Press release from Limelight PR
Prizewinning films and stand out favourites from this year’s St Kilda Film Festival’s Top 100 Australian shorts will next month embark on a national tour visiting 37 destinations.
On Wednesday 21 July the tour hits Sydney, before making its way to Moulamein (24 July), Deniliquin (25 July), Balranald (26 July) and Lismore (3 & 8 August).
With two jam-packed sessions, these are just some of the film’s you will be able to see:
Straight from scooping the Festival’s top prize for Best short Film is Tomorrow, directed by Simon Portus, produced by David Curzon and staring Leah Purcell. The film tells a compelling story about the meeting of a country town teenager and a businesswoman on her way to Brisbane. Simon Portus also picked up the Best Director gong for the film, but the accolades didn’t stop there – lead actress, Laura Davies walked away with the Best Actor award.
Audiences Australia wide will also get the chance to see the Best Animation winner, Ink. Directed and animated by Justine Wallace, the stylised animation follows the search for a lost toy, a stolen childhood and a girl spray-painting the streets.
The program also features Australian talent known to local audiences; Gemma Lee’s The Wake which stars Angus Sampson and Pippa Black recently took the Best of the Fest Audience Favourite awards at Palm Springs. Meanwhle Abe Forsythe brings another favourite to the slate – the one minute short Tomorrow (GPS) staring Emma Lung and Henry Nixon.
Angus Sampson makes his second appearance in the hilarious Audience Award winning short Celestial Avenue which tells the story of a woman, Kath, who has been looking for love in all the wrong places. Then, she finds herself in Chinatown. This 20 minute short film is unlike anything you’ve even seen Sampson in – funnier that a Thank God You’re Here sketch – Angus plays a Chinese man, the recipient of Kath’s love.
Unique documentary Helmut’s House is a recounting of filmmaker, Jess Dickenson’s encounter with an 89 year old man, Helmut, an original character leading a truly unconventional lifestyle in the wilderness. Living alone and remote for nearly 40 years in a hand-built house on the bed of one of the largest rivers in the country, Helmut was wearing only a loin cloth when she arrived.
Sydney Chauvel Cinema Wednesday 21 July
Moulamein Moulamein Bowling Club Saturday 24 July
Deniliquin The Peppin Heritage Centre Sunday 25 July
Balranald Theatre Royal Monday 26 July
Lismore Star Court Theatre Tuesday 3 & Sunday 8 August
These films, plus more, will screen in two sessions at each destination – full list of films attached.
For more information visit www.stkildafilmfestival.com.au