The Adelaide Film Festival today revealed its first phase of announcements, with the much-anticipated feature film, Tracks to have its premiere on the Festival’s opening night.
Tracks, starring internationally acclaimed Australian actress Mia Wasikowska and filmed in South Australia, will lead a 10-day film-fest across Adelaide. Tracks will premiere at the Festival Theatre on October 10, with tickets on sale from today at BASS.
Festival CEO and Director Amanda Duthie also announced today:
· Respected and well-loved film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton have signed on as Festival patrons
· Acclaimed artist Daniel Crooks has been commissioned to present his new work during the Festival.
The Adelaide Film Festival – which runs October 10-20 – again promises to highlight the best of local, Australian and internationally produced films, with an eclectic mix of cinema, television, art and the moving image.
Tracks to open the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival
Tracks, starring Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre, Stoker) and Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls) and directed by John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don’t Live Here Anymore), tells the inspirational true story of Robyn Davidson’s 2700km solo trek from the harsh centre of Australia to the Indian Ocean, aided only by her faithful canine companion Diggity, four camels and the National Geographic photographer who chronicled this epic modern adventure.
Charismatic young New Yorker and National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan traveled from the other end of the earth to capture, at intervals, this epic and remarkable journey into one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Robyn reluctantly agreed to a visiting photographer in return for much needed trip funding and could only see Rick’s visits as intruding on her solitude and compromising everything the journey meant to her. However, this uneasy relationship between two very different people would slowly develop into an unlikely and enduring friendship.
Set against one of the wildest and most breathtaking backdrops on the planet, this unprecedented journey pushed Robyn to her physical and emotional limits and taught her that sometimes we have to detach from the world to feel connected to it.
From See-Saw Films, Tracks is produced by Academy Award® winning producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning. It will be distributed in Australia through Transmission Films.
Tracks producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning said: “Having shot the film largely in South Australia, and received such great support from the Adelaide Film Festival as well as the South Australian Film Corporation, we’re thrilled to be able to premiere the film at the Festival. It has been a long journey to bring this story to the screen and we look forward to sharing it with the Festival audience.”
Tracks will premiere at the Festival Theatre, Thursday October 10, at 7pm. Tickets on sale from 9am today from BASS.
The full program for Adelaide Film Festival will be announced late August. Announcements on key speakers and events for Festival of Ideas will be revealed over the coming months.
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