THE FOURTH Heart of Gold International Film Festival will screen in Gympie from March 11-14. It will offer film buffs a total of 171 films including 166 shorts and 5 feature length film from 22 countries.
The 2010 program features quality films across all genres: comedy, drama, animation documentaries and student films have been selected for their excellence in film making. Amongst the 171 films is Australian actor Bud Tingwell’s last film titled The Last Bottle. Frank Woodley (of Lano & Woodley comedy duo) brings more humour to the program through his delightful short animation Chicken of God (below).
Kat Stewart [Underbelly] appears in a strong supporting role in a beautiful film titled Trampoline and David Wenham delivers a classic performance in a movie titled Glenn Owen Dodds [GOD] which carries the tagline -“Want to know the meaning of life? You’ve got five minutes.” (right)
The festival presents a fantastic family program which includes the stunning animation titled Lost & Found [UK].Narrated by British actor Jim Broadbent, this gorgeous feature film is about a little boy and his unsolicited mission to get a lost penguin back home to Antarctica. Also part of the family program is Luc Jacquet’s first film since March of the Penguins entitled The Fox and The Child: a beautifully shot feature film about a life changing encounter between a fox and a young girl set amongst breathtaking scenery.
Heart of Gold International Film Festival offers special events, documentaries, workshops, seminar programs and the very popular Filmmaker Presents sessions along with its extensive short film program from around the world.
The Heart of Gold festival recruited Malcolm Blaylock as its director. He has directed the St Kilda Film Festival and has also served as a jury member for Interfilm Berlin and Spain’s Short Film Festival Bilbao.
Malcolm commented on the quality of the Heart of Gold “There are so many good films, from all over the world. As I travelled the various film festivals this year I was looking for films that were entertaining and that fitted our unique brief. Regardless of genre, each film had to have somewhere within its premise -no matter how deeply or darkly placed – a positive spin on the world and a positive view of humanity”.
Heart of Gold International Film Festival
Gympie Civic Centre, 11 – 14 March 2010
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