Each year the Festival acknowledges a distinguished contributor to Australian cinema through the Chauvel Award, presented this year by the Brisbane City Council.
Previous Recipients of the Chauvel Award:
Paul Cox (1993)
Fred Schepisi (1994)
Gillian Armstrong (1995)
George Miller (1996)
John Seal (1997)
Rolf de Heer (1998)
Bob Ellis (1999)
Bryan Brown (2000)
Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson (2001)
Jan Chapman (2002)
Tony Buckley (2003)
Geoffrey Rush (2004)
The Brisbane International Film Festival presented by Vision is proud to announce that the recipient of this year's Chauvel Award is documentary filmmaker David Bradbury.
During the festival, David Stratton will host an on-stage question-and-answer session with David Bradbury, in which he will discuss his career and show clips from some of his films. The audience will also have the chance to participate when the floor is opened to questions. Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet David Bradbury.
For details of this year's presentation, click here
For backround information on the Chauvel Award, clickhere
For the full achievements of David Bradbury, click here
FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is the international federation of film critics, and has members in sixty countries. Founded in the late 1920s in France, Belgium, and Italy, FIPRESCI is represented at many of the major world film Festivals.
FIPRESCI's charter is to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema. FIPRESCI awards the International Film Critics Prize at a variety of international film Festivals. FIPRESCI's first jury prize was presented to David Lean's Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
The FCCA (Film Critics' Circle of Australia) is the national body of professional film critics, reviewers, and writers on cinema. As well as participating in various overseas FIPRESCI juries, the FCCA presents annual awards for Australian features, documentaries, and shorts.
Nominees for the FIPRESCI Award for Asia-Pacific film are:
Born 1939 in Germany, Klaus Eder studied German literature at Stuttgart University. He worked as a film critic from the mid-1960s and has written books on Andrzej Wajda, Luis Buñuel, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Konchalovski, Arturo Ripstein, Im Kwon-taek, and Nagisa Oshima. He is the programmer of the Munich International Film Festival and adviser to a variety of others, and has been general secretary of FIPRESCI since 1987.
Mike Walsh is head of the Screen Studies Department at Flinders University in Adelaide. He is also programming advisor in Asian cinema for the Adelaide Film Festival. He has published in various anthologies and journals, as well as being the coordinating editor of The Velvet Light Trap for a time. He currently writes on Asian and Australian cinema for Metro and RealTime.
Julietta Zacharová is the program director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and a member of the Czech section of FIPRESCI. For her PhD, she studied the early history of cinema in the Austrian–Hungarian monarchy, and has worked with the Prague National Film Archive on several research projects. She has written for several Czech magazines, including Film a Doba, Cinepur, Labyrint, and Rock a Pop.
NETPAC (the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) takes as one of its aims the promotion of Asian cinema's role in the development of cultural diversity and integrity in the face of late-twentieth-century globalisation. It involves filmmakers, critics, Festivals, programmers, distributors, exhibitors, and film educators.
One of the ways of promoting Asian cinema is through the presentation of the NETPAC Award at film Festivals. The Brisbane International Film Festival is proud to host the NETPAC Award in Australia.
Kazakhstan / Japan / France / Switzerland / Netherlands
Of Love and Eggs
Garin Nugroho
Indonesia
Portrait of a Lady Far Away
Ali Mosaffa
Iran
Sanctuary
Ho Yu-hang
Malaysia
So Cute
Kim Su-hyeon
South Korea
Tang Poetry
Zhang Lu
China/South Korea
Spying Cam
Whang Cheol-mean
South Korea
Jury for the NETPAC Award are:
Julie Rigg is ABC Radio National's specialist film critic. In l990, she won the BP Arts Media Award. She served on the executive of the Film Critics' Circle of Australia for four years, and was president for two. Julie has also served on FIPRESCI juries at San Sebastián (l990) and Toronto (2002). In December 2003, she was awarded the prestigious Geraldine Pascall Prize for arts criticism.
Scott Rosenberg is managing director of AMW International, a Bangkok-based film entertainment PR and marketing boutique. He also serves as Asian Pacific Bureau Chief of the US-based Film Journal International. Scott has been a consultant to many international film festivals, most recently serving as chair of the NETPAC jury at Cinemanila 2004. For three years, he was chair of the CineAsia ‘Production' International Advisory Committee.
Indu Shrikent has been the deputy editor of Cinemaya: The Asian Film Quarterly for several years and the co-director of the Cinefan (now Osian's-Cinefan) Festival of Asian Cinema since its inception seven years ago. She has travelled extensively to festivals around the world as a jury member, and has also been on the national jury of the Istanbul Film Festival.
Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values
Inspiration for the first BIFF Interfaith Award in 2003 was drawn from the first Interfaith Jury convened at the 2003 Tehran Film Festival by SIGNIS representative Petre Malone. SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, organised ecumenical juries to judge films on criteria that take into account the films' artistic, qualities and the human, social and spiritual values that they express.
Mark Byrne has a PhD in religious studies from the University of Sydney. He currently works on Indigenous reconciliation and bilateral issues in the Asia-Pacific region for the Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre in Sydney. He gives public talks on conflict and reconciliation in Australian cinema, and has recently published on this theme in The Australian and Eureka Street.
Jan Epstein is a film critic and journalist who has been writing and broadcasting about film for fifteen years. She has been published widely in magazines and newspapers, and has contributed to many journals and books, including The Oxford Companion to Australian Film.
Born in Tehran, Alireza Ghanie received a master's in music and dramatic art in Salzburg, Austria. He worked extensively in theatre and opera as a painter and designer, and made several short films including Hand in Hand (1994), for which he received the Europe Tolerance Award. The Wind Game (2002) was his first feature.
The FIPRESCI, NETPAC and Interfaith Award recipients will receive an original linocut print by Laurie Nona, pictured here with one of these artworks, Murra Buai (Family Structure).
Laurie Nona was born in 1974 on Badu Island in the Torres Strait. As part of his cultural heritage he learnt the traditional craft of carving along with the rich story telling and ceremonies of the island. His linocut skills feature an intricate decorative style. Nona feels strongly about maintaining his culture through his art not only through the technique but his use of the stories of his people.
As well as a talented exhibition artist and a musician, he works as a Police Aide in the Queensland Police Force. Nona is currently based in Brisbane.
The Lexus Inside Film Awards are the people's choice awards for Australian films.
The awards celebrate and champion Australian film and creative talent. The Lexus Inside Film Awards creates a unique dialogue between Australian filmmakers and their audience, supports and promotes Australian cinema and invigorates a national screen culture.
The 14th Brisbane International Film Festival presented by Vision is a Lexus Inside Film Awards accredited film screening. All current Australian content screening at BIF is eligible for the Lexus Inside Film Awards 2005.
