Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Maleny Festival of Australian Film

Australian film buffs are in for a treat at the Maleny Film Society’s 21st Festival of Australian films. By chance, two of the films chosen for the Festival are high on the list for national recognition in upcoming awards ceremonies in 2012. Eye of the Storm and The Hunter have been nominated in multiple categories, including [...]

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“Walk Talking Country”

International drama and documentary filmmaker, Robyn Hofmeyr has combined with Sunshine Coast hinterland Gubi Gubi elder, Bev Hand to produce an intriguing look beneath the surface of Bev’s ancestral land. Robyn, who directed the confronting Women and War documentary, has employed her directorial skills on this portrait of a hinterland unknown to most white residents. Here, Robyn [...]

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Maleny Festival of Australian Film

Actor, Director, Scriptwriter … Judy Morris … is Outspoken with writer, Steven Lang WE ALL KNOW writers have a hard time of it. Their business is words and let’s face it, they’re not shy of using them to let us know how difficult it is being them. But what about scriptwriters? Not only do they have to [...]

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There’s wow in weeds…

MEMBERS of the Maleny Film Co-op have switiched on their cameras to the subject of weeds. Assisted by small grants from the Sunshine Coast Council, Co-op members, Jill Morris, Leanne Farmiloe, Jess Begun and Christine Elcoate are producing a series of short films about the hinterland’s most invasive weeds. Children’s book author, Jill Morris, is leading [...]

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A Film for the Baby Boomers

MIKE LEIGH’S latest slice-of-British-life picture is titled “Another Year.” It is the Maleny Film Society’s feature movie on Saturday May 21. Divided into the four seasons, the year depicted in the title includes a birth, a funeral and expectations of a wedding, but the title itself makes no promise of excitement. Pope’s images of the changing [...]

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House of Horror at Imbil

The Hinterland town of Imbil is the location for a new horror feature film, called Still Waters. The film also stars Maleny actor, Meisha Lowe Still Waters is in the tradition of films like Amityville and centers around a country property that has been touched by evil. Stylistically, the film’s writer director Tana Smith says it [...]

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Gympy Gold Film Festival

The world comes to Gympie as the Heart of Gold International Film Festival screens for its 5th consecutive year from March 17 – 21. Heart of Gold 2011 will present a total of 200 films showcasing the work of filmmakers from 35 countries and across all genres – from James Dean and Elvis along with [...]

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Maleny’s Maleny’s Festival of Festival of Australian Australian Films Films

This year the Maleny Film Festival celebrates its 21st birthday and first up is the society’s annual Australian Film Festival on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 January 2011. Screenings begin on Friday 21 January at 7.15pm with The Ration Shed. This is local film-maker Robyn Hofmeyr’s vision of the transformation of the early buildings at Cherbourg [...]

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Film Director Shirley Barrett … is Outspoken with Steven Lang

Maleny Film Society and Outspoken have joined together in January to bring writer/director Shirley Barrett to town. AS PART of the Australian Film Festival MFS will be showing South Solitary and Love Serenade. Between the screenings Shirley will talk with Steven Lang about, amongst other things, the business of writing for film, what it means to [...]

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Maleny Film Society – September Screenings

Saturday September 11 FOOD INC – (US) PG – Documentary – 94 mins Must-see documentary for anyone who eats … The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several [...]

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