Telstra Sponsors Sports Docos at Adelaide Film Festival
For the first time the Adelaide Film Festival 05 will screen a series of Australian premiere sports documentaries as part of its season. The screenings have been made possible through of the sponsorship of Telstra.
Telstra S.A. Regional Director, Mr Michael Luchich, said Telstra is a proud supporter of many organisations across Australia and South Australia, ranging from community-based sports for children, to initiatives in health and education, Award Programs, the Arts and sports.
"Telstra is committed to making a positive difference to the communities in which it operates, to be involved and support the things that matter, such as the Adelaide Film Festival. We proud to be working with the Adelaide Film Festival organisers and are delighted to help to bring premier sports documentaries to all the film lovers who will flock to this great festival in the coming weeks".
Festival Director Katrina Sedgwick said, "Telstra is involved in community life across all Australian society. We are grateful that Telstra's support of the Adelaide Film Festival allows us to show documentaries where the arts are used to examine some of the issues in the sports arena."
Hell on Wheels, one of the documentaries to be shown is filmed in the toughest bicycle race of all, the Tour de France. The documentary glows in the astonishing beauty of the French landscape as well as the colourful spectacle of the race, which celebrated its 100th birthday in 2003. Hell on Wheels provides a fascinating inner view of the Tour's organisation, history and fanatical crowds. This film will screen on at 6:30pm on February 19 at Greater Union in Hindley St.
Other Sports documentaries in the program include Escobar's Own Goal and Maradona: Kicking the Habit. Both of these will screen at the Greater Union on Hindley St at 2:30pm on 26 February.
Escobar's Own Goal is about Columbian footballer Andres Escobar who was killed ten days after his greatest sporting achievement. The documentary delves into Escobar's story and the impoverished lives of the lower classes of his beginnings and explores the extent to which Columbian football at all levels is caught up within the political and criminal activity of Columbia.
Maradona: Kicking the Habit where we join the "greatest footballer of all time" in Havana, Cuba, after he had suffered a heart attack. Candid interviews divulge his hatred for Argentina's political corruption and provide glimpses of his irrepressible but magnetic personality.