The 2008 Bayside Film Festival will celebrate the achievements of Australian short filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival in two specially curated sessions.
“In the Cannes” is a Festival Forum featuring Australian films and filmmakers in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, tracing back from the two Australian short films in Official Selection in 2008, My Rabit Hoppy (Anthony Lucas) and Jury Prize winner Jerry Can (Julius Avery) to the sole short film entrant in the 54th Cannes Film Festival in 2001, Bird in the Wire (Phillip Donnellon).
Join filmmakers including writer and director Julius Avery and producer Stuart Parkyn (Jerry Can), director and producer Anthony Lucas (My Rabit Hoppy), producer Jane Liscombe (Cracker Bag) and director, writer and producer Phillip Donnellon (Bird in the Wire).
To follow this exciting forum is a specially-curated program of Cannes-selected shorts which celebrates Australia
Films screening include include Cracker Bag, the winner of the 2003 Short Film Palme d’Or, Phillip Donnellon’s Bird in the Wire, in official selection at the 54th Cannes Film Festival, and Ivan Sen’s documentary of the life of Tom E Lewis, Yellow Fella, which screened in Official Competition, Un Certain Regard, with the feature short Jewboy (Tony Krawitz).
Artistic Director of the Bayside Film Festival, Sally Hussey, said “I am thrilled to celebrate the achievements of Australian filmmakers at Cannes
The Bayside Film Festival opens on Wednesday 16 July with a gala opening night event, followed by 3 days of short films, youth documentary, master-classes and workshops. The Bayside Film Festival screens at Palace Brighton Bay Cinema from 16-19 July, 2008.
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