AFF has named adventurer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis and dancer and choreographer Meryl Tankard as dual recipients of the 2016 Jim Bettison and Helen James Award. Both will use the award to develop films.
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Highway is written and directed by Vanessa Gazy, produced by Tim Russell and Michael Wark and stars the swiftly-rising Odessa Young.
Girl Asleep was selected ahead of Jasper Jones, Spin Out and The Death and Life of Otto Bloom. CinefestOZ received more than 30 submissions for the prize, with the winner decided by a jury made up of Armstrong, producer Sue Taylor (Looking for Grace), DP
“Toronto audiences first found Christopher Nolan, Lynne Ramsay and Steve McQueen in our Discovery section,†said the Artistic Director of TIFF, Cameron Bailey. “We can't wait to introduce a new generation of vibrant, original voices in cinema."
CinefestOZ kicks off on August 24, with The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Girl Asleep, Jasper Jones and Spin Out battling it out for the festival's third annual Film Prize, worth $100,000.
The festival is now calling for entries from anywhere in the world for its debut year. One submission gains entrants consideration for 11 festivals around Australia and internationally, including Brisbane, Canberra, Auckland, Wellington, Kuala Lumpur, Pen
The 25th event will be held at Parramatta Park on February 11 next year.
Following on from its simultaneous world premiere at Sundance and the World Economic Forum in Davos, artist Lynette Wallworth’s VR-project Collisions is set to make its Australian debut at the Adelaide Film Festival.