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Films now bring gold to Gympie

6. March 2010

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Films now bring gold to Gympie

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 [...]

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This Quiet Chaos

3. February 2010

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Maleny Film Society Saturday 13 February QUIET CHAOS (Italy) MA15+ Drama 112mins New Summer / Autumn program - out 13 February Pietro is a successful executive, happily married, and father of 10-year old Claudia. After a morning at the beach, which culminated in saving the lives of two drowning women, he arrives home to discover his own wife’s fatal accident. Resuming [...]

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Maleny Film-Maker joins search for identity

12. January 2010

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Maleny Film-Maker joins search for identity

White Skin Black Spirit … my search for identity is a brave and uplifting story told on film by Maleny film-maker Paul Alister. In his 46-minute documentary Paul records the remarkable emotional journey of Crystal Waters resident, Terri-Anne Goodreid, who travelled to the Northern Territory to trace her aboriginal roots and discover her lost family [...]

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David Williamson opens Maleny Film Festival

12. January 2010

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David Williamson opens Maleny Film Festival

CONTINUING its commitment to Australian film, the Maleny Film Society launches its annual festival of film with a Celebration of Indigenous Film and Culture on 9 January. Several excellent films will be shown by local filmmakers including Samson and Delilah which swept the board at the recent AFI awards. The weekend festival will be launched at [...]

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Creative Cuts

2. December 2009

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Creative Cuts

Fundraiser for Utribe Festival Thanks to the generosity of many friends, the first fundraising gig for Utribe Festival is on at Crystal Waters on Saturday 5 December. With the line-up including Maleny’s Hayden Hack and band, Khan and band from the Sunshine Coast, Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs fresh from their recent east coast [...]

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Creative Cuts

11. November 2009

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Creative Cuts

French horn concerto treat   The energetic and enthusiastic French Horn student from the Queensland Conservatorium, Armin Terzer, (below) will be the soloist in the beautiful Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat K.417 with the Pacific Chamber Orchestra. Antoni Bonetti, who will conduct the orchestra, is an extremely well known musician, [...]

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Creative Cuts

11. October 2009

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Creative Cuts

Gumboots … the musical! Five of Queensland’s most promising musicians bring their sumptuous harmonies of strings and clarinet to the Hinterland when the Strahlend Quintet per form at Maleny’s Braeside B & B on Saturday October 17. The Strahlend Quintet are the 2009 winners of the annual Gertrude Langer Ensemble Award which each [...]

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MFS Films in Review

16. September 2009

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Elegy (USA) drama/romance 108 mins M September 12 Driven by Isabel Coixet’s visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegycharts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilises him. However, this isn’t a conventional romance between an ageing man and [...]

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Films in Review by the Maleny Film Society

2. July 2009

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4th July The Class (France) documentary/drama 130 mins M Winner Palme d’Or , Cannes Film Festival 2009 Based on an autobiographical novel by teacher Francois Begaudeau, this is the story of Marin, a teacher in an ethnically diverse, inner-city Paris high school. Although a drama, the film has the energy of a documentary. Through a series of extraordinarily [...]

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March Films in Review

5. March 2009

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14th March *Lemon Tree* Israel 106 minutes Drama Rating: G The drama of the Arab-Israeli conflict is played out in microcosm through the fate of a lemon grove. Based on a true story, this touching Israeli film tells the tale of widowed Salma. Her lemon grove on the Israeli-West bank border is seen as a security threat when [...]

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