2018 IN REVIEW
Our festival is over for 2018 - thanks to everyone who came and joined us!
This year’s lineup included several major award winners. The controversial winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin, Touch Me Not is a stylish hybrid doc about physical intimacy while Minding the Gap, with twelve awards, focuses on three skateboarding buddies and the gap between fathers and sons in a small Illinois town.
We kicked off with Speak Up, a fast-paced French film about a class of bubbly French university students navigating the cut and thrust of public speaking and we closed with an exhilarating and intimate portrait of Ian McKellen in McKellen: Playing the Part.
Nearly half of this year’s films were directed by women, and we’re thrilled that several of them were our guests at the festival - Gabrielle Brady, director of the powerfully poetic Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Christy Garland with the suspenseful What Walaa Wants, and Catherine Scott screens her deeply moving The BackTrack Boys.
Featuring Manuel Xyrakis from Ainslie IGA
Featuring Charles Reeves, Deputy High Commissioner for Canada
What Walaa Wants Director Q & A
Interviewer: Genevieve Jacobs
Panelist: Christy Garland, Director
Interviewer: Simon Weaving
Panelist: Vicki Lock, IP Manager for CSIRO
Panelist: Professor Tom Faunce from the ANU School of Law
Island Of The Hungry Ghosts Director Q & A
Interviewer: Genevieve Jacobs
Panelist: Gabrielle Brady, Director
Panelist: Poh Lin Lee, Trauma Therapist and main subject
Panelist: Dr John Minns from the Refugee Action Committee, Canberra
Closing Night Audience Award Announcement
Featuring Genevieve Jacobs
Below, for posterity, is the full slate of films we screened. Click on any to watch the trailer or find out more.
Team
Festival Director: Deborah Kingsland
Festival Producer: Hannah de Feyter
Founder and Co-Curator: Simon Weaving
Project Management: Lavanna Neal, Alice Taylor and Zoe Kooyman
Event Coordinator: Jeremy Jones
Graphic Design: Daniel Hadiwibawa
Website: Joshua Paul
Interns: Alasdair Barnes and Laura Giacomin
Volunteers: Rossen de Ramos, Carolyn Voss, Amanda-Jo Birchall, Tim Daly, Camilla Blunden, Glynis Stokes and many more. You know who you are. Thank you!
Stronger than Fiction Committee: Alice Taylor, John Frohlich, Hannah de Feyter, Zoe Kooyman and Lavanna Neal
Festival Trailer Editor: Frank Oly
Festival Photography: Konrad Lenz
Special Thanks: Diana Streak, Cris Kennedy, Sophia Hamblin-Wang, Agency 9, John Frohlich, Pamela Slocum, Brett Yeats and Tina Van Raay
Ainslie IGA Short Films
This year the team partnered with Ainslie IGA - our major sponsor - to create two short films about the family run business. The two films premiered alongside our feature line up, featuring Manuel Xyrakis & Alex Sloan.
Producer/Director – Deborah Kingsland & Hannah de Feyter
Camera: Christian Doran
Additional Camera: Kim Beamish
Sound: Tim Duck
Editing: Hannah de Feyter
Colourist: Annica Mott
Production: Zoe Kooyman and Carolyn Voss
Photography: Olia Balabina
Audio Engineering: Sam Andrews
Music: Audio Network