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	Sydney Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The festival runs for two weeks each year in June and showcasing Australian, international and alternative films.
		The festival remained at Sydney University until 1968, at which time it moved to the Wintergarden in Rose Bay.
		An audience award is nominated at the end of the festival and the Dendy short film awards occurs in the first day of the festival, with the winners announced at the opening night of the SFF.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Film_Festival (235 words)

	Brisbane International Film Festival
		Filmed in locations near Brisbane with a local crew and support from the Queensland Government's film funding arm, the Pacific Film and Television Commission, Walk the Talk is a fl comedy about an aspiring but misguided talent agent who sets up business using money from his paraplegic girlfriend's compensation payment.
		The film had opened the Sydney Film Festival in June; but the version which screened there was not the final cut.
		The film follows the effect of a terrible crime on a rather ineffectual police officer assigned to the case.
	www.filmfestivals.com /int/overviews/2000/brisbane_00.htm (1943 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - Sydney Film Festival Pulls 'Ken Park' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film, written by Harmony Korine, was slated for screening on June 17 and 18.
		The Office of Film and Literature Classification first refused to classify the film -- which effectively means it cannot be screened legally -- as it depicted sexual themes "in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency, and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
		Festival director Gayle Lake told the attendees that a review of the original decision was upheld by the OFLC's review panel, which cited "child sexual abuse" and "sexualized violence" as its key reasons.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---17319,00.html (211 words)

	Hidden Face: Asian Cinema and the Sydney Film Festival
		Many festival directors I have spoken to over the last year believe this is one of the strongest years for Asian films in recent history.” That's a quote from director Gayle Lake's introductory notes to the 47th Sydney Film Festival held in 2000.
		Film writer and critic Anchalee Chaiworaporn (2) has described Thai cinema as having a two-tier structure – a tiny, independently produced arthouse circuit and a larger, commercially orientated entertainment slate.
		Where the Sydney Film Festival chooses to concentrate that focus in the future may be the deciding factor in its survival.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/03/27/asian_cinema_sydneyff.html (1960 words)

	Sydney Film Festival Information - History and Controversies
		During the festival's humble student beginnings, films were screened at university theatres before moving to public venues in the city and suburbs.
		Each year the Festival opens and closes with Gala parties; many times the theme of the party is in tune with the film being screened during the Opening and Closing Galas.
		The Sydney Film Festival was born at the University of Sydney on 11 July, 1954.
	www.ukhotmovies.com /film-festivals/sydney-film-festival (950 words)

	Sydney Film Festival A sympathetic look at the complexities of old age Innocence, written and directed by Paul Cox
		Claire's spirit and passions have been reawakened and although she is afraid of the consequences for her family, she eventually decides to leave the marriage and follow her heart and the allure of exploring her first love again.
		The film concludes with her funeral and an apparent reconciliation between the two old men.
		Although films about those in their last years are not uncommon, Innocence challenges the usual cinematic clichés, which portray the elderly as figures of mirth, or pity, with few emotional requirements.
	wsws.org /articles/2000/jul2000/sff3-j11.shtml (1125 words)

	51st Sydney Film Festival (NSW)
		Film Highlights are obviously Hero and Zatoichi which are both great period and martial arts films.
		I never thought I'd see the day I'd watch a uplifting Takeshi Kitano film but it comes at the same time we see Hero released at long last.
		Oh and if you've ever sat through a film and thought "needs more Godzilla", now's the opportunity to catch the original Atomic-Powered Killer Morning-Breath monster himself on the big screen.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /event.php?ID=SIFF2004 (317 words)

	45th Sydney Film Festival 1998
		Sydney’s festival, for example, began on Friday night with the Australian premiere of James Bogle’s appropriately named “In The Winter Dark”, starring Brenda Blethyn and Ray Barrett.
		Sydney subscribers will also be the first to see Robert Duvall’s “The Apostle”, the Japanese “Hana-Bi” which won the top prize in Venice last September and young English filmmaker Shane Meadows’s extraordinary debut “Twentyfourseven”.
		The Sydney Film Festival has a number of important spin-offs, not the least being the Travelling Film Festival which tours thirteen centres in N.S.W., Queensland and the Northern Territory.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/film_reviews/article_47.asp?MSID=685c63643bae48d1bc429f1a06a22cd9 (659 words)

	Report on the 48th Sydney Film Festival
		The film is book-ended with the window of a metal hospital/ prison door closing, suggesting an equation between birth and prison in that country for women.
		This film looks at the life and relationships of a female to male transsexual Robert Eads while he is dying of ovarian cancer, and more broadly of the very significant issues faced by the transgender community.
		The film follows Marie's meanderings, as she has breakfast, shops, eats in a cafe, looks for a flat and meets a new lover, all the while in quiet restrained denial, believing her husband is still alive and nearby.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/01/15/sff_report.html (2853 words)

	PM - Film censorship causes uproar at Sydney Film Festival
		Film censorship causes uproar at Sydney Film Festival
		Film festivals, with audiences that have to be over eighteen, have in the past shown unclassified material.
		Film director Larry Clark says it might look real, but in fact it's not, and anyway his film is about much more than teenage sex.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s881144.htm (850 words)

	Sydney International Film Festival 03
		The 2003 Sydney Film Festival was one of the most consistently enjoyable - albeit unspectacular - festivals in director Gayle Lake's reign.
		However the under-representation of Asian films in her programming, and the lack of quality on display, is a sad testimony as to why Sydney needs Paul De Carvalho's and Juanita Kwok's Sydney Asian Pacific Film Festival, when Melbourne and Brisbane seem to be able to survive without a similar entity.
		Whether this is the result of poor programming (I counted 9 films that Gayle lake probably saw at Pusan) or whether the director's of the Melbourne and Brisbane festivals have outmanoeuvred her when it comes to inviting films, it is difficult to say.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /article.php?ID=siff2003 (582 words)

	Australian government bans Sydney Film Festival movie
		Festival president Cathy Robinson told the media that the review panel had deliberately introduced the issue of “child sexual abuse” to confuse debate over the film.
		There were no grounds for banning Ken Park, she said, because the actors were not children, festival audiences were required to be over 18 years, and the issues raised by the film were serious and worthy of examination by adults.
		In fact, film festivals in Australia, like many of their counterparts internationally, were initially established in order to challenge government restrictions on artistic and intellectual freedom and provide access to serious and ground-breaking international cinema.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/sydn-j16.shtml (1701 words)

	52nd Sydney Film Festival Some interesting documentaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival early this year its producers celebrated with a party on the New York Mercantile Exchange trading floor, with a giant American flag—made from red, white and blue balloons—hanging from the wall.
		Bradbury told audiences at the Sydney Film Festival, where the movie premiered, that 11,000 US soldiers, together with 8,000 Australian troops, were conducting military exercises in Queensland in June and that, contrary to government denials, would probably be using depleted uranium weapons.
		Although Gordon’s film is largely apolitical—it contains no direct editorial comment on the repressive Stalinist regime or the imperialist blockade—it punctures the ongoing fl propaganda by Washington and its allies, and gives some indication of the deep-seated animosity amongst ordinary people to US imperialism and their determination to resist any future attacks against their country.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/sff4-j21.shtml (3114 words)

	Sydney Film Festival 2000
		One area Sydney is better: the projection quality at SFF this year was excellent (unlike the atrocious display by 1999 MIFF projectionists, where 25% of everything I saw was marred by soft-focus).
		She worked on his later films in the production/ADing departments, and was a close friend of his leading up to his death (in 1990).
		But the film is not about this filmmaker, and this is what gives it its humanism: the focus is on the cares and problems of his parents, his friend, his nephew.
	www.innersense.com.au /productions/writings/sydfest.html (3950 words)

	Preview - 47th Sydney Film Festival
		As I write this, the Sydney Film Festival is a few days away from beginning.
		Kevin's displacement provides the laughs in the film, but he is also "quite at home" roaming the world - a far cry from all the alienation effects we usually witness with displaced characters.
		A film-maker of extraordinary muscularity and humanity, whose films could be compared with those of Robert Bresson, Clarke took inspiration from the hard stuff of, often institutionalised, life.
	www.innersense.com.au /productions/writings/sydfestpreview.html (976 words)

	Films without frontiers - smh.com.au
		She estimates she has seen 600 to 800 films at international festivals as more than 2500 films were considered for the festival.
		Lake says her trips to international festivals reveal that many film-makers are exploring how people relate to each other, often using characters yearning for a place to be free.
		While the gutsy rock won't be to everyone's taste, the film's appeal is Crowe's charisma and the emerging details of his longtime friendship with guitarist Billy Dean Cochran, whose choice was charity work rather than stardom.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/30/1022569813806.html (1769 words)

	CNN - Film festival highlights Sydney as movie mecca - June 22, 1999
		And unlike some other screen jams, organizers say, the 46th annual Sydney Film Festival is less about competition and more about the art of cinema.
		Gayle Lake, director of the Sydney Film Festival, agrees.
		Venice festival winner, this year's "Cabaret Balkan," is being showcased along with the German hit "Run Lola Run" (1998) a favorite at the North American Festival.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/22/aussie.film.fest (791 words)

	eFilmCritic - Sydney Film Festival Diary Part II
		This film decides to concentrate on the people behind the scandal and it's just more than a little disturbing that the Bush family name gets a few mentions with connections to the men behind Enron.
		Before the screening of Paradise Now a film on the subject of terrorism we were treated to the Indonesian short film Klayaban.
		This intense crime drama had the look and feel of a David Fincher film, but the drama and characters were so thoroughly unlikeable that the viewer was felt quite disenfranchised from the film.
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=1521 (1305 words)

	2004 Sydney Film Festival [sydney-events.com] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 2004 the Sydney Film Festival celebrates its 51st anniversary, entering its second half-century of bringing the best of local and international film to the Sydney masses.
		Over 16 days the Festival is presenting over 230 dramas, documentaries, shorts, including some 85 Australian Premieres and six World Premieres.
		On the top of this, the Festival is debuting a new media program called Scope, showcasing the world’s leading new media artists.
	www.sydneyevents.com /sydney?eid=3169 (114 words)

	Slow fade to black - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		As Sydney sees another film festival opening, Australia needs to learn the lessons from abroad to halt the slide of its industry, writes Sacha Molitorisz.
		In January, the Australian Film Commission released figures showing that in 2004 the local share of box office takings was just 1.3 per cent.
		I think to a large extent the Film Finance Corporation [FFC] is to blame [and] their requirements for a commercial interest.
	smh.com.au /news/Film/Slow-fade-to-black/2005/06/08/1118123898226.html (2064 words)

	52nd Sydney Film Festival :: Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sydney Film Festival officially launched its most daring and diverse program ever last night and the highly sought after tickets are now on sale.
		March 23, 2004: Sydney Film Festival today announced the appointment of film journalist and industry commentator, Lynden Barber to the position of Artistic Director for the 2005 and 2006 festival.
		Sydney Film Festival is also proud to host the World Movies Festival Club at the State Theatre.
	2004.sydneyfilmfestival.org /page/media.html (1116 words)

	WENDY DENT Independent Films: Sydney International Film Festival review
		Yes, in the words of Festival director Lynden Barber, it was a “cracker” of a British film ('My Summer of Love') that opened the 52nd Sydney International Film Festival.
		Sydney International Film Festival has for a long time had the maturity to be well above the role of
		I personally have seen my own purely Australian-made films included as rare foreign entries in US ‘international film festivals’ though listed in their programs as American.
	www.wendydent.com /filmreviews3.html (1453 words)

	Closeup
		The film is set in an isolated coastal town in South Australia where simmering racial tensions explode with tragic consequences.
		It won the audience vote award for the most popular documentary and the most popular film overall at the 2002 Brisbane Film Festival, and was the only non-American documentary film selected to screen in competition at the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival 2002 held in New York.
		The Music Village Lunchtime Festival Club features a stimulating mix of talks on Culture and Migration by expert commentators; recitals by some of London's best diasporic storytellers and poets: and a series of informal concerts by visiting international artists all in the intimate setting of the Gallery's beautiful open-air courtyard.
	www.theoctobergallery.com /events.htm (2171 words)

	Sydney Film Festival logs 38% jump in ticket sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SYDNEY -- The 51st Sydney Film Festival closed with a screening of Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's mixed-genre "Zatoichi," with organizers announcing prize winners and a 9% increase in audience attendance.
		The festival also bade farewell to outgoing director Gayle Lake and general manager and CEO Fiona Allan.
		Total admissions for the 10-day festival stood at 132,500, according to estimates at press time.
	www.showeast.com /filmgroup/thr_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000554518 (135 words)

	Sydney Film Festival 2004
		This year, the festival promises to be bigger than ever with films from as far afield as Mongolia, Egypt, Bhutan and Bolivia, and the addition of several new venues, including more screenings at the Dendy Opera Quays, and special events at the Opera House and The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
		The festival starts off with a bit of drama from across the Tasman, with New Zealand film In My Father's Den promising to keep audiences on the edge of their seats on Opening Night.
		The festival is also holding a retrospective of films by Michelangelo Antonioni, featuring some of this legendary Italian directors memorable films, including Blow Up, L'avventura, La Notte, Red Desert, Beyond The Clouds and Chung Kuo Cina, as well as screenings over a dozen of Antonioni's short films.
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue42/SFF.htm (570 words)

	Sydney Fringe Festival: Film and Video
		The audience was torn, the finalists nerve racked, you could have heard a pin drop until...the applause climbed higher and higher on the decibel counter.
		One of the winning films, Justin Case's"Final Cut", went on to even further acclaim as the only Australian short film to be invited to the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
		The Film & Video Festival is an opportunity to see the latest and the greatest from behind the cameras - and that can mean anyone.
	www.loud.net.au /projects/fringeTV/film.htm (518 words)

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	www.kisswife.com /sydney.html (866 words)

	State of the Arts archive
		The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Rosemary Cameron as the new Festival Director.
		Sydney pianist and composer, Matt McMahon is the recipient of the 2005 MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Jazz.
		It was announced at the Westin Hotel today, that Sydney based artist, Susan Cesarini is the winner of the 2004 Viewer’s Choice for the 40th annual Portia Geach Memorial Award, with her portrait of the sculptor, Alan Somerville.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news/archive.asp (12628 words)

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