Posted by Joel Friedrich on February 3, 2009 under Adelaide Film Festival | 
The world arrives in Adelaide this February, as the eleven-day BigPond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF) presents over 130 films from 49 countries and an atlas full of special events, forums and art installations.
Thirty-nine Australian films, including nine features, eight documentaries and 22 shorts will be showcased at the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, offering an of the moment snapshot of the state of play of Australian filmmaking with romantic comedy, historical dramas, and inspiring documentaries of human courage all emerging as strong themes.
Nine new Australian features will have their world premieres at the festival, with six of these – A GOOD MAN, LAST RIDE, LUCKY COUNTRY, MY TEHRAN FOR SALE and SAMSON AND DELILAH, and opening night film MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX – made possible through the festival’s investment arm, the AFF Investment Fund, which invests in new and innovative Australian works.
Other world premieres include Natalie Imbruglia in her first starring role in CLOSED FOR WINTER; VAN DIEMEN’S LAND based on the amazing story of Alexander Pearce, Australia’s most notorious convict; and BEAUTIFUL a drama about Australian suburbia as you have never seen it before.
Three extraordinary Australian documentary features will have their national premieres – YES MADAM, SIR, SOLO and ACROSS THE PLATEAU.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 7, 2008 under Adelaide Film Festival |
Named in Variety’s 2007 list of the World’s Top 50 Film Festivals and winner of that year’s IF Award for Best Film Festival, the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival returns from February 19 to March 1, 2009, two-week celebration of the moving image in all its manifestations. The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will screen more than 130 films from over 50 countries and present a range of special events, exhibitions and forums in addition to its In Cinema screening program.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will world premiere eleven new Australian films from established and emerging Australian filmmakers including five features, one feature documentary, five short films, and for the first time a moving image art installation, all of which have received funding from the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.
“Each of these films offer its creative team the chance to be bold and innovative in their storytelling for the screen”, said Katrina Sedgwick. “It’s thrilling to watch this diverse slate develop and unfold and for South Australia to be playing such a significant role in enabling these projects to find what will no doubt be eager audiences both here and overseas.”
Highlights will include My Year Without Sex (Dir Sarah Watt),a wry look at twelve months in a family’s life as chance and fate randomly intervene; My Tehran For Sale (Dir Granaz Moussavi) , the story of a young actress living in Tehran and her struggle for freedom, shot entirely in Iran; Home (Dir Kriv Stenders),a Western set in 1902 as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy; Last Ride (Dir Glendyn Ivin),the story of a desperate father, played by Hugo Weaving who takes his son on the run after committing a violent crime; Samson & Delilah (Dir Warwick Thornton), a love story about two young aboriginal teenagers who live in a remote indigenous community; A Good Man (Dir Safina Uberoi), the extraordinary true story of an Australian farmer Chris Rorhlach, his quadriplegic wife, their newborn baby and his plans to open a brothel in their small country town; and Cat-Piano (Dirs Eddie White and Ari Gibson) another inspired animation from The People’s Republic of Animation featuring the voice of Nick Cave as the narrator.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will also celebrate the romantic comedy genre. Four classic films of the genre - THE APARTMENT, MANHATTAN, MIDNIGHT and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY - will be included in the program along with some soon to be unveiled new contributions to the genre.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will have factual and fictional bookends with the Australian International Documentary Conference, to be held over the festival’s opening days, and the National Screenwriters’ Conference held a week later in the Barossa Valley.
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