Instead of bore-ing you with details as to why I don't blog enough, I'd like to share my schedule for this year's Sydney Film Festival. It seems like everyone has done one, so why not paint myself like a sheep and join in!
Sydney Film Festival means a bit more than watching movies all day and being completely immersed in festival-mode for over a week. To me it was arguably (between me and, myself) the starting point at which I began my love for film and desire to work at film festivals. My first SFF was in 2009, when I had just left a photomedia degree for film school. I thought volunteering at SFF would be a great way to watch lots of films and meet like-minded people. Watch lots of films, and meet like-minded people I did. I volunteered at a range of other film festivals after SFF that year, and also broadened my knowledge on film distribution through festivals. I also met Kieran who, in flowerless language, is my partner in crime to this very day. So SFF has been a bit of a significant event in my life, and it's always a pleasure (understatement) to be returning to it year after year since that very memorable year of 2009.
I was lucky enough to be able to book into more films than usual this year after receiving a flexipass gift from Kieran. We split it, of course, and still bought another afterwards. Unfortunately this year I am missing out on 3 full days of festival goodness due to travel.
There are some other films I wish I could fit in. To name a few, BULLY,
MONSIEUR LAZHAR, POLISSE, THE KING OF PIGS and HOLY MOTORS.
Anyhow, here's my schedule for this year's Sydney Film Festival:
JUNE 6
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Tatsumi
JUNE 7
La Pirogue
JUNE 8
Moonrise Kingdom
JUNE 9
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Maori Boy Genius
The Imposter
JUNE 10-12
away
JUNE 13
Headshot
JUNE 14
The World Before Her
Our Homeland
JUNE 15
For Ellen
JUNE 16
Postcards From The Zoo
Side By Side
The Last Dogs of Winter
JUNE 17
Undefeated
And to finish this post, I thought I'd share this memorable scene from Annie Hall. I sure hope I don't have to listen to anyone like that in the queues this year!
