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Adelaide Film Festival

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Adelaide Film Festival
LocationAdelaide, Australia
Founded2003
Awards received2021 Ruby Awards "Best Festival"
AwardsFeature Fiction Award
Feature Documentary Award
Don Dunstan Award
The Jim Bettison and Helen James Award
Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative
INSITE Award
AFTRS International VR Award
DirectorsMat Kesting
(2019–)
Amanda Duthie
(2012–2018)
Katrina Sedgwick
(2002–2011)
Hosted byPatrons Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton
Festival date18–29 October 2023
Websiteadelaidefilmfestival.org

The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF, formerly ADLFF) is a film festival usually held for two weeks in mid-October in cinemas in Adelaide, South Australia. Originally presented biennially in March from 2003, since 2013 AFF has been held in October. Subject to funding, the festival has staged full or briefer events in alternating years; some form of event has taken place every year since 2015. From 2022 it takes place annually. It has a strong focus on local South Australian and Australian produced content, with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund (AFFIF) established to fund investment in Australian films.

Established in 2003 as Adelaide International Film Festival, it dropped "International" from its title after the inaugural edition, as it dropped its FIAPF membership the following year. It was, however, the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition, as well as being the first to fund film production directly.

The festival hosts a number of awards, including the Don Dunstan Awards (for lifetime contrtibution); Best Feature Fiction; Best Feature Documentary; Bettison & James Award; and others. In 2017 the International Virtual Reality Award was launched by AFF in partnership with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), known as the AFTRS ADL Film Fest International VR Award.

The 2020 Festival was scheduled to take place from 14 to 25 October, but owing to its high attendance figures and success, the season was extended for an extra five days. The 2022 festival runs from 19 to 31 October.

History edit

Overview edit

An independently financed Adelaide International Film Festival (AIFF) had been held from 1959 to 1980.[1] The idea of a new film festival to stimulate the local film industry and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the South Australian Film Corporation was raised by Premier Mike Rann in 2002, and a director and board were appointed.[2] The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund was created to fund the Film Festival and other events.[1]

The inaugural Adelaide (International) Film Festival was held from 28 February to 3 March 2003. It ran a programme of screenings, special events and forums in a number of cinemas across Adelaide.[1] It was the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition, and also the first to create an investment fund specifically for film production.[3]

After its first edition, the festival ceased to use "International" in its title,[4] denoting a withdrawal from FIAPF membership. It was known as the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, or BAFF, for a period until 2011, as its main sponsor had been BigPond.[5]

As of July 2022 the festival had been held 11 times since, usually biennially but as an annual event from 2015 to 2018 (with occasional mini-events in intervening years[6][7]). In 2022 it was announced that the full festival would be presented each year, instead of biennially, after the Malinauskas government pledged A$500,000 annually for the following four years.[8][9]

Festival directors edit

Katrina Sedgwick was the Festival's founding director in 2002.[10][2] She had previously co-founded the 1995 Sydney Fringe Festival, was the Special Events Producer (1998, 2000) for the Adelaide Festival of Arts, and the artistic director for the 2002 Adelaide Fringe.[11] In 2007, Sedgwick introduced an international jury prize to the festival.[2] At the time of her stepping down from the role of Festival director in 2013, Sedgwick said that the festival was the first in Australia to introduce an international competition, and a production fund, and that ticket sales had grown by 20 per cent each year.[12]

2013 was Amanda Duthie's first year as Festival Director, after spending eight years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight years at the Special Broadcasting Service during the 1990s.[13]

After running the Festival's programming from 2015 to 2018, Mat Kesting was appointed as the new CEO in 2019. Named as one of Screen International’s Future Leaders in 2019, Mat’s passion for cinema and strong curatorial voice is well known in the Australian film industry. Prior to this he was Exhibition Manager at the Mercury Cinema, programming special events including Cinémathèque, Silent ReMasters, and Seniors on Screen. He programmed six editions of the On Screen strand of OzAsia Festival, and was previously Program Manager at the Brisbane International Film Festival.

AFF events edit

Since the first event in 2003, the Festival has been held (originally in odd-numbered years) in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 (a one-off "Rogue" event), 2017, 2018, and a "pop-up" weekend festival in March 2019.[14]

Audiences have grown year on year, with an audience of more than 64,000 people in 2018, and estimated to have had an impact of A$26.5 million on the state's economy.[15] The 2022 festival's audience and box office broke all previous records.[16]

Locations

From 2017 to 2020, festival events took place mainly at the GU Filmhouse in Hindley Street (defunct as of 1 October 2020), with some sessions at the smaller Mercury Cinema in Morphett Street.[15]

In 2020, most screenings were hosted by Palace Nova at their Eastend and Prospect locations, with some showings at Mitcham Wallis Cinemas at Mitcham Square Shopping Centre, Odeon Star in Semaphore, Tandanya,[17] the Warriparinga Wetlands,[18] and at Alberton Oval.[19] In 2022, For the first time, screenings also took place at the Capri Theatre in Goodwood, Her Majesty's Theatre, and Event Cinemas Marion, in addition to the two Palace Nova locations, Wallis Mitcham, and Odeon Semaphore.[16]

2023: 18–29 October

The 2023 festival ran from 18 to 29 October, at five cinemas across Adelaide with Palace Nova Eastend the main venue. Gala events screened The Royal Hotel, directed and co-written by Kitty Green and filmed in South Australia, a true crime documentary Speedway, directed by Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien, and the closing Gala featured director Scott Hicks' symphonic concert documentary My Name's Ben Folds - I Play Piano.[20]

2022: 19−30 October edit

The 2022 edition of the festival is held from 19 to 30 October. Films selected for screening include Todd Field's TÁR (starring Cate Blanchett, who appeared in a Q&A session after its first showing[21]); My Policeman, with Harry Styles; South Australian horror thriller Carnifex, with Alexandra Park; Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness; Stolen Generations story The Last Daughter; and Aftersun, a debut from Scottish director Charlotte Wells.[22] RackaRacka's debut, Talk to Me closed the festival.[23] The Survival of Kindness by Rolf De Heer had red-carpet parties in the city. The new South Australian film Monolith had its world premiere at the festival[24] on 27 October 2022.[25] It was announced after the opening weekend that several films would get a second outing in the week following the festival, including TÁR, Monolith, Talk to Me, The Last Daughter, and Triangle of Sadness.[26][23]

2020: 14−30 October edit

In 2020 the Adelaide Film Festival was scheduled to run from 14 to 25 October, one of the few events of its type during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic,[27] but due to the success of the festival, an extended run of selected films was scheduled as part of the Best of the Fest programme, re-showing ten of the programmed films from 26 to 30 October.[28]

To open the festival, the locally filmed sci-fi thriller 2067 played in seven cinemas simultaneously, with extra screenings added due to demand.[29] One of the headlining films was I Am Woman, starring Adelaide actor Tilda Cobham-Hervey, who returned from Los Angeles in September. Other films included the documentary The Painter and the Thief, and High Ground, and the films include 22 world premieres, 27 Australian premieres and a total of 54 feature films from many countries.[27]

The competition jury comprises playwright and screenwriter Andrew Bovell, actor Natasha Wanganeen, filmmaker Khoa Do, producer Rebecca Summerton of Closer Productions and film critic Zak Hepburn.[30]

The earliest screening at the festival took place on 22 August, with several early showings of I Am Woman;[31] the final event, a documentary about Port Adelaide Football Club called This is Port Adelaide, premiered at Odeon Star Semaphore from 5–7 February 2021.[32]

2019: 5–7 April "pop-up" edit

In April 2019, a weekend "pop-up" event was held, to showcase Wayne Blair's romcom, Top End Wedding, and Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde's Australian/Irish co-production Animals.[33]

2018: 10–21 October edit

In April 2017, the Premier Jay Weatherill announced that a full festival, including new funding of A$1m for the ADL Film Fest Fund, would run again in October 2018.[34]

Hotel Mumbai, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, rock documentary Bad Reputation (about Joan Jett) and The Nightingale (directed by Babadook director Jennifer Kent) were some of the films shown.[35]

2017: 5–15 October edit

At the 2017 festival, the theme "Vive le Punk" celebrated the punk movement's 40th anniversary. It featured A Fantastic Woman, Call Me By Your Name, a set by Adelaide punk band Exploding White Mice and Ai Weiwei's documentary about migration, Human Flow.[6]

2016: 27–30 October edit

Having previously been held biennially, the highlight of "AFF Goes Rogue" in October 2016 was a 4-day "mini-festival" in the in-between year. The first of the works commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival Fund in that month was the Australian premiere season of Lynette Wallworth's Collisions[7] (5–30 October). Then there was a free talk by Greg Mackie at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on 23 October, and the events culminated in a 4-day mini-festival (27–30 October) featuring world premiere screenings of two films – Australia's first Muslim rom-com Ali's Wedding, based on the life of actor, writer and comedian Osamah Sami, and a special "work in progress" screening of David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema, directed by Sally Aitken[36] (later released as David Stratton: A Cinematic Life[37]). Other films shown were Gimme Danger, a documentary film about the Stooges, and a retrospective screening of Lucky Miles (2007).[38]

2015: 15–25 October edit

Main article: 2015 Adelaide Film Festival

The 7th Adelaide Film Festival was held from 15 to 25 October 2015. Amanda Duthie was again the Festival Director. On the opening night of the festival, director and screenwriter Andrew Bovell received the 2015 Don Dunstan Award for his contribution to the Australian film industry.

The festival opened with Scott Hicks's documentary film Highly Strung, and closed with Paolo Sorrentino's drama film Youth.

More than 180 feature films were screened at the festival, 40 of which were Australian films, 24 South Australian films and total of 51 countries were represented at the Festival.

As part of the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival, a public art installation was presented, incorporating a Laneway Cinema in Cinema Place, showing moving image artworks, and a 'Reactive Wall', where six artists created 2D visual artworks live in response to content within the festival.

2013: 10–20 October edit

Main article: 2013 Adelaide Film Festival

The 6th Adelaide Film Festival took place from 10 to 20 October 2013. This was Amanda Duthie's first year as Festival Director (after eight years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight years at the Special Broadcasting Service during the 1990s), having taken over from Katrina Sedgwick. Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton served as the festival's patrons.

Scott Hicks received the 2013 Don Dunstan Award for his contribution to the Australian film industry.

The poster in 2013 depicted Screen Worship, which celebrates work for all screens—cinema, television, phone and computer.

Patrons and board edit

Well-known film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton are patrons of the AFF.[39]

The board of the Adelaide Film Festival as of December 2021 consisted of:[39]

  • Chair Anton Andreacchio, producer and entrepreneur, board member of the South Australian Film Corporation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Board[39]
  • Hugo Weaving, actor[40]
  • Martha Coleman,[41] a producer of film and television, a former head of development at Screen Australia, and as of 2020 heading production company Revlover[39]
  • Joshua Fanning, an experienced company director and entrepreneur. Founder of CityMag, currently[when?] the Group Creative Director for KWP!
  • Marianna Panopoulos, a certified practising accountant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Beck Cole, a prominent Aboriginal screenwriter and director of drama and documentaries

Former Board members include Cheryl Bart, Sandra Sdraulig,[10][42] Andrew Bovell,[43] Judith Crombie,[10] Mojgan Khadem,[10] Gabrielle Kelly,[10] Wayne Lewis,[43] Barry Loane,[10] Sue Maslin,[43] Jacinta Thompson,[43] Leanne Thomas[43] Sam White, Greg Knagge and Jamie Restas.[44][43]

Recognition edit

In 2007, the AFF featured in Variety Magazine's Top 50 unmissable film festivals,[45] around the world.[46] saying: "Of the planet’s 1,000-plus film fests, only a select few pack industry impact. A few dozen more, by virtue of vision, originality, striking setting, audience zest and/or their ability to mine a unique niche, also rank as must-attends".

The Adelaide Film Festival's 2020 event was awarded "Best Festival" at the 2021 South Australian Ruby Awards, an annual ceremony which recognises outstanding achievement in South Australia’s arts and culture sector.

Awards edit

Don Dunstan Award edit

The Don Dunstan Award was established in honour of Don Dunstan, Premier of South Australia through most of the 1970s, and is presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry by an individual.[47]

Past recipients have included:[48]

Feature Fiction Award edit

ADL Film Fest was the first Australian film festival to create a juried prize for best feature film.[62]

Winners have included:

Feature Documentary Award edit

The Feature Documentary Award, also known as the Flinders University International Documentary Award, was first awarded in 2013, with the inaugural prize going to Blush of Fruit (Australia, Vietnam), directed by Jakeb Anhvu.[67][68] Since then it has been won by:

Bettison & James Award edit

The Bettison & James Award, formerly Jim Bettison and Helen James Award, presented in collaboration with the Jim Bettison and Helen James Foundation, was established to recognise Australians who "have contributed exemplary and inspiring lifelong body of work of high achievement and benefit; and that the completion, extension, recording and/or dissemination of such work would have benefits for both the individual concerned and for the wider Australian community". The annual award of A$50,000 is made to an individual who has contributed significantly in whatever their area of expertise is,[69] be it arts, humanities, social justice, science, the environment or something else.[70] The foundation was established by the estates of the Jim Bettison and his partner Helen James. Bettison created the Developed Image Photographic Gallery, co-founded communications company Codan and served as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, his alma mater (an honorary position[71]). Helen was an exhibiting studio artist, who served on a number of arts committees and was one of the founding members of the National Library of Australia’s Foundation Board.[72]

Tim Jarvis, adventurer and environmental scientist[69]

Change Award edit

The Change Award was established in 2020. Worth A$5,000 and sponsored by Zambrero, it is awarded "for positive social or environmental impact and cinema expressing new directions for humanity", selected by audience vote.[16]

Flinders University Short Film Prize edit

Established in 2022, this award is determined by audience vote.[16]

INSITE Award edit

The Adelaide Film Festival teamed up with the Australian Writers' Guild to present the INSITE Award at the 2013 Festival. The Award celebrates and acknowledges outstanding work produced by AWG screenwriters and provides an important development opportunity for both writers and the industry. The winner gets to meet industry directors and producers, with a view to moving the project onto the screen.[79]

It has not been awarded since 2017 and is not mentioned on the 2020 list of awards. Past winners have included:

  • 2003 Cut Snake, by Blake Ayshford,[80] was filmed by director Tony Ayres.[79]
  • 2005 Moving South, by Cath Moore.[80]
  • 2007 Salt, by Priscilla Cameron and Heather Phillips,[81] was directed by Michael Angus in 2009. The film played at the Adelaide Film Festival that same year.
  • 2009 Writing Rain, written by Ben Chessell.[82]
  • 2011 The Unlikeliest Hero, by Barbara Connell,[83] was planned to be filmed by New Zealand director James Cunningham in an official Australia/New Zealand co-production, with completion of the film timed to coincide with the 100-year commemorations of Anzac Day.[84][85][86] (However, as of September 2020 it was last reported as being pitched as an animated film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2015.[87])
  • 2013 Tigress, written by Jane Hampson.[88]
  • 2015 Martingale, written by Harry Aletras.[89]
  • 2017 Petrova, written by Bec Peniston-Bird.[90]

AFTRS International VR Award edit

In 2017, ADL Film Fest introduced the AFTRS ADL Film Fest International VR Award, the first competition of its kind in Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Nothing Happens, by Michelle and Uri Kranot, won the inaugural award, while The Other Dakar by Selly Raby, based on Senegalese mythology, received a Special Mention.[91]

In 2018, The Unknown Patient, by Australian director Michael Beets won the award.[92][64]

Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative edit

In partnership with Screen Australia, KOJO and the National Film and Sound Archive, this initiative, the first of its kind, was created in 2015 to support an "innovative, observational and/or social justice documentary" with a funding package of up to A$738,000. The award provided funding for an established Indigenous film-maker to make a feature-length documentary, providing funding for the director and a producer.[93]

Eualeyai/Kamillaroi writer and academic Larissa Behrendt, along with Michaela Perske, writer and producer,[94] were awarded the funding in 2016 to work on their feature documentary project, After the Apology.[95][96]

On 9 October 2017, AFF held the world première of the resulting film,[97] and it was sold out at the Winda Film Festival in Sydney in November of that year. The film focuses on a group of grandmothers (Grandmothers Against Removals) taking on the system over the increase in Indigenous child removal in the years following Kevin Rudd's Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, in which he offered an apology on behalf of the Australian Government to the Stolen Generations resulting from historic child removal policies in Australia.[98] It won Best Direction of a Documentary Feature Film from the Australian Directors Guild in 2018, and was nominated in three categories in the 2018 AACTA Awards: Best Direction in Nonfiction Television (Larissa Behrendt); Best Documentary or Factual Program (Michaela Perske); and Best Original Music Score in A Documentary (Caitlin Yeo).[99][100]

Juries edit

Jury members for the International Feature Film Prize have included Afghani actor Leena Alam and Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues (2017); Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir and Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde (2015); actor/filmmaker Wayne Blair and writer Lawrence Weschler ( 2013); Hossein Valamanesh (2011); JM Coetzee (2007 & 2009), Naomi Kawase and David Stratton (2009); Margaret Pomeranz and Ana Kokkinos (2007).[citation needed]

Jury members for the Flinders University Documentary Prize have included Eva Orner (2017); Beck Cole (2015) and Michael Loebenstein (2015).[101]

Amanda Duthie, AFF artistic director and virtual reality champion, sat on the jury for the inaugural AFTRS International VR Award in 2017.[91]

AFF Youth edit

Adelaide Film Festival Youth (or AFF Youth) is a section of the AFF dedicated to young filmmakers. It hosts the Statewide Schools Filmmakers Competition, which is a competition open to South Australian students to submit their short films into.[104]

Awards edit

Best Primary School Film edit

  • 2023 - Selma directed by Harrison J Thomas / Prince Alfred College and The Tree Of Wellness / Prospect North Primary School[105]

Best Middle School Film edit

  • 2023 - Unmasked directed by Aurora Chan[105]

Best High School Film edit

  • 2023 - GEIGER directed by Eddie Gerard, Hamish Headland, Sam Gniel / Prince Alfred College[105]

People's Choice Award edit

  • 2023 - Golden Boy – The Untold Story of the Oscars directed by Matthew Page & Joshua Hynes / Charles Campbell College[105]

Film Lab: New Voices edit

In 2021 the Film Lab: New Voices initiative was launched by the South Australian Film Corporation and the AFF, in collaboration with Mercury CX. This program supports emerging filmmakers, with three teams selected for mentoring over an 11-month development period and one team then selected for funding to complete a low-budget feature film which is premiered at the next AFF.[106][107][108]

The low budget sci-fi thriller Monolith was announced as being the first project funded by the initiative.[109] The winning team, comprising director Matt Vesely, producer Bettina Hamilton and writer Lucy Campbell, were given six months to develop, shoot and edit their film, which premiered at the 2022 Festival to much acclaim. Monolith, which features Australian actress Lily Sullivan, has since gone to screen at pop culture festival SXSW and will receive a general cinema release in mid-2023.[110]

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External links edit

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  • AFF at Screen Australia

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adelaide, film, festival, 94481, 59932, 94481, 59932, locationadelaide, australiafounded2003awards, received2021, ruby, awards, best, festival, awardsfeature, fiction, award, feature, documentary, awarddon, dunstan, awardthe, bettison, helen, james, awardindig. 34 56 41 S 138 35 58 E 34 94481 S 138 59932 E 34 94481 138 59932 Adelaide Film FestivalLocationAdelaide AustraliaFounded2003Awards received2021 Ruby Awards Best Festival AwardsFeature Fiction Award Feature Documentary AwardDon Dunstan AwardThe Jim Bettison and Helen James AwardIndigenous Feature Documentary InitiativeINSITE AwardAFTRS International VR AwardDirectorsMat Kesting 2019 Amanda Duthie 2012 2018 Katrina Sedgwick 2002 2011 Hosted byPatrons Margaret Pomeranz and David StrattonFestival date18 29 October 2023Websiteadelaidefilmfestival wbr orgThe Adelaide Film Festival AFF formerly ADLFF is a film festival usually held for two weeks in mid October in cinemas in Adelaide South Australia Originally presented biennially in March from 2003 since 2013 AFF has been held in October Subject to funding the festival has staged full or briefer events in alternating years some form of event has taken place every year since 2015 From 2022 it takes place annually It has a strong focus on local South Australian and Australian produced content with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund AFFIF established to fund investment in Australian films Established in 2003 as Adelaide International Film Festival it dropped International from its title after the inaugural edition as it dropped its FIAPF membership the following year It was however the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition as well as being the first to fund film production directly The festival hosts a number of awards including the Don Dunstan Awards for lifetime contrtibution Best Feature Fiction Best Feature Documentary Bettison amp James Award and others In 2017 the International Virtual Reality Award was launched by AFF in partnership with the Australian Film Television and Radio School AFTRS known as the AFTRS ADL Film Fest International VR Award The 2020 Festival was scheduled to take place from 14 to 25 October but owing to its high attendance figures and success the season was extended for an extra five days The 2022 festival runs from 19 to 31 October Contents 1 History 1 1 Overview 1 2 Festival directors 1 3 AFF events 1 3 1 2022 19 30 October 1 3 2 2020 14 30 October 1 3 3 2019 5 7 April pop up 1 3 4 2018 10 21 October 1 3 5 2017 5 15 October 1 3 6 2016 27 30 October 1 3 7 2015 15 25 October 1 3 8 2013 10 20 October 2 Patrons and board 3 Recognition 4 Awards 4 1 Don Dunstan Award 4 2 Feature Fiction Award 4 3 Feature Documentary Award 4 4 Bettison amp James Award 4 5 Change Award 4 6 Flinders University Short Film Prize 4 7 INSITE Award 4 8 AFTRS International VR Award 4 9 Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative 5 Juries 6 AFF Youth 6 1 Awards 6 1 1 Best Primary School Film 6 1 2 Best Middle School Film 6 1 3 Best High School Film 6 1 4 People s Choice Award 7 Film Lab New Voices 8 References 9 External linksHistory editOverview edit An independently financed Adelaide International Film Festival AIFF had been held from 1959 to 1980 1 The idea of a new film festival to stimulate the local film industry and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the South Australian Film Corporation was raised by Premier Mike Rann in 2002 and a director and board were appointed 2 The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund was created to fund the Film Festival and other events 1 The inaugural Adelaide International Film Festival was held from 28 February to 3 March 2003 It ran a programme of screenings special events and forums in a number of cinemas across Adelaide 1 It was the first film festival in Australia to introduce an international competition and also the first to create an investment fund specifically for film production 3 After its first edition the festival ceased to use International in its title 4 denoting a withdrawal from FIAPF membership It was known as the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival or BAFF for a period until 2011 as its main sponsor had been BigPond 5 As of July 2022 update the festival had been held 11 times since usually biennially but as an annual event from 2015 to 2018 with occasional mini events in intervening years 6 7 In 2022 it was announced that the full festival would be presented each year instead of biennially after the Malinauskas government pledged A 500 000 annually for the following four years 8 9 Festival directors edit Katrina Sedgwick was the Festival s founding director in 2002 10 2 She had previously co founded the 1995 Sydney Fringe Festival was the Special Events Producer 1998 2000 for the Adelaide Festival of Arts and the artistic director for the 2002 Adelaide Fringe 11 In 2007 Sedgwick introduced an international jury prize to the festival 2 At the time of her stepping down from the role of Festival director in 2013 Sedgwick said that the festival was the first in Australia to introduce an international competition and a production fund and that ticket sales had grown by 20 per cent each year 12 2013 was Amanda Duthie s first year as Festival Director after spending eight years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight years at the Special Broadcasting Service during the 1990s 13 After running the Festival s programming from 2015 to 2018 Mat Kesting was appointed as the new CEO in 2019 Named as one of Screen International s Future Leaders in 2019 Mat s passion for cinema and strong curatorial voice is well known in the Australian film industry Prior to this he was Exhibition Manager at the Mercury Cinema programming special events including Cinematheque Silent ReMasters and Seniors on Screen He programmed six editions of the On Screen strand of OzAsia Festival and was previously Program Manager at the Brisbane International Film Festival AFF events edit Since the first event in 2003 the Festival has been held originally in odd numbered years in 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2016 a one off Rogue event 2017 2018 and a pop up weekend festival in March 2019 14 Audiences have grown year on year with an audience of more than 64 000 people in 2018 and estimated to have had an impact of A 26 5 million on the state s economy 15 The 2022 festival s audience and box office broke all previous records 16 LocationsFrom 2017 to 2020 festival events took place mainly at the GU Filmhouse in Hindley Street defunct as of 1 October 2020 with some sessions at the smaller Mercury Cinema in Morphett Street 15 In 2020 most screenings were hosted by Palace Nova at their Eastend and Prospect locations with some showings at Mitcham Wallis Cinemas at Mitcham Square Shopping Centre Odeon Star in Semaphore Tandanya 17 the Warriparinga Wetlands 18 and at Alberton Oval 19 In 2022 For the first time screenings also took place at the Capri Theatre in Goodwood Her Majesty s Theatre and Event Cinemas Marion in addition to the two Palace Nova locations Wallis Mitcham and Odeon Semaphore 16 2023 18 29 OctoberThe 2023 festival ran from 18 to 29 October at five cinemas across Adelaide with Palace Nova Eastend the main venue Gala events screened The Royal Hotel directed and co written by Kitty Green and filmed in South Australia a true crime documentary Speedway directed by Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien and the closing Gala featured director Scott Hicks symphonic concert documentary My Name s Ben Folds I Play Piano 20 2022 19 30 October edit The 2022 edition of the festival is held from 19 to 30 October Films selected for screening include Todd Field s TAR starring Cate Blanchett who appeared in a Q amp A session after its first showing 21 My Policeman with Harry Styles South Australian horror thriller Carnifex with Alexandra Park Ruben Ostlund s Triangle of Sadness Stolen Generations story The Last Daughter and Aftersun a debut from Scottish director Charlotte Wells 22 RackaRacka s debut Talk to Me closed the festival 23 The Survival of Kindness by Rolf De Heer had red carpet parties in the city The new South Australian film Monolith had its world premiere at the festival 24 on 27 October 2022 25 It was announced after the opening weekend that several films would get a second outing in the week following the festival including TAR Monolith Talk to Me The Last Daughter and Triangle of Sadness 26 23 2020 14 30 October edit In 2020 the Adelaide Film Festival was scheduled to run from 14 to 25 October one of the few events of its type during the worldwide COVID 19 pandemic 27 but due to the success of the festival an extended run of selected films was scheduled as part of the Best of the Fest programme re showing ten of the programmed films from 26 to 30 October 28 To open the festival the locally filmed sci fi thriller 2067 played in seven cinemas simultaneously with extra screenings added due to demand 29 One of the headlining films was I Am Woman starring Adelaide actor Tilda Cobham Hervey who returned from Los Angeles in September Other films included the documentary The Painter and the Thief and High Ground and the films include 22 world premieres 27 Australian premieres and a total of 54 feature films from many countries 27 The competition jury comprises playwright and screenwriter Andrew Bovell actor Natasha Wanganeen filmmaker Khoa Do producer Rebecca Summerton of Closer Productions and film critic Zak Hepburn 30 The earliest screening at the festival took place on 22 August with several early showings of I Am Woman 31 the final event a documentary about Port Adelaide Football Club called This is Port Adelaide premiered at Odeon Star Semaphore from 5 7 February 2021 32 2019 5 7 April pop up edit In April 2019 a weekend pop up event was held to showcase Wayne Blair s romcom Top End Wedding and Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde s Australian Irish co production Animals 33 2018 10 21 October edit In April 2017 the Premier Jay Weatherill announced that a full festival including new funding of A 1m for the ADL Film Fest Fund would run again in October 2018 34 Hotel Mumbai Can You Ever Forgive Me rock documentary Bad Reputation about Joan Jett and The Nightingale directed by Babadook director Jennifer Kent were some of the films shown 35 2017 5 15 October edit At the 2017 festival the theme Vive le Punk celebrated the punk movement s 40th anniversary It featured A Fantastic Woman Call Me By Your Name a set by Adelaide punk band Exploding White Mice and Ai Weiwei s documentary about migration Human Flow 6 2016 27 30 October edit Having previously been held biennially the highlight of AFF Goes Rogue in October 2016 was a 4 day mini festival in the in between year The first of the works commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival Fund in that month was the Australian premiere season of Lynette Wallworth s Collisions 7 5 30 October Then there was a free talk by Greg Mackie at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on 23 October and the events culminated in a 4 day mini festival 27 30 October featuring world premiere screenings of two films Australia s first Muslim rom com Ali s Wedding based on the life of actor writer and comedian Osamah Sami and a special work in progress screening of David Stratton s Stories of Australian Cinema directed by Sally Aitken 36 later released as David Stratton A Cinematic Life 37 Other films shown were Gimme Danger a documentary film about the Stooges and a retrospective screening of Lucky Miles 2007 38 2015 15 25 October edit Main article 2015 Adelaide Film Festival The 7th Adelaide Film Festival was held from 15 to 25 October 2015 Amanda Duthie was again the Festival Director On the opening night of the festival director and screenwriter Andrew Bovell received the 2015 Don Dunstan Award for his contribution to the Australian film industry The festival opened with Scott Hicks s documentary film Highly Strung and closed with Paolo Sorrentino s drama film Youth More than 180 feature films were screened at the festival 40 of which were Australian films 24 South Australian films and total of 51 countries were represented at the Festival As part of the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival a public art installation was presented incorporating a Laneway Cinema in Cinema Place showing moving image artworks and a Reactive Wall where six artists created 2D visual artworks live in response to content within the festival 2013 10 20 October edit Main article 2013 Adelaide Film Festival The 6th Adelaide Film Festival took place from 10 to 20 October 2013 This was Amanda Duthie s first year as Festival Director after eight years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and eight years at the Special Broadcasting Service during the 1990s having taken over from Katrina Sedgwick Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton served as the festival s patrons Scott Hicks received the 2013 Don Dunstan Award for his contribution to the Australian film industry The poster in 2013 depicted Screen Worship which celebrates work for all screens cinema television phone and computer Patrons and board editWell known film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton are patrons of the AFF 39 The board of the Adelaide Film Festival as of December 2021 update consisted of 39 Chair Anton Andreacchio producer and entrepreneur board member of the South Australian Film Corporation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Board 39 Hugo Weaving actor 40 Martha Coleman 41 a producer of film and television a former head of development at Screen Australia and as of 2020 heading production company Revlover 39 Joshua Fanning an experienced company director and entrepreneur Founder of CityMag currently when the Group Creative Director for KWP Marianna Panopoulos a certified practising accountant and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Beck Cole a prominent Aboriginal screenwriter and director of drama and documentariesFormer Board members include Cheryl Bart Sandra Sdraulig 10 42 Andrew Bovell 43 Judith Crombie 10 Mojgan Khadem 10 Gabrielle Kelly 10 Wayne Lewis 43 Barry Loane 10 Sue Maslin 43 Jacinta Thompson 43 Leanne Thomas 43 Sam White Greg Knagge and Jamie Restas 44 43 Recognition editIn 2007 the AFF featured in Variety Magazine s Top 50 unmissable film festivals 45 around the world 46 saying Of the planet s 1 000 plus film fests only a select few pack industry impact A few dozen more by virtue of vision originality striking setting audience zest and or their ability to mine a unique niche also rank as must attends The Adelaide Film Festival s 2020 event was awarded Best Festival at the 2021 South Australian Ruby Awards an annual ceremony which recognises outstanding achievement in South Australia s arts and culture sector Awards editDon Dunstan Award edit The Don Dunstan Award was established in honour of Don Dunstan Premier of South Australia through most of the 1970s and is presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the Australian film industry by an individual 47 Past recipients have included 48 2003 David Gulpilil actor 1 49 2005 Dennis O Rourke cinematographer and documentary filmmaker 49 50 2007 Rolf de Heer director 49 51 2009 Jan Chapman producer 49 52 2011 Judy Davis actor 49 53 2013 Scott Hicks director 54 55 2015 Andrew Bovell screenwriter and playwright citation needed 2017 Margaret Pomeranz amp David Stratton film critics 2018 Freda Glynn pioneering Indigenous filmmaker and her family members involved in the film industry offspring Erica Glynn and Warwick Thornton and grandchildren Tanith Glynn Maloney and Dylan River 56 57 2020 Bruna Papandrea producer 47 58 2022 David Jowsey producer of Bunya Productions 59 60 61 Feature Fiction Award edit ADL Film Fest was the first Australian film festival to create a juried prize for best feature film 62 Winners have included 2006 Still Life Jia Zhangke China 62 2009 Treeless Mountain So Yong Kim USA South Korea 62 2011 Incendies Denis Villeneuve Canada France 62 2013 Jin Reha Erdem Turkey 62 2015 Neon Bull Gabriel Mascaro Brazil 63 62 2017 I Am Not a Witch Rungano Nyoni France United Kingdom 62 2019 The Seen and Unseen Kamila Andini Indonesia Netherlands Australia 64 62 2020 Beginning Dea Kulumbegashvili Georgia 65 2022 Autobiography Makbul Mubarak id Indonesia 23 2023 Empty Nets Behrooz Karamizade Iran 66 Feature Documentary Award edit The Feature Documentary Award also known as the Flinders University International Documentary Award was first awarded in 2013 with the inaugural prize going to Blush of Fruit Australia Vietnam directed by Jakeb Anhvu 67 68 Since then it has been won by 2015 Speed Sisters Amber Fares 67 68 2017 Taste of Cement Ziad Kalthoum 67 68 2018 Island of the Hungry Ghosts Gabrielle Brady 64 68 2020 Firestarter The Story of Bangarra Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair about the Bangarra Dance Theatre 65 2022 The Hamlet Syndrome set shortly before Russia s invasion of Ukraine 23 2023 Hollywoodgate Ibrahim Nash at Egypt 66 Bettison amp James Award edit The Bettison amp James Award formerly Jim Bettison and Helen James Award presented in collaboration with the Jim Bettison and Helen James Foundation was established to recognise Australians who have contributed exemplary and inspiring lifelong body of work of high achievement and benefit and that the completion extension recording and or dissemination of such work would have benefits for both the individual concerned and for the wider Australian community The annual award of A 50 000 is made to an individual who has contributed significantly in whatever their area of expertise is 69 be it arts humanities social justice science the environment or something else 70 The foundation was established by the estates of the Jim Bettison and his partner Helen James Bettison created the Developed Image Photographic Gallery co founded communications company Codan and served as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Adelaide his alma mater an honorary position 71 Helen was an exhibiting studio artist who served on a number of arts committees and was one of the founding members of the National Library of Australia s Foundation Board 72 2015 Greg Mackie OAM founder of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas 69 2016 Meryl Tankard AO dancer choreographer and director andTim Jarvis adventurer and environmental scientist 69 dd 2017 Robert McFarlane social documentary and arts photographer 69 2018 Jackie Huggins AM FAHA author historian and Indigenous rights advocate for researching the social impacts of Aboriginal soldiers going to fight in both World Wars 73 69 2019 John Long paleontologist academic and author of popular science non fiction and fiction 69 2020 David Vaux scientist and expert on cell death 74 2019 co recipient of the Florey Medal for Lifetime Achievement 75 2021 Bob Brown environmentalist human rights campaigner and former political leader of the Australian Greens party 76 2022 Pat Rix artistic director 77 Change Award edit The Change Award was established in 2020 Worth A 5 000 and sponsored by Zambrero it is awarded for positive social or environmental impact and cinema expressing new directions for humanity selected by audience vote 16 2020 Firestarter The Story of Bangarra Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair about the Bangarra Dance Theatre 78 2022 Luku Ngarra directed by Sinem Saban and produced by Djiniyini Gondarra OAM and Saban about the history and culture of Arnhem Land 16 Flinders University Short Film Prize edit Established in 2022 this award is determined by audience vote 16 2022 Are You Really the Universe directed by Tamara Hardman and starring Tilda Cobham Hervey 16 INSITE Award edit The Adelaide Film Festival teamed up with the Australian Writers Guild to present the INSITE Award at the 2013 Festival The Award celebrates and acknowledges outstanding work produced by AWG screenwriters and provides an important development opportunity for both writers and the industry The winner gets to meet industry directors and producers with a view to moving the project onto the screen 79 It has not been awarded since 2017 and is not mentioned on the 2020 list of awards Past winners have included 2003 Cut Snake by Blake Ayshford 80 was filmed by director Tony Ayres 79 2005 Moving South by Cath Moore 80 2007 Salt by Priscilla Cameron and Heather Phillips 81 was directed by Michael Angus in 2009 The film played at the Adelaide Film Festival that same year 2009 Writing Rain written by Ben Chessell 82 2011 The Unlikeliest Hero by Barbara Connell 83 was planned to be filmed by New Zealand director James Cunningham in an official Australia New Zealand co production with completion of the film timed to coincide with the 100 year commemorations of Anzac Day 84 85 86 However as of September 2020 update it was last reported as being pitched as an animated film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2015 87 2013 Tigress written by Jane Hampson 88 2015 Martingale written by Harry Aletras 89 2017 Petrova written by Bec Peniston Bird 90 AFTRS International VR Award edit In 2017 ADL Film Fest introduced the AFTRS ADL Film Fest International VR Award the first competition of its kind in Australia in collaboration with the Australian Film Television and Radio School AFTRS Nothing Happens by Michelle and Uri Kranot won the inaugural award while The Other Dakar by Selly Raby based on Senegalese mythology received a Special Mention 91 In 2018 The Unknown Patient by Australian director Michael Beets won the award 92 64 Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative edit In partnership with Screen Australia KOJO and the National Film and Sound Archive this initiative the first of its kind was created in 2015 to support an innovative observational and or social justice documentary with a funding package of up to A 738 000 The award provided funding for an established Indigenous film maker to make a feature length documentary providing funding for the director and a producer 93 Eualeyai Kamillaroi writer and academic Larissa Behrendt along with Michaela Perske writer and producer 94 were awarded the funding in 2016 to work on their feature documentary project After the Apology 95 96 On 9 October 2017 AFF held the world premiere of the resulting film 97 and it was sold out at the Winda Film Festival in Sydney in November of that year The film focuses on a group of grandmothers Grandmothers Against Removals taking on the system over the increase in Indigenous child removal in the years following Kevin Rudd s Apology to Australia s Indigenous peoples in which he offered an apology on behalf of the Australian Government to the Stolen Generations resulting from historic child removal policies in Australia 98 It won Best Direction of a Documentary Feature Film from the Australian Directors Guild in 2018 and was nominated in three categories in the 2018 AACTA Awards Best Direction in Nonfiction Television Larissa Behrendt Best Documentary or Factual Program Michaela Perske and Best Original Music Score in A Documentary Caitlin Yeo 99 100 Juries editJury members for the International Feature Film Prize have included Afghani actor Leena Alam and Portuguese filmmaker Joao Pedro Rodrigues 2017 Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir and Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde 2015 actor filmmaker Wayne Blair and writer Lawrence Weschler 2013 Hossein Valamanesh 2011 JM Coetzee 2007 amp 2009 Naomi Kawase and David Stratton 2009 Margaret Pomeranz and Ana Kokkinos 2007 citation needed Jury members for the Flinders University Documentary Prize have included Eva Orner 2017 Beck Cole 2015 and Michael Loebenstein 2015 101 Amanda Duthie AFF artistic director and virtual reality champion sat on the jury for the inaugural AFTRS International VR Award in 2017 91 2020 Andrew Bovell Khoa Do Zak Hepburn Rebecca Summerton of Closer Productions and Natasha Wanganeen 102 2022 Ali Gumillya Baker Luke Buckmaster Jim Kolmar Lisa Scott and Tusi Tamasese 2023 Kitty Green Alexander Matius Sally Riley David Rooney and Goran Stolevski 103 AFF Youth editAdelaide Film Festival Youth or AFF Youth is a section of the AFF dedicated to young filmmakers It hosts the Statewide Schools Filmmakers Competition which is a competition open to South Australian students to submit their short films into 104 Awards edit Best Primary School Film edit 2023 Selma directed by Harrison J Thomas Prince Alfred College and The Tree Of Wellness Prospect North Primary School 105 Best Middle School Film edit 2023 Unmasked directed by Aurora Chan 105 Best High School Film edit 2023 GEIGER directed by Eddie Gerard Hamish Headland Sam Gniel Prince Alfred College 105 People s Choice Award edit 2023 Golden Boy The Untold Story of the Oscars directed by Matthew Page amp Joshua Hynes Charles Campbell College 105 Film Lab New Voices editIn 2021 the Film Lab New Voices initiative was launched by the South Australian Film Corporation and the AFF in collaboration with Mercury CX This program supports emerging filmmakers with three teams selected for mentoring over an 11 month development period and one team then selected for funding to complete a low budget feature film which is premiered at the next AFF 106 107 108 The low budget sci fi thriller Monolith was announced as being the first project funded by the initiative 109 The winning team comprising director Matt Vesely producer Bettina Hamilton and writer Lucy Campbell were given six months to develop shoot and edit their film which premiered at the 2022 Festival to much acclaim Monolith which features Australian actress Lily Sullivan has since gone to screen at pop culture festival SXSW and will receive a general cinema release in mid 2023 110 References edit a b c d Adelaide International Film Festival SA Memory State Library of South Australia 12 November 2007 Archived from the original on 1 April 2015 Retrieved 10 February 2015 a b c Swift Brendan 5 September 2011 Katrina Sedgwick to leave BigPond Adelaide Film Festival if com au Retrieved 23 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