News Update?!!?

Hilarious and interesting feature articles are coming, but for the meantime here are a few bits of St Kilda Film Festival-related news…

‘The Palace’ Victory

Congratulations to one of this year’s Top 100 films ‘The Palace’, which has won big at the South Australian Screen Awards, taking home four awards including Best Short Film and Best Director for Anthony Maras. The 1970s Cyprus-set drama is an intense short about home invasion and confronting enemy forces face-to-face and will surely be a highlight of this year’s program. Intrigued to see what all the buzz is about…

Campfire Inspiration

Campfire Film Festival is to be held on May 12^th at ACMI. With an emphasis on philosophy and spirituality it’s aimed at high school students, teachers and film practitioners alike. Featured films include an anti-bullying animation and Chris Lilley-style mockumentary.

For those who are hungry for a taste of festival atmosphere before SKFF, check out the website at http://www.campfire.org.au/cff2012

Oscar Loves Emily

Earlier in the week, Festival director Paul Harris got an exciting email informing us here at SKFF HQ, that Top 100 short film ‘Emily’ is up for a Student Academy Award (Oscar Junior). Although not as renowned as its older brother, Oscar Junior has helped launch the careers of industry greats Spike Lee and Robert Zemeckis.

We congratulate director Ben Matthews and look forward to him and all other filmmakers in competition for the Top 100. It’s going to be tough to separate all the strong entries this year.

Finally…

The trailer is finished and is simply beautiful. Be among the first and see it below ;D

Lots of Kind Cheers and Sincere Regards

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Antici... pation

Good Afternoon!

With just over two months to go, the preparation for the St Kilda Film Festival 2012 is fully underway and excitement (anxiety) for opening night is quickly building in the office. Paul (Festival Director), Adele, Jake, Amber, Angus, Annie, Sophie, Malcolm, Anthoula and Paul (other Paul - sponsorship guy) are the dynamic team at the heart of SKFF. Each has an area of expertise to contribute, from production management to marketing to programming, that I'll investigate in the coming week(s).

The 'Top 100 Short Films' list is being finalised, the 'International Programme' is being fine-tuned and the choice of seating for Opening Night is being heatedly debated. The main energy sources for staff are sushi and strong coffee - a winning combination in any scenario. The harsh fluorescent office lights don't distract from the wonderful array of shorts being scrutinised by staff.

Most recently (at noon today), a team of graphic designers spoiled the staff for choice with an eclectic range of St Kilda Film Festival artwork which will be prevalent on the festival website, Facebook, Twitter, and on this little ol' blog in the coming week (I speculate).  So follow and comment on the upcoming material! I assure you it will be sufficiently urbane (with a trimming of grunge). You WILL want to buy the t-shirt!

Lots of love Kind Regards,

Internbot186

Welcome!!

Oh, how lovely of you stop by!

Welcome to the 2012 St Kilda Film Festival blog, the 'personal' side of the festival where all the behind-the-scenes theatrics are revealed in explicit detail (well, partially anyway). During the lead-up and festival itself, this blog will be flooded with all kinds of trivia, attempts at humour and interviews with glamorous film folk.

Visit us at the Twitter and Facebook links for vital information... all the FUN stuff will be coming to the blog!

Cheers,

Anonymous Intern