EXPRESS FROM SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL TO NEWCASTLE
Announcement posted by Travelling Film Festival 15 May 2015
The Travelling Film Festival opens in Newcastle, with a selection of films direct from their premieres at Sydney Film Festival.
“From Friday 19 to Sunday 21 June, Newcastle’s Tower Cinemas will screen a selection of festival-quality cinema, just five days after the Festival in Sydney,” said Travelling Film Festival Manager, Alicia Emery. “Newcastle audiences are in for an extraordinary treat with another incredible selection of films direct from Sydney Film Festival and in advance of any national theatrical release,” said Emery.
Jeremy Sims’ feature film Last Cab to Darwin starring Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver will open the Travelling Film Festival in Newcastle, after the film’s World Premiere at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival on 6th June. Sims and Caton will be attending the opening night in Newcastle and will take part in a question and answer session with the audience.
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance, the unconventional western Slow West, starring Michael Fassbender, and Australians Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn; and Gayby Baby, a new Australian documentary exploring the lives of four children in same-sex families, told from the child’s perspective, will also screen.
Two of the 12 Sydney Film Festival Official Competition Films will be screened: Australian Kim Farrant’s Strangerland, an outback-set thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Jospeh Fiennes and Hugo Weaving; and Tehran Taxi, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale and the third film made in secret by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, since a ban on filmmaking was imposed on him in Iran.
The Second Mother, a Brazilian drama and another winner at the Berlinale, of the Panorama Audience Award, will also screen. The film has been described as described as gently humorous, beautifully made and socially astute.
Newcastle will also see powerful dramatic thriller, A Second Chance, starring Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, (Game of Thrones’ Kingslayer), created by Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier; as well as Phoenix, the sixth collaboration between director Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss (Barbara), a drama about a concentration-camp survivor returning to Berlin to reclaim her life.
Family-friendly Indian film, The Crow’s Egg, a charming and funny tale of two young brothers determined to taste pizza for the first time; will come direct to Newcastle from the Festival’s Family Program.
As always a selection of six short films will also be screening over the festival weekend, including finalists of the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and other shorts from the Festival program.
The Travelling Film Festival is Australia’s longest-running travelling film festival. The Festival provides audiences in regional areas with the opportunity to see world-class Australian and international films that they may not otherwise have had access to on the big screen.
Tickets are now on sale for the Festival. The most committed film lovers can take advantage of the Festival’s Subscribe & Save packages, making it cheaper to see all nine films, or five films of choice.
The Travelling Film Festival acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and the NSW Government through Screen NSW and is supported by media partner ABC Newcastle.
Full programming details and ticket information can be found at: www.sff.org.au/Newcastle
WHAT: Sydney Film Festival’s Travelling Film Festival in Newcastle
WHEN: Newcastle: Friday 19 June – Sunday 21 June 2015
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/TravellingFilmFestivalNewcastle
SINGLE TICKETS: $14 / $12 / $10 (Adult / Concession / Student & Kids)
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: 9-FILM FULL SUBSCRIPTION: $75 Adult / $65 Concession
5-FILM FLEXIPASS: $53 Adult / $48 Concession
HOW TO BOOK
Book tickets online in advance at sff.org.au/Newcastle or get tickets in advance from the cinema box office.
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
7PM LAST CAB TO DARWIN (M) followed by special guest Q&A
9.15PM COMPLIMENTARY OPENING NIGHT DRINKS
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
1PM TEHRAN TAXI (UC) screens with short Bluey
3.30PM A SECOND CHANCE (UC)
6.00PM THE CROW’S EGG (PG) screens with short Slingshot
8.15PM STRANGERLAND (UC) screens with short Death in Bloom
SUNDAY 21 JUNE
1PM THE SECOND MOTHER (UC) screens with short Goodnight Sweetheart
3.30PM GAYBY BABY (UC)
6.00PM PHOENIX (M) screens with short The Drover’s Boy
8.15PM SLOW WEST (M) screens with short Ernie Biscuit
Tower Cinemas
183-185 King Street
Newcastle NSW 2500
Phone: (02) 4926 2233
TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL VISITS…
NT Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine QLD Bundaberg, Cairns, Charters Towers, Mackay, Toowoomba, Townsville NSW Dubbo, Grafton, Huskisson, Nambucca Heads, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong, Yamba.
PRESENTED BY Sydney Film Festival T 02 8220 6600 E tff@sff.org.au W www.sff.org.au
The 62nd Sydney Film Festival runs 3-14 June 2015 and brings a packed program of screenings and special events to even more venues across Sydney. Tickets for Sydney Film Festival 2015 are on sale now. Please call 1300 733 733 or visit sff.org.au for more information.
“From Friday 19 to Sunday 21 June, Newcastle’s Tower Cinemas will screen a selection of festival-quality cinema, just five days after the Festival in Sydney,” said Travelling Film Festival Manager, Alicia Emery. “Newcastle audiences are in for an extraordinary treat with another incredible selection of films direct from Sydney Film Festival and in advance of any national theatrical release,” said Emery.
Jeremy Sims’ feature film Last Cab to Darwin starring Michael Caton and Jacki Weaver will open the Travelling Film Festival in Newcastle, after the film’s World Premiere at the 62nd Sydney Film Festival on 6th June. Sims and Caton will be attending the opening night in Newcastle and will take part in a question and answer session with the audience.
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize winner at Sundance, the unconventional western Slow West, starring Michael Fassbender, and Australians Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn; and Gayby Baby, a new Australian documentary exploring the lives of four children in same-sex families, told from the child’s perspective, will also screen.
Two of the 12 Sydney Film Festival Official Competition Films will be screened: Australian Kim Farrant’s Strangerland, an outback-set thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Jospeh Fiennes and Hugo Weaving; and Tehran Taxi, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale and the third film made in secret by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, since a ban on filmmaking was imposed on him in Iran.
The Second Mother, a Brazilian drama and another winner at the Berlinale, of the Panorama Audience Award, will also screen. The film has been described as described as gently humorous, beautifully made and socially astute.
Newcastle will also see powerful dramatic thriller, A Second Chance, starring Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, (Game of Thrones’ Kingslayer), created by Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier; as well as Phoenix, the sixth collaboration between director Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss (Barbara), a drama about a concentration-camp survivor returning to Berlin to reclaim her life.
Family-friendly Indian film, The Crow’s Egg, a charming and funny tale of two young brothers determined to taste pizza for the first time; will come direct to Newcastle from the Festival’s Family Program.
As always a selection of six short films will also be screening over the festival weekend, including finalists of the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and other shorts from the Festival program.
The Travelling Film Festival is Australia’s longest-running travelling film festival. The Festival provides audiences in regional areas with the opportunity to see world-class Australian and international films that they may not otherwise have had access to on the big screen.
Tickets are now on sale for the Festival. The most committed film lovers can take advantage of the Festival’s Subscribe & Save packages, making it cheaper to see all nine films, or five films of choice.
The Travelling Film Festival acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and the NSW Government through Screen NSW and is supported by media partner ABC Newcastle.
Full programming details and ticket information can be found at: www.sff.org.au/Newcastle
WHAT: Sydney Film Festival’s Travelling Film Festival in Newcastle
WHEN: Newcastle: Friday 19 June – Sunday 21 June 2015
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/TravellingFilmFestivalNewcastle
SINGLE TICKETS: $14 / $12 / $10 (Adult / Concession / Student & Kids)
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE: 9-FILM FULL SUBSCRIPTION: $75 Adult / $65 Concession
5-FILM FLEXIPASS: $53 Adult / $48 Concession
HOW TO BOOK
Book tickets online in advance at sff.org.au/Newcastle or get tickets in advance from the cinema box office.
FRIDAY 19 JUNE
7PM LAST CAB TO DARWIN (M) followed by special guest Q&A
9.15PM COMPLIMENTARY OPENING NIGHT DRINKS
SATURDAY 20 JUNE
1PM TEHRAN TAXI (UC) screens with short Bluey
3.30PM A SECOND CHANCE (UC)
6.00PM THE CROW’S EGG (PG) screens with short Slingshot
8.15PM STRANGERLAND (UC) screens with short Death in Bloom
SUNDAY 21 JUNE
1PM THE SECOND MOTHER (UC) screens with short Goodnight Sweetheart
3.30PM GAYBY BABY (UC)
6.00PM PHOENIX (M) screens with short The Drover’s Boy
8.15PM SLOW WEST (M) screens with short Ernie Biscuit
Tower Cinemas
183-185 King Street
Newcastle NSW 2500
Phone: (02) 4926 2233
TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL VISITS…
NT Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine QLD Bundaberg, Cairns, Charters Towers, Mackay, Toowoomba, Townsville NSW Dubbo, Grafton, Huskisson, Nambucca Heads, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong, Yamba.
PRESENTED BY Sydney Film Festival T 02 8220 6600 E tff@sff.org.au W www.sff.org.au
The 62nd Sydney Film Festival runs 3-14 June 2015 and brings a packed program of screenings and special events to even more venues across Sydney. Tickets for Sydney Film Festival 2015 are on sale now. Please call 1300 733 733 or visit sff.org.au for more information.