Highlights to look out for:
Friday 11th January Neil Hamburger, Dr El Suavo & Jay Katz @ Bar Broadway
Sunday 13th January Miss Deaths Knitting Group
Thursday 17th January The Directors Cut Iain McIntyre’s A WARNING
Saturday 19th January Saucers under the Stars
Saturday 26th January Sounds of Seduction
Wednesday 30th January Margenalised Movies: Putney Swope 1969
Editor’s pick:
Monday 14th January
Dracula (The Dirty old Man) (1969)
Reporter Mike Waters enters a desert cave and finds Dracula the Dirty Old Man, babbling like a borscht-belt comic and wearing a hairpiece that resembles a dead skunk. Mike turns into a werewolf-like creature and attacks women. The women are magically whisked away to the cave where Drac drains ’em and “Irving” mains ’em. This may be the single most deranged Dracula movie ever made. Annandale Hotel, Sydney, NSW, Australia
— 7.30pm Donation
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A Taste of Slow 2008 is a festival run across Victoria, celebrating the most common indulgence: food. The message is to slow down in life and savour for the best human experience. The festival will include dinners, public talks, workshops, cooking demonstrations, film screenings and tastings.
The Slow Shorts short film competition is part of A Taste of Slow 2008. Slow Shorts will run from 22 February – 24 February 2008 at Melbourne’s Federation Square, presenting the best short films from Australia and around the world that savour the philosophy of Slow Food.
Emerging and established filmmakers are invited to present their take on all manner of gastronomic pleasures: it could be a short film about a food experience you had, a satirical cooking program or a documentary about eco-friendly farming.
The festival will award two prizes: the Soft Boiled Egg Award for the best 3-minute film focusing on food as well as a separate prize for the best overall film winner. So indulge your palate and feed your mind with this irresistible combination of food and film.
Submission deadline is Monday, 21 January 2008
Email slowshorts@portablecontent.com or visit http://www.slowshorts.com
Filmmakers around Australia and across the globe have until 4 March to submit their feature film and until 7 April to submit their short film for entry into the Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) 2008 program.
The most highly regarded short film competition in the Asia Pacific, the Best Bigpond MIFF shorts competition screens approximately 100 short films every year, including animation, experimental, documentary and fiction films. In 2008, the Festival will offer filmmakers from around the world the opportunity to compete for 10 awards, with prize money totalling
$35,000. The awards on offer are: City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film, Best Fiction, Experimental, Documentary and Animation Short Films, Best Student Production, Award for Short Film Promoting Human Rights, Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film, Emerging Australian Filmmaker and Creative Excellence in an Australian Short Film.
The Melbourne International Film Festival attracts the best films not just in Australia, but from around the world.
Entry forms are available online at http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/
Short films must be Victorian premieres to be eligible for the competition.
The 2008 festival will run from July 25 – August 10.
The Other Film Festival (TOFF) is Australia’s only international disability film festival and is renowned for excellence in filmmaking, highly accessible cinema and the passionate exchange of ideas. TOFF is pleased to announce that the festival in 2008 will be competitive with cash prizes including $5,000 for Best Film. The festival will be held at Melbourne Museum in September 2008.
Films may be any length or genre, but your film must be made by, with or about people with a disability. Entry fee is $30.00/ student $25.00.
Deadline for entries is 3 March, 2008
To enter online go to http://www.withoutabox.com/login/5000
For more information on the festival, go to www.otherfilmfestival.com
Contact the festival at Arts Access off@artsaccess.com.au or call 03 96998299
Angry Productions is calling for entries for the 6th Angry Film Festival! Are you a filmmaker who wants to have your short film screened in front of an appreciative captive audience? Want to see your short up on the big screen? Up to thirteen films will be selected to screen on the short film night in early 2008. The only criteria is that films must be under 15
minutes. Short films that are story-based are looked on more favourably.
Entries close 20th February, 2008
For more information and to download an entry form visit
http://www.angryproductions.org
