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Discover the Darwin Waterfront’s year-round events program. | waterfront.nt.gov.au DIFF program.indd 1 8/17/2016 2:21:00 PM 2 FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT Words With Gods 5 CONTENTS FILMS BEYOND THE BIG SCREEN Stingray Sisters 6 Zero Point - Art Exhibition 26 Creative Control 7 Global Currents - Outdoor Projections 26 Junction 48 9 The Matrix - Virtual Reality Cinema 27 Under The Shadow 10 Rio 2096 - A Story of Love & Fury 11 Zach’s Ceremony 12 INDUSTRY EVENTS Visualising Top End Research Conference 28 How To Let Go Of The World 13 DIFF Film School - Workshop Program 29 Mr Gaga 14 NT Screen Industry Summit 30-31 Tangerine 15 Down Under 18 Hardcore Henry 19 FESTIVAL CALENDAR 16-17 SPECIAL EVENTS TICKETS & INFORMATION 32 Silencio ft Soundtrak (live) 8 Animatic: International Animation Collection 20 ReelOzInd! 21 Capricornia Film Awards 22 Darwin Underground Film Festival 23 FAMILY MATINEE SESSIONS Mune: Guardian Of The Moon 24 Khalil Ghibran's The Prophet 25 3 WELCOME TO THE 7th DARWIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Darwin International Film Festival is a celebration of cinema in all its many forms. Growing in size since last year, the festival embraces a full program of world class feature films, documentaries and animations at the magical Deckchair Cinema as well as numerous satellite screenings across Darwin; including workshops, projection art and even a virtual reality cinema. This year’s festival strives to connect more deeply with the vibrant Territory film industry and will culminate in the inaugural Capricornia Film Awards, celebrating homegrown excellence and fostering more collaboration. I’m proud to share this incredible collection of films which address many important issues we are facing both locally and globally. At its best - cinema is a medium for peace, that can increase our understanding of other cultures, expand our minds, connect with our hearts, open up dialogues, and create windows into other worlds. Let’s go there. Timothy Parish, Director, Darwin International Film Festival The NT Government , through FestivalsNT and Screen Territory, is proud to support the Darwin International Film Festival through annual funding of $70,000. The Darwin International Film Festival is an important event on the FestivalsNT calendar, providing Territorians and visitors with a curated program of local, interstate and international films. The Festival also provides encouragement and opportunities for Territorians through workshops and forums to advance film making skills. The Capricornia Film Awards Awards promote and highlight local talent, providing inspiration and encouragement for budding artistes in the film arena. Presented at the iconic Deckchair Cinema, enjoy the 2016 Darwin International Film Festival. Andrew Hopper, General Manager, NT Major Events Company/FestivalsNT Darwin Film Society (DFS) is very excited to bring you DIFF 2016. It’s been a huge year for the DFS, not only do we now boast a record-breaking membership base of over 1000, we’ve also invested in significant upgrades to Deckchair Cinema, including a beautiful brand new harbourside Dining Deck. DIFF 2016 is no small feat either, with the support of our valued partners Screen Territory and Festivals NT, it’s the first year DFS has been able to contract a Festival Director, and Tim Parish has done a great job in making DIFF bigger and better than ever. Enjoy the Festival! Jeff Coulter, Darwin Film Society Chair 4 7.15pm THURSDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER OPENING NIGHT WORDS WITH GODS AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE OPENING NIGHT GALA with live entertainment and special guests WARWICK THORNTON & DAMIAN WALSHE-HOWLING ‘Words with Gods’ is a strikingly shot anthology film 2015 | Mexico | USA | Japan | India | Kurdistan | directed by nine internationally acclaimed directors, UC15+ |101mins |English & Spanish with English subs tackling questions of faith and spirituality across the DIRECTED by Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams, Babel); Hector Babenco world. Each story is set in diverse locations ranging (Kiss of the Spider Woman); Álex de la Iglesia; Bahman Ghobadi; from the Australian outback to the post-tsunami coast of Japan; from a mosque in Kurdistan to a high-rise in Amos Gitai; Emir Kusturica; Mira Nair; Hideo Nakata; Warwick Mumbai. The films are linked by the collective search for Thornton (Samson & Delilah, The Dark Side) connection with the divine. One standout chapter in the series is directed Alice Springs filmmaker Australia’s Warwick Thornton’s ‘True Gods’ is Warwick Thornton and stars Darwin-born actress the most visually lush of the films, [his] camera Miranda Tapsell. “ luxuriating in the deep russet expanses of the Also screening short film MESSIAH directed by actor/ outback desert.” - Guy Lodge, Variety director Damian Walshe-Howling and starring Territory ” legend David Gulpilil. Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival VENUE: Deckchair Cinema BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT DIFF.NET.AU 5 7.15pm FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER STINGRAY SISTERS PREMIERE FESTIVAL SCREENING FEATURING Q&A with special guests Alice, Noni and Grace Eather and Helen Djimbarrawala Williams Born to an Aboriginal mother and a Caucasian father, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PREMIERE Noni, Alice and Grace Eather (aka the Stingray Sisters) 2016 | Australia from Maningrida have always had to move between 90 mins | English and Yolngu Matha with English subtitles worlds and cultures. Negotiating challenges that most DIRECTED by Katrina Channells of us will never experience, this three-part documentary follows these Kunibidji women as they navigate the tricky terrain of young adulthood, being “If there’s one Australian reality series you should black in Australia, and standing up against the prospect watch it’s this one... [T]he crowd-funded series of sea-bed mining in their traditional lands. “ was shot over four years on a minuscule budget Entertaining, heart-wrenching and always surprising, of $40,000 with the simple aim of offering viewers award-winning filmmaker Katrina Channells opens up a rare insight into life in a remote Indigenous a window into life in a remote community as audiences have never seen it. community.” - Belinda Jepsen, Mama Mia VENUE: Deckchair Cinema ” 6 9.30pm FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER CREATIVE CONTROL In a world where communication is increasingly – and AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE sometimes exclusively – digital, virtual reality seems to 2015 USA | France be the next inevitable step. Director and co-writer UC15+ | 97 mins | English Benjamin Dickinson plays David, an ambitious advertising executive at a hip Brooklyn agency, who, with DIRECTED by Benjamin Dickinson the help of comedian Reggie Watts (as himself) uses AUGMENTA, a next-gen iteration of Google Glasses, to “For a film about technology’s growing seduce his best friend’s girlfriend - or at least a virtual version of her. Told with a mixture of moral cautionary dehumanization, this stylized beauty is a tale and buddy-film hilarity, Dickinson’s film describes a “ frisky, formidable temptation.” very near future in which entitled, teched-up millennials - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone dabble in technology’s dark arts, raising questions about VR’s moral implications. ” Screening with short film A TERRIBLE BEAUTY (11mins) Special Jury Award, Directed by Sarah-Jane Woulehan. SXSW Film Festival VENUE: Deckchair Cinema BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT DIFF.NET.AU 7 7.15pm SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER SILENCIO with SOUNDTRAK (live) SILENCIO draws a timeline: from the very birth of ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: experimental motion pictures - the first animation - BEN WALSH is is celebrated as one of Australia’s most through to the most current technologies. This accomplished percussionists and performers. Touring performance will explore over 100 years of painstaking professionally as a musician and drummer since the age endeavour to create impossible dreams through moving of 18, his musical accolades cross many styles from Cir- image. Including rare films from early animation legends cus, Theatre, Dance, Electronic music, World. This last Hans Ricter and Emil Cohl, live musical duo SOUNDTRAK decade he has composed for orchestra and film through create a wonderful aural world to complement these projects such as Shaun Tan’s The Arrival with Orchestra cinematic gems. of the Underground. Featuring the sounds of master percussionist BEN SHENZO GREGORIO is a multi-award winning musician WALSH and string virtuoso SHENZO GREGORIO - known for his work with the celebrated FOURPLAY quar- SOUNDTRAK brings together strings, drums and tech- tet. He is currently the only stunt violinist in the world nology to make some of the most unlikely sonic textures due to his love of suspending himself from heights up to possible from two human beings. 28 metres from various famous landmarks across the world while performing. He is the recipient of an ARIA VENUE: Deckchair Cinema Award, the Golden Fiddle Award and Best of the Adelaide Fringe Award. 8 SPECIAL EVENT TICKETS $24 full $18 concession 9.15pm SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER JUNCTION 48 Director Udi Aloni (Forgiveness) is known for his radical NORTHERN TERRITORY PREMIERE storytelling style. JUNCTION 48 is a love story about two 2016 | ISRAEL/PALESTINE aspiring Palestinian hip hop artists, Kareem (real-life hip UC15+ | 95 mins | Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles hop artist Tamer Nafar) and Manar, set against the tense backdrop of the mixed Jewish-Arab suburb of Lod, just DIRECTED by Udi Aloni outside of Tel Aviv. Kareem and Manar dream of making music that will transcend the divided country they live in. “Setting the Israel-Palestine conflict to a But when Kareem’s family is struck with tragedy while hip-hop soundtrack, Junction 48 is a local Kareem is out on the town with his hoodlum friends, “ everything changes, and in the face of Israeli bigotry story with global resonance.” and a neighbourhood riddled with crime and drugs, the - Stephen Dalton; The Hollywood Reporter young lovers must overcome great hurdles if they are to survive. ” Screening with NT short film BREAK THE CYCLE Audience Award, created at the DON DALE YOUTH DETENTION CENTRE.