From St. Kilda to Kings Cross (Almost): Some Observations on the 2003 Sydney Film Festival Adrian Danks July 2003 Festival Reports The outrage over the Australia-wide banning of Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002) forestalled much of the broader media's critical discussion of the 20...
Hidden Face: Asian Cinema and the Sydney Film Festival Pauline Webber July 2003 Festival Reports Despite proclamations to the contrary, the portion of Asian cinema in recent years at the Sydney Film Festival is small. There is instead an overall bias toward films from English-speaking countries.
Daily Reports from the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2003 Festival Reports Posted Saturday 16 August (Festival Wrap-Up) Posted Thursday 7 August (A Cold Summer, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl) Posted Sunday 3...
Fespaco and the Transformations of Pan-African Film Promotion Niels Buch-Jepsen May 2003 Festival Reports Although the journey through Burkina Faso's savannah is indeed scenic, one would perhaps not expect soon to hit upon the film centre of Africa. Bu...
Face Masks at the 27th HKIFF Stephen Teo May 2003 Festival Reports The 27th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) opened on April 8th overshadowed by the deadly SARS virus. The festival was ...
Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Sydney Film Festival at 50 Tina Kaufman May 2003 Festival Reports The 50th Sydney Film Festival runs from 6 to 20 June 2003. Program information and ticketing is on the website. The 'Persistence of Vision' sympos...
Going Far for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Renata Murawska May 2003 Festival Reports Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) Minneapolis, Minnesota 6-9 March 2003 It was possible to set the Society for Cinema an...
Sundance Film Festival 2003 – The Independent Body Bérénice Reynaud March 2003 Festival Reports Sundance is festive, vulgar, commercial, unexpected, challenging. It is indeed popular and successful, but is it true, as some people keep complai...
How We Talk about Things: Report on the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Genevieve Yue March 2003 Festival Reports 22 January - 2 February 2003 In his introduction to the program guide, Simon Field sets out an ambitious agenda for the Rotterdam Film Festival...
Making a Song and Dance of It – 34th Hungarian Film Week Andrew James Horton March 2003 Festival Reports 28 January – 4 February When cinema first appeared at the end of the 19th century, there was a huge debate as to whether it could be considered...
A Report of Dreams of a Nation – A Palestinian Film Festival Jared Rapfogel March 2003 Festival Reports January 24-27, 2003, NYC http://www.dreamsofanation.org In New York City, a town largely defined by the presence of so many ethnic and nationa...
2003 Berlin Film Festival – A Report Peter Brunette March 2003 Festival Reports The Berlin Film Festival has always struggled with an inferiority complex in regard to its better-known rival, Cannes, which for starters takes pl...
Too Beautiful To Live; Too Young To Die: A Report on the 6th Bangkok International Film Festival Brandon Wee March 2003 Festival Reports (1) Bangkok International Film Festival 2003 10-21 January 2003 It would have been the event's sixth incarnation, but the blizzard of publ...
Preview of the Adelaide International Film Festival 2003 and an Interview with its Director, Katrina Sedgwick James Brown January 2003 Festival Reports Considering the South Australian government's continual recycling of the promotional dictum that we are "the festival state", it is ironic – and y...
Perspectives on the Ethereal: The 46th London Film Festival George Clark January 2003 Festival Reports (6 - 21, November 2002) The London Film Festival has taken place at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank, a hub for current redevelopmen...
An Industry of Philanthropy – Balkan film at the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival Andrew James Horton January 2003 Festival Reports 8-17 November 2002 Festival website: www.filmfestival.gr “I have always thought that European cinema should protect themselves…” said Nae Car...
The New York Film Festival 2002 – A Report Jared Rapfogel December 2002 Festival Reports The 40th anniversary of the New York Film Festival was a strange affair – a far more relevant event than in past years, but relevant in spite of i...
The 47th Cork Film Festival – A Report Maximilian Le Cain December 2002 Festival Reports The 47th Cork Film Festival took place between the 6th and 13th of October at three venues around Cork City. Although known mainly as a short film...
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge December 2002 Festival Reports Vancouver International Film Festival (all original titles as listed in the VIFF catalogue), September 26 - October 11 2002 Dragons & Tigers ...
Chinese films at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival – A Report Shelly Kraicer December 2002 Festival Reports Toronto International Film Festival, 4-14 September 2002 The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) affords an opportunity akin to an annua...
Toronto 2002: A Festival Report Girish Shambu December 2002 Festival Reports The 2002 Toronto International Film Festival (5th to 14th September) screened over 260 feature films in a variety of programs including: Galas (hi...
Inhaling a Unique Atmosphere – Central and East European Film at the 37th Karlovy Vary Andrew James Horton October 2002 Festival Reports 4-13 July 2002 Festival website: www.iffkv.cz In the 1970s and ‘80s, a film in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was...
WOW International Film Festival – A Preview Samantha Murray October 2002 Festival Reports The WOW International Film Festival runs from 17- 20 October 2002 in Sydney, Australia, before embarking on a national tour. For more information...
3rd Annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival: A Report Albert Fung October 2002 Festival Reports It's no surprise that the third annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) embraced sex and themed this year's Festival “sexuality”. Sex ha...
Unseen Cinema: An Interview with Bruce Posner John Conomos and Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports This interview was conducted on June 18, 2002. One of the two outstanding hallmark programs of this year's Sydney Film Festival was, besides th...
Baby Steps: Samples From the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival Jake Wilson July 2002 Festival Reports The most obvious lesson from the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival is that the definition of a film is more elastic than ever. Over half the inclusions ...
49th Sydney Film Festival – A Report Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports June 7-21, 2002 For a list of the Festival's award winners, click here. Curiously, the Sydney Film Festival has not spliced the word 'Intern...
Festival De Cannes 2002 – A Report George Papadopoulos July 2002 Festival Reports May 15-26 2002 Having attended the Cannes Film Festival as a film distributor on the lookout for films with the promise of commercial success,...
Spotlight on the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival: Festival Wrap-Up Various July 2002 Festival Reports Back to Daily Updates Posted Wednesday 24 July - Saturday 10 August Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) * * * by Anthony Carew K...
Daily Reports from the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) Posted Saturday 10 August (Roberto Succo) Posted Friday 9 August (The Son) Posted Thursday 8 Augus...
Daily Reports from the 11th Brisbane International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Sunday 21 July (The Commune (Paris 1871), The Universal Clock) Posted Friday 19 July (Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth) Posted Thursda...
The 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge May 2002 Festival Reports Hong Kong Kong International Film Festival, March 27 – April 4, 2002 Websites: www.hkiff.org.hk, www.aoihk.org, www.filmarchive.gov.hk Film...
The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema – An Affair to Remember Fiona Villella May 2002 Festival Reports An overview on this unique festival that defied all the odds to continue its strong reputation.
Bridging Cultures at the 11th Arizona International Film Festival C.J. Shane May 2002 Festival Reports Festival website: www.azfilmfest.com The theme of the 11th annual Arizona International Film Festival (AIFF), held April 11-21 in Tucson, was “...
Spotlights in the Dark – Argentine Films at the Buenos Aires IV International Festival of Independent Cinema Hit by the Crisis Daniela Espejo May 2002 Festival Reports A discussion on select Argentine films playing at Buenos Aires.
Negotiating Truth in the REAL Documentary Film (or is that Video?) – A Report on the 4th REAL: LIFE ON FILM International Documentary Festival Julian Savage May 2002 Festival Reports Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.