Jun 6, 2012

My Sydney Film Festival 2012 Schedule

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!