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SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2003
PROGRAMME
CHANGES
The Iranian
shorts programme is still in transit. Rather than risk
it not arriving we are SWAPPING its screening (10.30am
9/8) with the screening of Marathon (4.30pm
10/8)
The correct
programme details are as follows:
Marathon
10.30am Saturday 9/8 (L) State Library
Iranian
shorts: A cinema of poetic resonance 4.30pm Sunday
10/8 (L) State Library
JURIES
ANNOUNCE WINNERS AT BIFF
The FIPRESCI,
NETPAC and Interfaith juries announced their award recipients
from this year's 12th Brisbane International Film Festival
(BIFF) at a special ceremony on Saturday August 9, 2003
at 11.00am at the Nepalese Temple, South Bank Parklands.
The winner
of the FIPRESCI Award for 2003 was Turning Gate
(South Korea) by director Hong Sang-soo for the subtlety
of its characterisations, for the freshness of its narrative
style and for the simplicity and elegance of its embrace
of ambiguity.
Oasis
(Korea) by director Lee Chang-dong was awarded at the
NETPAC Award for 2003 for its powerful portrait of social
outcasts in present-dat Korea, its outstanding performances
and its poetic touches of fantasy in a strongly realistic
setting. The jury aslo made special mention of Letters
in the Wind (Iran) by director Ali Reza Amini for
its rigorous depiction of the experiences of raw recruits
in the iranian army today.
And the INTERFAITH
jury selected I'm Taraneh, 15 (Iran) by director
Rassul Sadr-Ameli as the recipient for their award.
The INTERFAITH jury also gave a
special commendation to Hop (Belgium) by director
Dominique Standaert.
The
FIPRESCI Award for Asia-Pacific Film was judged by critics
Chris Fujiwara, Ruth Hessey and Kenichi Okubo.
The
NETPAC Award for Asian Cinema was judged by Max Tessier
(Chair), President of NETPAC France, Andrew Pike, co-founder
of Ronin Films, and Aijaz Gul of Pakistan’s National
Film Development Corporation.
The inaugural Interfaith Award
for Promoting Humanitarian Values was judged by Jan Epstein,
a film critic and journalist of the Jewish faith, Faramarz
K-Rahber, an award-winning documentary-maker of the Baha'i
faith, and Professor Peter Sheehan A.O., Vice-Chancellor
of the Australian Catholic University.
UNDEAD
TAKES FIPRESCI PRIZE IN MELBOURNE
At the Melbourne
International Film Festival (23/7 - 10/8) the FIPRESCI
prize went to Undead by Peter and Michael Spierig
for daring to be everything that Australian films are
not supposed to be: part of a popular, disreputable
genre. We commend it as entertainment that is also political,
while showing the pleasures of hands-on filmmaking.
The jury
was composed of Eduardo Antin (Quintin), Argentina,
Gautaman Bhaskaran, India, Mike Walsh, Australia.
TOP
TEN FEATURES
1. The
Spanish Apartment
2. The
Rage in Placid Lake
3. Undead
4. Hop
5. Pure
6. Oasis
7. Welcome
to Collinwood
8. Japanese
Story
9. I'm
Taraneh, 15
10. The Bookstore
TOP
FIVE DOCUMENTARIES
1. Molly
and Mobarak
2. Wildness
3. The
Other Final
4. Breath
Control: The History of the Human Beat Box
5. Traces
of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family
We
don't include retrospecitive titles in this count, but
it should be noted that I Was Born, But...
would be at no 15 overall. The other Ozu silent
A Story of Floating Weeds screens Saturday 1.50pm
with accompaniment by Lawrence English and Carl Rathus.
Keep
those votes coming in!
ANNE'S
TEN "BEST OF THE REST"
In no particular
order, Anne couldn't limit herself to ten films...
1. Bird Man
Tale
2. Broken
Wings
3. Oasis
4. Madame
Satã
5. Love Liza
6. Eliana,
Eliana
7. Four short
tales about love
8. Travelling
Light
9. Decasia
10. Demonlover
11. Marathon
GARY'S
TEN "BEST OF THE REST"
In no particular
order
1. Too Young
to Die
2. The Other
Final
3. Raising
Victor Vargas
4. Owning
Mahowny
5. Traces
of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family
6. Marry Me
7. American
Splendor
8. In America
9. The Cuckoo
10. Together
Welcome
to BIFF Online - the official website of the 12th Brisbane
International Film Festival!
There
are some new features this year which lets you:
- Search all 200 films in the programme.
- Reserve seats in the cinema for sessions you really
don't want to miss.
- Registering your mobile number for special SMS ticket
specials.
- Save and print your own festival programme through
MY FESTIVAL.
- Save time (and phone booking fees) by purchasing
tickets and redeeming passes online.
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