also featured in the World Cinema Program is Flicker Fest: The Bold The Brave The Best a collection of Australian animation. Curated by Anthony Lucas, it is a compilation of both shorts and television commercials that have inspired his career and have won awards and gained international recognition. The Singapore International Film Festival will run 4 14 April 2008.
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