Australias newest and most exciting film festival has its Grand Opening Gala Presentation at the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine 7pm Friday November 22nd 2013. Launching the festival will be renowned Australian star of stage and screen (and Castlemaine resident) John Stanton. Friday 22nd Nov – OPENING GALA PRESENTATION Postcards from a Sunburnt Country: An Anthology of Australian Perspectives 7pm Sharpies (Australia 1974) 4mins M Introduced by the director Greg Macainsh Skyhooks bassist Greg Macainsh presciently captured Melbourne’s Sharpie subculture on film in 1974. Tough, working-class and potentially violent, Sharpies were part Clockwork Orange, part Puberty Blues and all mullet. 7.15pm The Provocative Short Films of Richard Bell (introduced by Gary Foley) The Dinner Party (Australia, directed by Suzanne Howard, 2013) 20mins MA15+ Here Bell uses Brisbane’s picturesque riverfront as a backdrop for a well-catered dinner party in a luxurious mansion. Over the course of the dinner a number of famous Australians will speak, as if privately, of their views on the interrelationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in this country. Broken English (Australia, directed by Suzanne Howard, 2009) 13mins M Bell elucidates questions of Aboriginal political empowerment through questions posed within the various contexts of a chess game, a gallery opening and an Australia Day re-enactment of Captain Cook’s landing. Scratch An Aussie (Australia, directed by Suzanne Howard, 2008) 10mins MA15+ Scratch an Aussie takes form as a Freudian therapy session in which Bell opens up to a therapist, played by well-known activist Gary Foley, about his perceptions of race relations. The session is interspersed with Bell assuming the role of therapist for a group of young blonde-haired Australians as he urges them to frankly discuss their concerns and attitudes about Aboriginal people. 8.30pm The Last Wave (Australia 1977) 106mins PG Rarely screened in Australia, Peter Weir’s The Last Wave is internationally recognised as a masterpiece of Australian cinema. Coming soon after the ground-breaking success of Weir’s 1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave is a haunting, vivid encapsulation of the clash between white and indigenous Australia. cliff.net.au/cliffedge/ cliff.net.au/ theatreroyal.info/
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