TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL OPENS IN WAGGA WAGGA

TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL OPENS IN WAGGA WAGGA

Sydney Film Festival’s 2016 Travelling Film Festival is coming to Wagga Wagga, with an impressive line-up of award winning cinema at Forum 6 Cinemas, 11 - 13 March 2016.

Tickets to Australia’s longest running travelling film festival are on sale now, bringing world class, festival quality cinema to the largest inland city in New South Wales.

The Man Who Knew Infinity will open the Festival. Starring Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and Academy award winner Jeremy Irons, the film is a biopic tracing the life of mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan.  Ramanujan made extraordinary contributions to the field by independently compiling nearly 3,900 new mathematical identities and equations.

Together with Good Pitch Australia, the Festival will be offering $10 tickets to a special screening of Australian filmmaker Sophie Wiesner’s Call Me Dad. The ABC documentary highlights male domestic violence in Victoria; follows a group of men through a behaviour change program for family violence perpetrators who want to change. 

Travelling Film Festival Manager Alicia Emery says the Festival is delighted to be coming back to Wagga Wagga in 2016. “We are so excited to be bringing five short films and ten feature films including three documentaries to Forum 6 Cinemas,” said Emery.

“Between them these films have won 90 awards and received 124 nominations.  Film fans can be assured of a weekend jam packed full of incredible cinema,” she said.

The eight feature length films include:

·         My Love, Don’t Cross That River, South Korean filmmaker Jin Mo-young’s debut is now one of the most successful independent Korean film of all time. The film has won multiple awards for best documentary, and is a heartbreaking portrait of a couple married for 76 years.

·         Phoenix, the multi award winning and sixth collaboration between German director Christian Petzold and actress Nina Hoss. The post-war drama follows a concentration camp survivor’s return to Germany to reclaim her life.

·         Mustang, described as ‘The Virgin Suicides in Anatolia’, is Turkish-French female filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s feature debut. The film has received 23 awards and 35 nominations including an Oscar, depicting the loss of sexual innocence in a sibling comedy-drama.

·         Rams, the multi award winning drama by Icelandic filmmaker Grímur Hákonarson. Full of dry wit, the film follows the story of two ageing brother’s brought together because their livelihoods are under threat.

·         45 Years, the award winning and Oscar nominated ‘companion’ film to director Andrew Haigh’s critically acclaimed Weekend. The film paints a moving portrait of a very stylish 45-year marriage shaken to its core by an unexpected letter.

·         The Crow’s Egg, dubbed the next Slumdog Millionaire is a film by Indian filmmaker M. Manikandan. The funny family-friendly Tamil tale has won two prizes at the National Film Awards India, and follows two mischievous brothers from a Chennai slum on a mission to taste pizza for the very first time.

·         Song of the Sea, a wonderful family hand-drawn fantasy animation by Tomm Moore inspired by Ireland’s rich Celtic folklore. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015 and won Best Feature at the Irish Film & TV Awards and Shanghai Film Festival in the same year.

·         Sherpa, the BAFTA nominated documentary by Australian director Jennifer Peedom was shot post Nepal’s 2014 Everest disaster killing 16 Sherpas. The film grippingly captures changing attitudes among Sherpa climbers, who take the biggest risks but reap the most meagre rewards, on the world’s highest peak.

With tickets sure to sell fast, Wagga film fans should book tickets well in advance. ’Subscribe and Save’ packages offer great value for multiple ticket purchases.  

WHAT:                                 Sydney Film Festival’s Travelling Film Festival in Wagga Wagga

WHEN:                                 Friday 11 March – Sunday 13 March 2016

WHERE:                               Forum 6 Cinemas, 77 Trail Street, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

FACEBOOK:                        https://www.facebook.com/TravellingFilmFestivalWagga 

SINGLE TICKETS:               $14 / $12 / $10 (Adult / Concession / Student & Kids)

SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: 5-FILM FLEXIPASS: $53 Adult / $48 Concession

                                                Note: films must be selected at time of purchase
                                                9-FILM FULL SUBSCRIPTION: $81 Adult / $72 Concession

Film schedule & Editor’s notes HERE