News and Articles
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23 August 2010 FTI Host Manhattan Short 2010
Screening in over 200 cities across 6 continents, FTI is the West Australian host for the 12th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. Announced this week were the ten short films finalists.
The films will not only entertain a global audience, but will be judged by them as well… More »
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28 July 2010 The Director's Cut chosen for US Festival
Perth produced film The Director’s Cut, has been accepted into the Salt Lake City Film Festival in Utah. Shot locally, it’s cast and crew feature some of WA’s best emerging talent, and will be screening for American audiences in August.
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8 July 2010 Vote For WA in the IF Awards
The IF Award nominees are now online for public voting and there is a huge number of WA films in competition for the coveted Australian awards. There are five WA features nominated, ranging from box office success, Bran Nue Dae , to the low budget Indie comedy screening at Revelation Perth Film Festival, A Day at the Oasis . West Australian expats are also key creatives or producers of foreign shot, The Waiting City and Passengers . More »
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7 July 2010 Little Sparrows to Feature at MIFF
Following its successful world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, Little Sparrows has been selected to screen at the upcoming 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
Directed and produced by Taiwan-born Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen, Little Sparrows tells the story of Susan, her three daughters and the choices they confront when her breast cancer returns… More »
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6 July 2010 Beyond the Frame: introducing filmmakers, media artists and audiences to fulldome
The emergence of ‘destination cinema’ and the proliferation of large-format screens in public spaces present a challenge – and opportunity – to filmmakers working in traditional screen formats. At the very least a new cinematic language is required, one that takes account of the audience’s very different experience of stories presented on large-format, ‘frameless’, screens. As Academy-Award winning director and Dome Lab tutor, Ben Shedd, puts it, “the frame is our frame of reference”, when we remove it “we create virtual first person experiences rather than second hand events”. More »
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