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Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize Congratulations to producers Ed Guirney, Ceci Dempsey, Lee Magiday; writer Tony McNamara and director Yorgos Lathimos.
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HAMLET opens at the Adelaide Festival
“The most anticipated Adelaide Festival opera since Richard Meale’s Voss in 1986, Brett Dean’s Hamlet is a mesmerising work that grips the audience in a vice.” Read more here.
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Doug Anthony All Stars Charm London
The Doug Anthony All Stars have returned to Australia, but their recent stint in the UK proceeds them: “The iconoclastic musical act recently reunited and their London performance this weekend of their Edinburgh Fringe hit Near Death Experience was a potent reminder that form is temporary, class is permanent….The result was a gig that was funny, moving and profound. While older fans might recall those early shows, those present here will never forget their latest gig.” Read more here.
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FilmInk MIFF Best Film: Have You Seen the Listers
FilmInk have interviewed director Eddie Martin after they name his film Have You Seen the Listers as their pick for best film from MIFF. “I thought of Anthony and he felt like the right character because he is a larger than life kind of guy and his sense of freedom is inspirational too. He is so open and out there, which are qualities we would all like to have.” Read more here.
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Good news for opera fans
Following the huge success of Barry Kosky’s Saul last year, the Adelaide Festival again brings home grown opera talent to the fore. This year’s festival headliner will be director Neil Armfield and composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet, fresh from a season at Glyndebourne. “British tenor Allan Clayton will reprise his role as Hamlet for the Australian season, supported by American baritone Rod Gilfry as Claudius and British tenor Kim Begley as Polonius. Australian sopranos Cheryl Barker and Lorina Gore will take ...
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MIFF Short Award Win
Congratulations to all MIFF 2017 Short Award finalists and winners, especially to director John Sheedy for winning the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film with MRS MCCUTCHEON. MRS MCCUTCHEON is John’s first foray into directing for film. See the full list if winners here.
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Near Death Experience: 5 Star Review
Doug Anthony All Stars second tour to Edinburgh in as many years continues to garner rave reviews. “The show is, in their own words, about ‘fading in’ when western society wants them to fade out. It’ll make you howl with laughter, punch the air with defiance and break your heart twice. Bring tissues.” Read more here.
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Doug Anthony All Stars Do It Again
After their smash return to the Edinburgh stage last year, the Doug Anthony All Stars are at it again. This year they bring their new show Near Death Experience to the Pleasance Courtyard. Fans old and new are raving: “It’s everything, and more, that long-standing fans of DAAS could have hoped for – no limits comedy, wrapped around songs in which the glorious harmonies let them get away with saying, well, absolutely anything.” Read more here.
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MIFF: Kriv Stenders
Director Kriv Stenders has two releases in the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival: Australia Day and The Go-Betweens: Right Here. Almost polar opposites, both films were shot this year. The Sydney Morning Herald sat down to chat to Stenders about his work: “It’s my passion, it’s also my living … I joke that I used to make TV commercials, now I make the stuff in between TV commercials.” Stender’s discusses success, storytelling and the screen. Read more here.
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Good With Maps
Kate Gaul is in Edinburgh with Noëlle Janaczewska’s Good With Maps “a deep meditation of the power of imagination”. Watch Kate talk about the show here:
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STARSTRUCK Returns
Gillian Armstrong’s second feature film Starstruck has for many years been unavailable to viewers world wide. Now, thanks to the National Film & Sound Archive’s NFSA Restores program, Armstrong’s film has been given a second life. The newly restored Starstruck will be screened as part of the Pioneering Women program at Melbourne International Film Festival (3-21 August). A classic wannabe rags-to-riches tale, the film follows a family in a time of crisis “the film is a neon lightning bolt wrapped up in a gaudy tourist tea-towel ...
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New York Film Week Win
Edited by Simon Price, Kiku Ohe’s first feature film The Lines has been awarded Best Narrative Feature Film at New York Film Week 2017. The Lines is a modern cinematic meditation that reinterprets the symbol of the American landscape. “It follows two actors who escape LA to the isolation of the desert…[it] explores how we connect with each other and the world around us.” Read more about The Lines here.
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TIFF – The Future is Female
The Toronto International Film Festival yesterday released it’s first slate of films – as part of the larger festival this collection is titled The Future is Female. Among the films presented Mary Shelley written by Emma Jensen was featured. Directed Haifaa Al Mansour, the first female Saudi director, Mary Shelley stars Elle Fanning “in this scintillating biopic of the Frankenstein author, chronicling her tempestuous marriage to dissolute poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the fateful night at a Swiss chateau that inspired her most famous creation.” ...
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‘Have You Seen the Listers?’ Hits Home
Eddie Martin’s fourth film Have You Seen the Listers? has struck a chord with its subject. Anthony Lister, renowned street artist, has given the film his blessing after getting “quite emotional” on his first viewing. The film relates how the Brisbane City Council encouraged the then 19-year-old to paint dozens of the city’s traffic signal boxes in 1999. In 2014, the council took Lister – by now earning tens of thousands of dollars per piece and with his works hanging in ...
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MIFF Program Announced
The Melbourne International Film Festival has announced its 2017 season. Featuring 357 films over 18 days this year’s festival brings over the hottest releases from Cannes, Sundance and Berlin as well as all the local big names. Take a look at the full guide here which features many of HLA’s own.
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The Go Betweens: Right Here SFF Premier
The documentary film following cult band The Go Betweens premiered last night at the Sydney Film Festival. The Guardian gave director Kriv Stenders a rave review stating “Stenders has made an emotional, rolling thunder of a film, one this extraordinary band deserves”. Read the full review here.
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Top of the Lake Season 2 Premier
The next instalment of Jane Campion’s acclaimed series is debuting in full at the New Zealand International Film Festival. TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL will follow detective Robin Griffin to Sydney. Watch the trailer below:
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Just released: Jungle trailer
Gearing up for its world premier at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August, JUNGLE has had its trailer released today. Cinematographer Stefan Duscio joins WOLF CREEK director Greg McLean in this stunningly shot, edge-of-your seat story of survival. Check it out:
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New trailer for How the Light Gets In
Check out the new trailer for HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN, written and directed by Anya Beyersdorf, this short film had it’s world premier at the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship Gala Screening on Tuesday night as part of the Sydney Film Festival.
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Neil Armfield’s HAMLET has premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival in England to strong reviews
Director Neil Armfield’s HAMLET has premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival in England to strong reviews, receiving a five-star review from Richard Morrison in The Times who said he hasn’t seen “a more physically vivid portrayal of the Prince of Denmark”. Read more here.
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HLA clients in this year’s Sydney Film Festival program!
Look out for all of the talented HLA clients in this year’s Sydney Film Festival program! AUSTRALIA DAY Directed by Kriv Stenders THE GO BETWEENS – RIGHT HERE Directed by Kriv Stenders THE DOPPEL CHAIN Written & Directed by Scott Pickett FAMILY HAPPINESS Written & Directed by Alice Englert ALI’S WEDDING Production Design by Paul Heath CLEVERMAN SEASON 2: Episodes 1 & 2 Directed by Wayne Blair Written by Jada Alberts Production Design by Jake Nash HOW THE LIGHT GETS ...
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MRS MCCUTCHEON is heading to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen!
MRS MCCUTCHEON is heading to International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, for it’s world premier! Directed and conceived by John Sheedy, the film is the theatre veteran’s first foray into filmmaking, featuring production design by Marg Horwell. Read more here
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