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SPECIAL EVENTS
Each year BIFF hosts a number of spectacular functions
in association with the Festival Programme. Mark the following
dates in your calendar!
BIFF
Opening Night - Tuesday
27 July
The Party
of the Year!
Brisbane International Film Festival's Opening Night
Celebrations
Brisbane will be alive with mayhem and chaos when Geoffrey
Rush and his alter-ego Hrundi V. Bakshi attend the opening
night of the 13th Brisbane International Film Festival
on 27 July 2004.
The
Life and Death of Peter Sellers is our opening
night film.
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The
film stars Geoffrey Rush and traces
the British comic's turbulent rise from a popular
BBC radio performer to one of the world's most
gifted actors.
Download
full Media Release of the Opening Night
click here PDF (112kb
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Have
your song-poem performed at the Off the Charts: The
Song-Poem Story screening!
- Sunday
1st August, 2:10pm
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Richard Kuipers (Film
critic, Variety) will host an in-cinema performance
of
song-poems, penned by BIFF audience members and
performed by local
song-smiths Bill (Polyvinyl) and Robin (The Boat
People).
Here's how it works:
Either
submit your best lyrics now by emailing jen@biff.com.au
or bring them along and hand them in at the screening.
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After the film has screened, Richard Kuipers will ask
for any more poems from the audience. They will then
be spontaneously performed a la the American song-poem
industry in the genre of your choice – pop, rock,
country, nu-metal!
No royalty cheques, but a prize will be awarded for
the audience favourite!
For full info on Off The Charts: The Song Poem Story,
click
here
Email your lyrics now!
Showcase
Screening 1 - Tuesday 3rd August
De-Lovely
is our first showcase screening.
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Irwin
Winkler's quirky, joyous film is a sparkling celebration
of one of America's most loved composers - Cole
Porter. Starring Kevin Kline with Ashley
Judd it's de-lightful, de-licious, de-lectable,
it's de-lovely.
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of all its a film not to be missed |
Join us after
the screening at The Belgium Beer Cafe - Brussels
and be entertained by classic Cole Porter tunes.
Serving more than thirty beers from the Kingdom of Belgium,
it is a purrrfect post screening party venue,its design
and ambience reflecting not only traditonal 1920's Belgian
Beer cafes but also the country's commitment to the
theatre of Beer.
| Listen to 97.3 to
win tickets to this showcase screening! |
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Showcase
Screening 2 - Thursday
5th August
Intimate
Strangers is our second showcase sceening.
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Chameleon-like
filmmaker Leconte tackles a Hitchcock-style romantic
thriller with this enjoyably atmospheric, deeply
engaging mystery. A chance meeting, a case
of mistaken identity, a woman in trouble, a jealous
husband... Leconte delivers a brilliant, intricate,
richly suspenseful romance peppered with humour
and insight.
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Join us after
the screening at Chill on Queen Vodka Bar
for the exclusive post party. Experience some
of the Chill on Queen's more than 80 imported Vodkas
and two Scandinavian inspired ice bars.
| Click on ten at
www.ten.com.au to register to win tickets to
this showcase screening! |
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Closing
Night - Sunday
8th August
Before
Sunset is the film which been chosen to close
this years festival.
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In
1995, nine years ago, a small unconventional indie
film called Before Sunrise charted a
chance encounter on a train between Celine, a
Frenchwoman, and Jesse, an American man. It's
nine years on; it's Paris; it's before sunset.
And now they finally reconnect.
Richard
Linklater and his two leads, Ethan Hawke and Julie
Delpy combine talents to create this superb indie
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Fast
Film -
Wednesday 28th July
For more info
on this years Fast Film click
here
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