Tuesday, November 23, 2010

8th Australian Film Festival



The Australian Embassy presents the 8th Australian Film Festival featuring critically-acclaimed feature and short animated films from Nov. 26 to Nov. 28, 2010 at Cinema 4, Glorietta 4 Cinemas.

The festival will open with a special screening of the “claymated” feature film Mary and Max by Academy Award-winning director Adam Elliot. The film’s set construction manager, Shaun Patten, will be in Manila to open the festival and to conduct masterclasses on “The Art of Mary and Max” at the University of the Philippines Film Institute and De La Salle University-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts.

Also featured are The Magic Pudding, a film based on an Australian children's classic and the mixed animation and live action film, Look Both Ways. Elliot's Oscar-winning Harvie Krumpet leads this year's selection of short films which also includes Footnote, The Projectionist, Mother Tongue, Mozzie and the Oscar-nominated shorts The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, Ward 13 and Birthday Boy.

Schedule:
Short film suite 1 - November 26 - 4:00pm and 6:00pm
Look Both Ways - November 26 - 8:00pm
The Magic Pudding - November 27 - 4:00 PM
Short film Suite 3 - November 27 - 6:00 PM
Mary and Max - November 27 - 8:00 PM
The Magic Pudding - November 28 - 4:00 PM
Mary and Max - November 28 - 6:00 PM
Look Both Ways - November 28 - 8:00 PM

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