GOLD COAST FILM FESTIVAL
– SPECIAL FILM GUESTS AND EVENTS
– SPECIAL INDUSTRY GUESTS AND EVENTS (REELLIFE)
Friday 11 April – Sunday 13 April 2014
SPECIAL GUESTS OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS INCLUDING:
– Galore director Rhys Graham and cast Lily Sullivan (Mental, TV’s Rake) and Aliki Matangi.
– The Polygon director Kimberley Joseph home from LA and Director of Photography Scott Chrisman.
– Canopy director Aaron Wilson.
– Rodney Fickle – Online Athlete director, Scott Dickson.
– All This Mayhem director, Eddie Martin and Tas Pappas.
Special film guests and events
LOCATION: Birch, Carroll and Coyle Cinemas
Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, Hooker Boulevard, Broadbeach
gcfilmfestival.com/page/164/BCC-Pacific-Fair
CONTACT PERSON: Angela Samut – 0435 851 302 for any media requests including tickets.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL
EVENT: Galore – RED CARPET QUEENSLAND PREMIERE
SPECIAL GUESTS: Galore director Rhys Graham and cast Lily Sullivan (Mental, TV’s Rake) and Aliki Matangi
TIME: 5.00pm film commencement
Includes a special Q&A following the screening.
FILM DETAILS: Galore (Queensland premiere) directed by Rhys Graham (The Turning) stars Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues), Lily Sullivan (Mental, Rake), Toby Wallace (Return to Nim’s Island, Surviving Georgia) and Aliki Matangi and had its world premiere at the recent prestigious Berlinale.
Set against the 2003 Canberra bushfires, Galore sees four teens navigate the troubled waters of adolescent relationships in a world brimming with possibilities and contradictions.
EVENT: The Polygon – RED CARPET WORLD PREMIERE (Documentary film.)
SPECIAL GUESTS: The Polygon director Kimberley Joseph home from LA and Director of Photography Scott Chrisman
TIME: 7.00pm film commencement
Includes a special Q&A following the screening.
Special guests including the Hon. Ian Walker MP, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts
FILM DETAILS: The Polygon is the story of a Kazakh village that lies just 18 kilometers from the former Soviet Nuclear Test Site. Over forty years and 600 nuclear explosions left the land, water and people battling the effects of severe long term radiation exposure. Their plight has been ignored by both the Russian and Kazakh governments and their story has remained untold until now.
SATURDAY 12 APRIL
EVENT: Canopy – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
SPECIAL GUEST: Canopy director Aaron Wilson
TIME: 12.45pm film commencement
Includes a special Q&A following the screening.
FILM DETAILS: Canopy stars Khan Chittenden (Underbelly, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars) and Mo Tzu-yi (Father’s Lullaby) and having its world premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Canopy garnered positive reviews and was compared to other adventure subgenre films where one or two persons are alone against nature, a movement pioneered in 2013 by J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost and Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.
Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary. Transcending language and culture, Canopy is a cinematic tour de force exploring the collision of war, nature and its impact on humanity.
Festivals: Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Official selection Busan International Film Festival 2013
Official selection Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2013 -New Horizons special Jury Mention.
Official selection Stockholm International Film Festival 2013
EVENT: Rodney Fickle – Online Athlete (part of the GCFF ‘Queensland Showcase’.)
SPECIAL GUEST: Rodney Fickle – Online Athlete director, Scott Dickson
TIME: 7.15pm commencement
FILM DETAILS: Rodney Fickle: Online Athlete, a comedy by Gold Coaster and director Scott Dickson, stars Isaac Moody, Susie McCann and Kane Sarota.
Faced with the drudgery of his day to day routine, Rodney Fickle decides to enter the professional video gaming arena and challenge for the coveted title of ‘Online Athlete’.
This screening includes a pre-screening of the winning team of the 2014 Brisbane 48 Hour Film Project, Stinky Jim: Defender of the Earth, plus the winner of the GCFF ‘Movies of Our Lives’ competition
SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2014
EVENT: All This Mayhem, Australian skating documentary
SPECIAL GUESTS: All This Mayhem director, Eddie Martin and Tas Pappas
TIME: 3.15pm film commencement
Includes a special Q&A following the screening.
FILM DETAILS: All This Mayhem is an Australian skating documentary directed by Eddie Martin. An unflinching account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, the documentary tells the story of brothers Tas and Ben Pappas who rose to the pinnacle of their sport and then into a spiraling world of self-destruction.
Special industry guests and events (REELLIFE)
SATURDAY 12 APRIL
LOCATION: ‘Academy of Design’
Shop 150C Pacific Fair Shopping Centre
(underneath the cinemas / ground level)
MUSIC SEMINAR
TIME: 10.00am
SPECIAL GUEST: Queensland composer, Loic Valmy
Join regarded Queensland composer Loic Valmy, as he talks about the importance of music in film production, and how it can make all the difference.
CROWDFUNDING SEMINAR
TIME: 11.15am
SPECIAL GUESTS: Pozible co-founder Alan Crabbe and director Aaron Wilson (Canopy)
Pozible co-founder Alan Crabbe and director Aaron Wilson (Canopy) will discuss the limitless possibilities of crowdfunding before the Australian premiere of Aaron’s film Canopy.
SUNDAY 13 APRIL
TRANSMEDIA SEMINAR
TIME: 10.00am
SPECIAL GUEST: All-media producer Ester Harding (Stormsurfers 3D, I Am A Girl)
All-media producer Ester Harding (Stormsurfers 3D, I Am A Girl) will discuss the ways transmedia can help expand awareness of your film in ways you never dreamt.
AUDITIONING SEMINAR
TIME: 11.15am
SPECIAL GUESTS: SASS Management’s Ryan Verbruggen
SASS Management’s Ryan Verbruggen will take us inside the world of casting to offer trade secrets on how actors can nail their next audition!
FREE family classic SCREENIING
DATE: Saturday 12 April, 2014
FILM: Mary Poppins (1964)
TIMES: 11.30am + 3.00pm
ADDRESS: Helensvale Library and Community Centre,
Corner Lindfield Road and Sir John Overall Drive, Helensvale
NOTE: Tickets to Mary Poppins’ screenings are free but seats are limited. To secure your seat, please visit gcfilmfestival.com
Two banker’s children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. A change in the wind blows in an assertive nanny who matches the qualifications of the children and not the father. As she helps them magically explore the world around them the father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and must eventually deal with his own distance from his children. Director: Robert Stevenson. Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson.
The Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) presented by Pacific Fair Shopping Centre is being held at venues across the Gold Coast from 3 April – 13 April 2014.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.gcfilmfestival.com
