The Dungog Film Festival has made its first film line-up announcement.
The all-Australian film festival, now in its sixth year, will open with Peter Templeman’s debut feature Not Suitable For Children, which also opened the Sydney Film Festival.
Having its world premiere is Grammar of Happiness, a documentary about a linguistics professor whose beliefs are flipped on their head when he visits Brazil’s Piraha tribe, whose language can be spoken, whistled or drummed but contains now words for colours, numbers, art or past tense.
Jack Rath’s Between Home is the documentary of a novice sailor, Nick Jaffe who sails from the UK to Australia, documenting the complete two and a half year journey.
Among the festival highlights “It’s A Guy Thing” is a series of shorts focused on the male psyche, a screening of 1995 film Angel Baby which will be attended by actress Jacqueline McKenzie, and...
The all-Australian film festival, now in its sixth year, will open with Peter Templeman’s debut feature Not Suitable For Children, which also opened the Sydney Film Festival.
Having its world premiere is Grammar of Happiness, a documentary about a linguistics professor whose beliefs are flipped on their head when he visits Brazil’s Piraha tribe, whose language can be spoken, whistled or drummed but contains now words for colours, numbers, art or past tense.
Jack Rath’s Between Home is the documentary of a novice sailor, Nick Jaffe who sails from the UK to Australia, documenting the complete two and a half year journey.
Among the festival highlights “It’s A Guy Thing” is a series of shorts focused on the male psyche, a screening of 1995 film Angel Baby which will be attended by actress Jacqueline McKenzie, and...
- 6/12/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Stuart Stanton is putting the finishing touches to his self-financed debut feature comedy Charlie Bonnet before shopping it around to Australian distributors. The Melbourne-based filmmaker includes bad acting in the comedy of errors -- but only because it.s a key part of the storyline! Charlie Bonnet tells the tale of a nervous, struggling actor who wants two things in life: to find the love of his life and to make a living from his passion for acting. Peter Stanley, who wrote and produced the film with Stanton, plays the title character. They met while studying film at Rmit and were both born in the UK and moved to Australia with their families when they were children. .It.s why the film.s comedy is English in style,. Stanton told If Magazine. .I knew if the crew wasn.t laughing it wasn.t working. We would constantly rewrite jokes and...
- 5/18/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
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