The Antenna International Documentary Film Festival has announced their inaugural line-up for the event which runs 5-9 October.
Boasting 15 Australian premieres and 25 Sydney premieres with films from 18 different countries, there is $10,000 in prizes.
Opening night at the Dendy Opera Quays will screen Robert Nugent’s Memoirs of a Plague that looks at the relationship between humans and the locust.
Closing night will be Philip Cox’s The Bengali Detective followed by an awards presentation to announce the winner of the Sbs Award for International Documentary (worth $5000) and the Best Australian Documentary ($2500). Both films are in competition.
Other films in International Competition: Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, Danfun Dennis’ Hell and Back Again and Marcus Linden’s Regretters – winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010 about two transgender people regretting their decisions to undergo surgery.
In the international special screenings, see Alex Gibney’s...
Boasting 15 Australian premieres and 25 Sydney premieres with films from 18 different countries, there is $10,000 in prizes.
Opening night at the Dendy Opera Quays will screen Robert Nugent’s Memoirs of a Plague that looks at the relationship between humans and the locust.
Closing night will be Philip Cox’s The Bengali Detective followed by an awards presentation to announce the winner of the Sbs Award for International Documentary (worth $5000) and the Best Australian Documentary ($2500). Both films are in competition.
Other films in International Competition: Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, Robin Hessman’s My Perestroika, Danfun Dennis’ Hell and Back Again and Marcus Linden’s Regretters – winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010 about two transgender people regretting their decisions to undergo surgery.
In the international special screenings, see Alex Gibney’s...
- 9/6/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Thomas Taborsky's take on the Best of Germany in 2010.] An entire year's worth of production, however the piece of German cinema that left the biggest mark on 2010 was, strictly speaking, a TV mini series: In Face of the Crime, a ten-part epic about the Russian mob in Berlin, was at the center of attention, and director Dominik Graf received praise wherever he went. Word was of a reinvention - one German cinema is in need of, considering these twelve months were mostly about known topics, known ways of dealing with them and known players - even if the best continued to perform strongly, which also holds true with thesps like Sibel Kekilli (in the country's Academy Award contender When We Leave) and Moritz Bleibtreu (as Joseph Goebbels in Jew Suss: Rise and Fall). But now, let's talk about this year's mixed bag of standout movies: #5. Wallace Line Franz Müller makes the most of the constellation of two single parents falling in love,...
- 12/22/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
North America's largest Documentary festival, HotDocs, has wrapped up and audiences really, really liked Thunder Soul, a film chronicling the reunion of the Kashmere High School Band - 35 years after their initial success - in honour of their mentor (who turned the school's mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse over three decades ago.)
Much like the Toronto international film festival, the HotDocs awards are given out by way of audience votes, and they put out a top 10 (none of which I personally caught at the festival, and I saw some real quality, in particular The Parking Lot Movie and Life With Murder.
The complete Top 10:
1. Thunder Soul (D: Mark Landsman; USA)
2. A Drummer's Dream (D: John Walker; Canada)
3. My Life With Carlos (D: German Berger; Chile, Spain, Germany)
4. Autumn Gold (D: Jan Tenhaven; Austria, Germany)
5. Leave Them Laughing (D: John Zaritsky; Canada, USA)
6. Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (D: Scot McFadyen,...
Much like the Toronto international film festival, the HotDocs awards are given out by way of audience votes, and they put out a top 10 (none of which I personally caught at the festival, and I saw some real quality, in particular The Parking Lot Movie and Life With Murder.
The complete Top 10:
1. Thunder Soul (D: Mark Landsman; USA)
2. A Drummer's Dream (D: John Walker; Canada)
3. My Life With Carlos (D: German Berger; Chile, Spain, Germany)
4. Autumn Gold (D: Jan Tenhaven; Austria, Germany)
5. Leave Them Laughing (D: John Zaritsky; Canada, USA)
6. Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (D: Scot McFadyen,...
- 5/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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