Mel Gibson will appear in a Q&a ahead of a 40th anniversary screening of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli at this year’s Australian International Screen Forum, which aims to connect the Australian and US industries.
Typically held in New York in partnership with Screen Australia, the 2021 event, planned for late March, will be held entirely online, and consist of screenings, keynotes, interviews, panels, and workshops.
The screening of Weir’s landmark 1981 film, from a National Film and Sound Archive (Nfsa) restored print, will also include an interview with Gibson’s co-star Mark Lee and tributes from on-and-off screen talent.
Weir has endorsed the forum’s tribute to Gallipoli, set across rural Western Australia, a WWI training camp in Cairo and then the battlefront in Turkey.
“The film is a memorial to the men who fought and died at Gallipoli in southern Turkey in 1915,” the director said. “It was inspired...
Typically held in New York in partnership with Screen Australia, the 2021 event, planned for late March, will be held entirely online, and consist of screenings, keynotes, interviews, panels, and workshops.
The screening of Weir’s landmark 1981 film, from a National Film and Sound Archive (Nfsa) restored print, will also include an interview with Gibson’s co-star Mark Lee and tributes from on-and-off screen talent.
Weir has endorsed the forum’s tribute to Gallipoli, set across rural Western Australia, a WWI training camp in Cairo and then the battlefront in Turkey.
“The film is a memorial to the men who fought and died at Gallipoli in southern Turkey in 1915,” the director said. “It was inspired...
- 2/9/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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