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Films now bring gold to Gympie

6. March 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]

Maleny Film-Maker joins search for identity

12. January 2010

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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 [...]

David Williamson opens Maleny Film Festival

12. January 2010

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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 [...]

Creative Cuts

2. December 2009

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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 [...]

Creative Cuts

11. November 2009

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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, [...]

Creative Cuts

11. October 2009

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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