Calendar | Monday 28 February 2005
10:00 AM | Monday 28 February
Shynola Workshop
The wonder boys of British animation will present a three day workshop sharing their creative and practical approach to creating and then successfully pitching concepts for music video...More
12:30 PM | Monday 28 February
Intensified Continuity and the Contemporary American Film: A Lecture by David Bordwell
Join famed film scholar David Bordwell for a detailed analysis of what is unique about contemporary American Film...More
2:15 PM | Monday 28 February
Rhinoceros Eyes
Australian Premiere
Aaron Woodley
Canada 2004
When the movie-prop store that young and exquisitely androgenous Chep works in is to be sold, his world will change...More
2:30 PM | Monday 28 February
The White Diamond
Australian Premiere
Werner Herzog
Germany 2004
In 1992, legendary nature documentary filmmaker Dieter Plage was tragically killed when he fell from the prototype airship made by his friend, the British scientist Dr Graham Dorrington, while attempting to film wildlife in the canopy of the Amazon...More
2:45 PM | Monday 28 February
A Decent Factory
Australian Premiere
Thomas Balmès
UK 2004
"Is it possible to simultaneously make a profit and conduct business ethically? Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, hires an 'ethical and environmental specialist' as it tackles the problem of sustainable enterprise within its company...More
4:30 PM | Monday 28 February
Nobody Knows
(Dare Mo Shiranai)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan 2004
Hirokazu Kore-eda established himself as a major voice in Japanese cinema with films such as Maborosi and After Life...More
5:15 PM | Monday 28 February
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Andrew Douglas
USA 2003
Courtesy of the BBC, we hit the road with American singer/ songwriter Jim White at the wheel of a beat-up Chevy, and embark on a meandering odyssey into the deep south of the USA...More
5:30 PM | Monday 28 February
InSite: Screenplay Reading
Australia
Presented in association with the Australian Writers Guild and the AFF...More
7:00 PM | Monday 28 February
Tokyo Godfathers
Satoshi Kon
Japan 2003
Who would have thought the most exuberantly enjoyable film of the year would feature a trio of Japanese homeless? In a remake of a John Wayne movie? In which the John Wayne role is played by an aging transvestite? Thank heavens for anime...More
7:15 PM | Monday 28 February
Human Touch
Australian Premiere
Paul Cox
Australia 2004
Human Touch marks a culmination in Paul Cox's career in which he reworks the themes which have absorbed him: the obsessiveness of the artist, the sensual pleasures of art and sex, and the inextricable relation between them...More
7:30 PM | Monday 28 February
Oscars Night Party
Red carpet, fabulous gowns, paparazzi and popcorn, gossip – what else could it be but the Oscars! Celebrate Hollywood's night of nights in style in the beautiful surrounds of the Marble Hall at SKYCITY...More
8:30 PM | Monday 28 February
Mirrorball: South American Showcase 05
Once again we return to the lands of Havaianas, rum cocktails and perennial tans, to showcase all that is holy in promos and adverts...More
9:15 PM | Monday 28 February
Beautiful Boxer
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Thailand 2003
He fights like a man so he can become a woman...More
9:45 PM | Monday 28 February
Primer
Australian Premiere
Shane Carruth
USA 2004
Behind a garage door, four competitive young entrepreneurial tech-wiz guys in white shirts and ties spend their every spare minute working on the "box"...More
9:45 PM | Monday 28 February
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
Australian Premiere
Danny Schechter
USA 2004
There were two wars going on in Iraq: one fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force; the other fought alongside it by the media...More