September '17 Program
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Program 14—25 September '17 Contents Staff Aahana Kumra Djalu Gurruwiwi Films Special Events Industry Events Opening Night Burma Storybook 13 Keepers of the Magic 23 Cinema 360 18 ACS NT Awards 30 Artistic Director with Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat Timothy Parish Lipstick Under My Burkha 5 Good Time 24 Immersive, full-dome Workshops 32 with special guest Aahana Kumra Best of Annecy 2017 13 planetarium cinema comes to General Manager A Ghost Story 24 Darwin for the very first time Alice Body SPARK Film Showcase 6 Best of Annecy Kids 2017 14 Ellipsis 25 with a temporary, pop-up Operations Manager Best of Territory Shorts 7 Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing 14 with David Wenham structure at the Waterfront. James Parker Princess Westwind 8 Chauka: Please Tell Us the Time 26 Art House 28 SPARK Executive Producer and Workshops Coordinator with Ben Strunin and Djalu Gurruwiwi The Square 15 Information Manifesto 26 The art of the moving image is Blandine Ruffo The Documentary of 9 Loving Vincent 15 not limited to cinema screens. Dr G Yunupingu's Life Song to Song 27 Cinema 360 Coordinator Happening in participating Ticketing 36 with special guests and performances November 16 Cat Orme Endless Poetry 27 Darwin art galleries. Venues 37 Rock'n Roll 16 Publicist Closing Night ACS NT Awards 30 Calendar 38 Chryss Carr The Song Keepers 10 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 17 with Ray Martin and David Brill Cinesonic 31 with Naina Sen Photographer Drone Film Festival ANZ 17 Mad Max: Fury Road - Black & Chrome 30 Celebrating the relationship Murray Hilton King of Peking 11 Post-Apocalyptic Costume Party between sound and screen, Score 22 events include live cinematic Graphic Designer The Opposition 11 A Memory In Khaki 22 soundtracks and audio-visual Mike Frier Pop Aye 12 performances. Mountain 23 Tehran Taboo 12 with the Ad Hoc Ensemble Festival Club 31 DIFF Quiz Night 34 Live Script Read 34 with David Wenham David Wenham Petr Lom & Corrine van Egeraat Naina Sen diff.net.au 2 3 th 7.15pm Welcome to the 8th 14 Thu Darwin International Film Festival ASIA IN FOCUS Darwin festival of film, whether Since 2015, the Northern it’s giving local audiences Territory Government has proudly unique access to the best new partnered with the Darwin Film films the world has to offer or Society to deliver the Darwin showcasing the best in cinema International Film Festival. from our region. INDIGENOUS We are pleased to partner VISIONS, for example, with DIFF again in 2017. As well Lipstick Under celebrates the Territory’s strong as showcasing our vibrant screen Indigenous cultural heritage. industry, DIFF delights visitors to We are particularly honoured to our tropical Top End, supporting include the NT premiere of the our tourism industry and local My Burkha much anticipated documentary businesses. honouring the life of Dr. G This year’s program includes Yunupingu. the extraordinary Cinema 360, Along with the iconic Deckchair Welcome to the 8th Darwin DIFF would not be which will bring an immersive, Directed by ALANKRITA SHRIVASTAVA SPECIAL GUEST Cinema and wet season movie International Film Festival, the possible without the hard full-dome planetarium cinema to program Flix in the Wet, Darwin Northern Territory’s foremost work of our team based at the the Darwin Waterfront Precinct Film Society is founder and operator celebration of screens arts and Deckchair Cinema, and the and will give festival goers a new OPENING NIGHT | NT PREMIERE of the annual Darwin International cinema. ongoing support of the Darwin film experience. Film Festival. And what a festival! It’s another historical Film Society, Festivals NT and I congratulate the whole OPENING NIGHT GALA WITH LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND DECKCHAIR CINEMA DFS is investing in DIFF more year for DIFF as we introduce Screen Territory. DIFF team for their tireless work SPECIAL GUEST AAHANA KUMRA than ever this year, specifically in Darwin’s first full dome cinema So, phones off everyone - in preparation for this year’s 2017 CTC and welcome our first-ever festival. The contribution from enabling the SPARK Short Film it’s time for the show to begin. India international guest, Mumbai- staff and volunteers is invaluable Initiative to get off the ground. Set in the crowded by-lanes of small Based in Mumbai, India, Aahana Kumra SPARK aside, we have an incredibly based actress Aahana Kumra. TIMOTHY PARISH to DIFF’s ongoing success. town India, Lipstick Under My Burkha is a popular theatre, Bollywood and 117 mins exciting program on offer this year, Kumra is star of our Opening Director, Darwin International I encourage Territorians and chronicles the secret lives of four television actress. She plays one of the result of significant growth Hindi with English subtitles Night film, Lipstick Under My Film Festival visitors to experience DIFF and I women in search of a little freedom. the four leading ladies in Lipstick Burkha, a black comedy feature look forward to seeing you all at facilitated by 3 years of committed Though stifled and trapped by Under My Burkha, one of the most Comedy, Drama initially banned in India, it also a movie soon. funding from the NT Government. conservative conventions, these four discussed films of 2017 - highly marks the beginning of our ASIA In fact, a big thanks to all our women claim their desires through controversial and initially banned in IN FOCUS program. LAUREN MOSS partners, without whose assistance small acts of courage and stealthy India despite winning multiple awards ASIA IN FOCUS is just Minister for Tourism and Culture it’d be a very different DIFF. Enjoy! rebellion. at international film festivals. one of a handful of themes of this year’s festival. Each theme JEFF COULTER Audaciously outspoken about women’s has a special resonance for a Darwin Film Society Chair sexual desires and fantasies, both WINNER visually and verbally. GRAND JURY PRIZE Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL Aahana DE FILMS DE FEMMES Darwin International Film Festival takes place on Larrakia Land. Kumra The Darwin Film Society pay respect to the Indigenous owners, past, present and future. 4 Tickets and info at diff.net.au 5 th 9.15pm7.15pm 17 Sun NEW TERRITORY The SPARK Short Film Initiative guides th 8.30pm local emerging filmmakers from script to screen. In early 2017, these 4 short films Best of Territory Shorts 17 Sun existed solely in script form. They were submitted along with more than twenty others to SPARK’s independent judging panel, and went on to receive support required to turn them into fully-fledged DISCOVER SOME OF THE BEST NEW SHORTS, INDIGENOUS short films to premiere on the big screen at Darwin International Film Festival. MADE RIGHT HERE IN THE TERRITORY. VISIONS Support included seed funding, as well as mentorship and workshop opportunities The Darwin Film Society is the major DECKCHAIR CINEMA DECKCHAIR CINEMA and introductions to participating sponsor of this bold new initiative, also industry professionals. Event proceeded supported by Screen Territory. by NT Filmmakers Network Meeting. Carry the Flag The Greedy Emu Bakala Finding Mawiranga Written by Richard Mark Written by Richard Directed by Danielle Maclean Directed by Terrah Guymala Directed by Nik Lachajczak Directed by Dylan River Sumatra Roy and Matt Garrick Snowdrops Keep Campbell and Penelope 2017 28 mins 2017 12 mins 2017 15 mins 2017 15 mins He's crooning for a bruising Mules Directed by Matt Garrick Falling on My Bed A visiting Indonesian crooner is caught Directed by Will Tinapple Produced by Angela A Territory story based on true events There is a rich and powerful This songline runs from Croker Steve (Bakala) Wurramara first After years of haunting silence, up in Darwin’s seedy underbelly in this Madden Produced by Penelope story stitched into a few pieces Island to the Katherine region noticed signs of Machado Tom E. Lewis returns to his moody, film noir inspired tale of lust When underwear goes missing from Mules and Richard of coloured fabric of a man and takes in central western Joseph Disease in his late Grandmothers' country, seeking and longing. clotheslines across Darwin, police investigation leads to a surprising twist Campbell whose design created meaning Arnhemland. It is the story of teens and has spent his entire the permission of Lawmen to in this quirky comedy. for a nation of people once Emu as an old woman, her adult life challenging the learn Dhumbul, the Morning invisible to the mainland of greed in not sharing food with progressive effects of this cruel Star ceremony. With his family's Australia. Celebrate the 25th her grandchildren, the way they disease. Driven by a desire for blessing, and the spirits and stars Deadline Written by Jane Hampson Lured Written by Lee Frank anniversary of the creation of tricked her out of necessity a better future for himself and as his guides, Tom prepares to Directed by Dixi Joy Directed by Maria the Torres Strait Islander Flag as so that they could eat food his family, Bakala is searching sing his way to the mysterious Be a newsmaker not a newsbreaker You’ll be hooked Bankier and Jane Reynolds and Andre we journey into the Straits with themselves, her revenge on for a cure. He explores the Sandy Island Mawiranga. The pressure of a mounting deadline Hampson Two mates are fishing in the crocodile Sawenko Bala B to uncover and honour them by hurling a throwing stick land and the sea of the Groote at the MT News leads the journalists infested waters of the Territory - but the life and times of his late at them, and the way it comes Archipelago, making balms Produced by Jane Hampson Produced by Lee Frank to take drastic measures in this tabloid one of them is keeping a terrible secret.