Flickerfest Kicks of to a Swinging Start

Flickerfest kicked off to a swinging start on Friday night screening our International one programme of shorts in competition films from the best short filmmakers from around the globe including Australia’s own Paul McDermott with his latest film ‘The Girl Who Swallowed Bees’.

Our 400 strong opening night audience included Chris Haywood, Flickerfest Patron Gillian Armstrong, Joel and Nash Edgerton, Matt Newton and Gracie Barry and Sue Otto, Paul McDermott and Pia Miranda.

Now in the fourth day of our festival we still have a feast of exciting programmes and workshops to come. On Tuesday the 8th Jan at 2.15pm AFI award winning director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lies) will present a documentary workshop prior to the our two screenings of short Documentaries in competition.

With many fine films already shown in our international and Australian competitions we have two Australian and three International programmes still to screen. All these films will be competing for an array of excellent prizes including the Academy Accredited® prizes, The Coopers Award for Best Film and The Yoram Gross award for Best Animation. In addition the
inaugural SAE award for Best Use of Digital Technology in a Short Film and the JVC award for Best Australian Film are also up for grabs.

And finally we have two special programs yet to screen. Bad Girls, a collection of films which feature misbehaving chicks will screen on Wednesday the 9th Jan at 9pm and again on Friday 11th Jan at 6:45pm. And on Sat 12th Jan at 9pm and Sunday 13th at 6:45 pm we will be screening Cinema 16 , a wonderful collection of rare short films by famous filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant and Tim Burton made in the early days of their careers. This programme has been put together by Luke Morris from Warp Films UK and is must for true film lovers. Luke is in Australia as part of our jury to present these screenings.

The festival will conclude on Sunday January the 13th. So if you’re keen to check out the winners and frock up for our closing night party, be sure to get in early to book your tickets.

For further information on the programme and bookings please go to http://www.flickerfest.com.au or call MCA-TIX on 1300 306 776.

Look forward to seeing you at the festival!

Best wishes from
The Flickerfest Team

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