FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT

FRIDAY 5th AUGUST, 6.30PM for 7.00PM SCREENING

Special guest Tara Morice will be in Mount Gambier to introduce her new film Oranges and Sunshine and conduct a Q & A after the screening. Join us for drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm before the screening of … ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (M)

 

Tara Morice– Big Screen Guest
Tara Morice is an actress, singer, dancer and director. Her first film appearance was as Fran in the beloved film Strictly Ballroom. Tara has worked extensively in theatre and televison and also appeared in the films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, and Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance. She wrote and directed the documentary My Biggest Fan. Tara is currently playing Miss Raine in the ABC’s Dance Academy.

 

ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
Friday August 5th 7:00pm
Rating: M
Length: 104 mins
Director: Jim Loach
Produced:
2010

OPENING NIGHT SCREENING
Join us for drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm prior to the screening and meet Tara Morice, whom wil be conducting a Q & A after the film.

Synopsis:
This masterfully mounted, slow-burn drama tells the true story of British social worker
Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) who, in the 1980s, sought to locate the victims of a secret government policy that shipped poor children to the colonies with the promise of a better life.
 

HILDEGARDE
Saturday 6th August 11.00am


Rating:
PG
Length: 90 mins
Director: Lee Robinson
Produced:
1969

FAMILY SCREENING - TICKETS ONLY $5 EACH

Synopsis: When their beloved duck Hildegarde is ‘abduckted’ by bird smugglers it is up to Christopher, Isabel and Jeremy to save the day. Starring Richard E Grant, Tom Long and Tara Morice.
 

RED HILL
Saturday 6th August 3:00pm

Rating:
MA15+
Length: 96 mins
Director: Patrick Hughes
Produced:
2010

Synopsis:
A young police officer’s first day of duty in a small country town turns into a nightmare and he is forced to take the law into his own hands to survive.
Starring Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tom E. Lewis.
 

A HEARTBEAT AWAY
Saturday 7th August 7:00pm

Rating:
PG
Length: 91 mins
Director: Gale Edwards
Produced:
2011

Synopsis:
A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition.

 

SNOWTOWN
Saturday 7th August 9:00pm

Rating:
MA15+
Length: 120mins
Director: Justin Kurzel
Produced:
2011

Synopsis:
In 1990s suburban Adelaide, impressionable 16 year old Jamie forms a friendship with a new man in his mother’s life, John Bunting. John is affable and always smiling, but Jamie fears there is something dangerous about this new father figure - a fear that is soon shown to be well founded.
 

MRS CAREY'S CONCERT
Sunday 8th August 1:00pm

Rating:
PG
Length: 95mins
Director: Bob Connolly
Produced:
2011

Synopsis:
At a Sydney girls school, music director Karen Carey, believing in the transformative powers of performing great music, prepares her young students for a concert at the Opera House... not all of her girls agree.

 

GRIFF THE INVISIBLE
Sunday 8th August 5:15pm

Rating:
M
Length: 90mins
Director: Leon Ford
Produced:
2010

Synopsis:
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he
meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible. Starring
Ryan Kwanten and Maeve Dermody.

 

SLEEPING BEAUTY
Sunday 8th August 7:00pm

Rating:
MA15+
Length: 101mins
Director: Julia Leigh
Produced:
2011

Synopsis:
A haunting portrait of Lucy (Emily Browning), a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires when she takes a strange new job as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’.


Venue & Tickets Info

Oatmill Cinema
7 Percy Street,
Mount Gambier, SA.                                
Ph: 08 8724 9150  

Adults: $13.50
Concession:
$11.00
Children/Seniors:
$9.00

Excluding Hildegarde- Tickets $5 per person

Festival Passes $65 - see all the films for one low price!

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Movie Savers, Gift Vouchers, Gold and Silver Membership not valid for Film Festival tickets.

Festival website: www.nfsa.gov.au