Apr 26

Film – The Shorts Film Festival – Norwood Concert Hall – 28 April – 5 May – Win Tix and Preview

A DRAMATIC WEEK FOR SHORTS

Australia’s love of home grown drama is reflected in the program for this year’s SHORTS Film Festival (April 28 – May 5) with a third of the 60 films to be screened dedicated to the drama genre.

The drama’s storylines and settings though are diverse with tales of an over the hill boxer, a conflict at a suburban skate park and a man struggling with life in the outback among the films being shown over the week-long festival.

Other genres featuring strongly at SHORTS are comedies, animations, documentaries, science fictions and thrillers.
The Festival will be held for the second year at the Norwood Concert Hall thanks to the support of the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peter’s.

SHORTS Film Festival Director David Ngo says this year’s program has the makings of one of the biggest and best festivals in its 9 year history.

“It is going to be a great week. We have films screening from all over Australia and a few from overseas and they’re all of a very high quality. I expect it is going to be our best festival yet,” said David.
“The social atmosphere for which the festival has become popular will continue with the opportunity for people to eat, drink and talk about the films with not only each other, but with many of filmmakers themselves.”

This year, the SHORTS Film Festival received more than 200 entries from across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

The top 60, to be screened during the festival, were decided through a series of judging sessions held in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Judges included film producers, directors, actors and media.

The SHORTS Film Festival will also continue its artistic tradition, started by its patron David Bromley, of showcasing the talents of a South Australian painter.

Datsun Tran has taken on the role of Artist in Residence at this year’s Festival and has created a piece entitled “Witness” to help raise funds to support the running of the event.

“I’ve had an interest in film as far back as I can remember, so I was really excited about the opportunity to create a piece for the 2012 Shorts Film Festival, “said Datsun.
“My painting gives you a peek into the world of the filmmaker.”

Datsun’s painting can be viewed in the offices of the major sponsors of the festival before being taken to Norwood Concert Hall for festival week.

For filmmakers, the SHORTS Film Festival still boasts one of the largest prize pools in Australia worth over $50,000.The winner receives an all expenses paid trip to prestigious international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Sundance or Annecy.
The Black SHORTS Award will also make a return this year. Sponsored by Beach Energy, this award encourages more indigenous films to be made, with the winner receiving $10,000 to help develop their filmmaking career.
This year, SHORTS in conjunction with the Norwood, Payneham and St Peters Council, will also help to encourage the next generation of filmmakers through a series of master classes to be held as part of National Youth Week (April 13-22).
The master classes will be run by four film industry leaders on the topics of Getting Started, Sound Production, Editing and Producing and How to write Festival Friendly Short Films. Further information on the master classes is available from the SHORTS Film Festival website.

In addition to the support provided by the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters, the festival welcomes Flinders University as Principal sponsor along with major sponsors Finlaysons Lawyers and Beach Energy.
Tickets go on sale today (April 3) and are available from the SHORTS Film Festival website. Prices range from $12 to $30.
For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.shortsfilmfestival.com

2012 Shorts Film Festival
WHAT: 2012 Shorts Film Festival
WHERE: Norwood Concert Hall
WHEN: April 28 to May 5
Opening Night – Saturday Night 28 April
Awards Night – Saturday Night 5 May
Weekly Screenings – Sunday 29 April to Friday 4 May
TICKETS:
Opening and Award Nights: $30
Weekly Screening: $15/$12 concession
Group Bookings available
CLASSIFICATION
All films screened during the Festival are unclassified and may occasionally contain adult themes. Admission only to people aged 18 years and over.
BAR AND CATERING
The Shorts Film Festival is a licensed venue and delicious catering options will be available

*** WIN TICKETS ***

Kryztoff has three double passes to giveaway to this Shorts for any night next week – Tuesday to Friday. To enter, just tell us at win@kryztoff.com the name of the Shorts Festival director (see above) by 7pm Sunday evening. Winner advised by email.

Apr 26

Dance – CIRCA at Her Majesty’s 16-19 May – Preview

From Berlin to Adelaide: CIRCA, one of Australia’s most successful exports in Adelaide for the first time

Direct from an 8-month sell out season in Berlin, Australia’s CIRCA embark on a 12-week, 22-venue national tour.  Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide audiences will have an opportunity see Australia’s leading circus company, renowned for stretching the boundaries of circus  as we know it from 16 – 19 May at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

Brisbane-based CIRCA have toured extensively internationally since 2006, touring to 22 countries across five continents and performing to over 500,000 people. In 2011, CIRCA introduced a second full-time ensemble of 7 performers to meet the international demand for their work. In June this year their latest production, How Like an Angel, will feature as part of London’s Cultural Olympiad.

Hailed worldwide as a dynamic force in new circus, Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz attributes the company’s success to the extraordinary skills of its performers and the unique style of CIRCA’s work. “Most new circus is adding theatre and dance to circus, where as we do the opposite. We strip it back and find new emotional landscapes inside what is generally considered to be a spectacle.” Without the ‘hoopla’ normally associated with the circus, these highly individual performers establish an intimate connection with the audience, magnifying the impact of their death defying acts and giving the work its universal appeal.

Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the CIRCA ensemble, the self-titled CIRCA is a large-scale work remixed from three of the Company’s most acclaimed works. Over 75 intense minutes, seven of the world’s best acrobats perform jaw-dropping, spine-bending moves – injected with something special. Combining high energy sound and innovative projections, CIRCA has received rapturous acclaim across the globe – touring to Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, UK, USA, Spain and Buenos Aires.

Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz is a graduate of UNSW, University of Queensland and NIDA, where he was the youngest director ever accepted into its prestigious graduate director’s course. He has directed over 50 productions including mainstage theatre, physical theatre, large scale events and opera. Yaron became Artistic Director/CEO of Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus in 1999, which was then renamed Circa in 2004.

CIRCA will also embark on a regional tour of South Australia, performing in Port Lincoln, Whyalla, and Port Pirie, as part of Country Arts SA’s Season 2012, proudly supported by ETSA Utilities.

“Circa have reinvented circus the way Cirque de Soleil did decades ago… but the young company is way cooler.” MIRROR, MONTREAL

“One hesitates to start a festival off giving a five-star review, but this is truly outstanding.”

THE IRISH TIMES, UK

“Breathtaking” THE GUARDIAN, UK ««««

What: Circa

Venue: Her Majesty’s Theatre

When: 16 – 19 April 7pm, 19 May 2pm

Princi Cost: Adults $40, Conc $35, Student/Child $20, GreenRoom $19.95, Groups (6+) $35, Family (2+2) $100 Season Subscription Adult $35, Conc $30
Suitable: 10 + years

Bookings Bookings: BASS 131 246 or www.bass.net.au

For more information visit www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au or www.countryarts.org.au or www.circa.org.au

Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz Producer Danielle Kellie Tour Manager/Director Sally Blackwood and Diane Stern Lighting Design Jason Organ Costume Design Libby McDonnell  Performed by Nathan Boyle, Jessica Connell, Daniel Crisp, Jarred Dewey, Todd Kilby, Alice Muntz and Brittannie Portelli.

Apr 26

FLO RIDA’S “WHISTLE” OUT NOW!

Flo has sold over 54 million singles worldwide!!

His brand new single WHISTLE is OUT NOW in Australia!

Apr 26

RAW – A4 By Four By Four – The Reading Room Til 3 May

The somewhat curious title for this exhibition can be easily explained, thus providing enlightenment to a viewer. Four young Adelaide photographers are exhibiting four of their images, each restricted to A4 size. The four are Genevieve Brandenburg, Elle Dawson-Scott, Meg Cowell and Stephanie Fuller and their approaches are as varied as their names.

Genevieve Brandenburg - Untitled (Hugh Langlands-Bell)

Brandenburg’s most appeal to this reviewer. She lets her subjects read a short poem ‘No Help For That’ by Charles Bukowski and then captures and portrays their responses to its content after discussing it with them. It is by no means a distant extension of her approach to her 3 Minute Project seen at the Fringe with the outcomes perhaps capable of improvement through a direct quote rather than her summation of their thoughts.

Elle Dawson-Scott seems to possess a fascination for people’s feet with the strongest of her images, entitled Gathered, where we are placed at grass level observing a group of people’s legs and in turn they are observing something going on beyond them in the trees. This image certainly leaves many questions about who these people are, what they are tuned into and whether the angle of the images suggests they have come from the locale of the camera or destined to head towards it.

The last time we saw Meg Cowell she produced a series of images of the same subject matter as here, only then they were the size of bathroom mirrors. Again, one’s immediate thought is that the colourful folded objects photographed against a black background are roses but closer inspection reveals they are in fact discarded feminine garments. The effects of light and shadow and Cowell’s use of water to sparkle up the outcomes are effective though the claims for them to be ‘metaphors for the complex transitions of culturalised feminine identity’ are somewhat less tangible.

Steph Fuller presents memories of our childhood, the places and spaces and objects (here Grandad’s Caravan, Nanna’s Porch and the like) that may quickly sharpen up our memories to those wonderful times. The images are nothing special, there is for example no streams of light to spruce up the nostalgia, but if one allows one’s mind to displace the physical photos in front with visions sourced from out of your own memory, the experience is rewarding.

Apr 26

PORTUGAL. THE MAN – new video for “All Your Light (Times Like This)” (NSFW)

(video link) http://youtu.be/ZonfGts68Y4 (NSFW)

The new video for Portugal. The Man’s “All Your Light (Times Like This)” from their latest album ‘In The Mountain In The Cold’, plus this features portions of RZA’s remix of the track… which can be found in full length here http://soundcloud.com/atlanticrecords/portugal-the-man-all-my-light

Apr 26

JON GOMM (UK) THIS SATURDAY

JON GOMM (UK) TO TOUR AUSTRALIA IN APRIL

Jon Gomm who Acoustic Magazine tagged as “one of the worlds most successful, gifted and inspirational guitar players” is coming to Australia for a series of concert events in April 2012. Jon is an acoustic singer-songwriter with an incredible virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, bass lines and sparkling melodies all at the same time.

Once you get over the jaw-dropping maneuvers and technique, you will be rewarded with some spectacularly beautiful songs. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting however, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. Gomm’s live shows combine deeply personal performances and a natural wit, with a once-seen-never- forgotten two-handed guitar style, both physical and complex, producing sounds

people can barely believe are coming from a humble acoustic guitar.

http://youtu.be/nY7GnAq6Znw

Jon first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of two (actually it was a ukulele – his parents couldn’t find a guitar small enough). He wrote his first song at the age of six, and was soon accompanying his father, a music critic, to gigs in his hometown of Blackpool. Touring musicians would often stay at the Gomm household on the understanding Jon would get a guitar lesson, meaning he had one-to-one instruction from such blues legends as Walter Trout and Bob Brozman.

Nowadays Gomm tours internationally, he has a huge cult following and is regarded by those in the know as one of the world’s most talented and innovative guitarists, and is cited as an influence by many other performers. Jon’s videos are watched thousands of times within days of appearing on Youtube, and his home-recorded debut album “Hypertension” sold over ten thousand copies with no industry backing.

On tour with Jon is local producer singer and synth whizz Andy Sorenson. Andy’s rock influenced piano and vocal performance heavily feature ambient vocal effects and synthesizer loops which are organically built up throughout the show.

This is going to be a great night of music!

Proudly presented by Translator Records: Jon Gomm On Tour in Australia. Translator Records, is an Australian boutique recording and touringlabel have predominately worked in the development and promotion of African and Indigenous artists.

You can catch Jon Gomm & special guest Andy Sorenson live in concert at:

Friday 13th April: The National Hotel, Geelong Sat 14th April: The Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne Sun 15th April: Park & Wallace Café, Braidwood (via Canberra) Tues 17th April: Lizottes, Kincumber, Central Coast NSW Wed 18th April: Freedom Music Cronulla (Clinic) Thurs 19th April: The Basement, Sydney Sat 21st April: Byron Bay Brewery Sun 22nd April: Solbar, Sunshine Coast Tues 24th April: Old Museum, Brisbane Thurs 26th April: Lizottes, Newcastle Sat 28th April: Higher Ground, Adelaide

For tickets and details go to www.translatorrecords.com

For all media and interview opportunities please contact Kathy Johnston – 0409 508 505 or info@translatorrecords.com


Apr 26

RAW – Mousetrap For Adelaide – Oct at Playhouse

ADELAIDE TO BE MOUSETRAPPED AS PART OF GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS OF THE 60th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ICONIC PLAY

Michael Coppel, Louise Withers, Linda Bewick in association with Adrian Barnes announced today by arrangement with Mousetrap Productions Ltd London that Agatha Christie’s iconic play, The Mousetrap will play a season in Adelaide as part of the Diamond Anniversary 2012 Australian Tour with a strictly limited season at The Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre from October 9 – 28.

Confirmation of the Adelaide season follows the previous announcement of seasons in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne with additional cities to follow.

This all-Australian production is one of 60 professional productions that have been licensed worldwide in celebration of The Mousetrap’s (60th) Diamond Anniversary, which will include productions in every continent with productions scheduled for countries from Russia and China to Turkey, Holland and Venezuela.

Producer Louise Withers said, “We’re delighted to be able to confirm a season of The Mousetrap in Adelaide as part of the 2012 Australian Tour. Since we announced the Australian tour at the beginning of the year, requests from Adelaide theatregoers to bring the production to South Australia have been overwhelming and we look forward to coming to Adelaide with a wonderful company.”

The Mousetrap will be brought to life in Australia by a stellar cast, which includes Robert Alexander (Bell Shakespeare, Dance Academy, Muriel’s Wedding), Travis Cotton (MTC’s Hamlet, Black Swan’s Away), Linda Cropper (Offspring, Melba, Little Fish, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Nicholas Hope (AFI recipient; Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Bad Boy Bubby), Jacinta John (All Saints, McLeod’s Daughters), Gus Murray (Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, McLeod’s Daughters), Justin Smith (Bastard Boys, Rent, BillyElliot the Musical) and Christy Sullivan (MTC’s Next to Normal, Packed to the Rafters)

Christie’s classic ‘whodunit” opened on London’s West End in November 1952 and has since played over 24,000 performances. The Mousetrap is the longest running show of any kind in the world and continues to delight audiences to this day at London’s St. Martin’s Theatre.

The Australian Diamond Anniversary Tour of The Mousetrap will open at The Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay on June 30 and will go on to play at Perth’s His Majesty’s Theatre from August 14 and Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from August 30 before transferring to Adelaide for a strictly limited season at The Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre from October 9 – 28.

At Monkswell Manor, the news on the radio reports that a murder that has recently taken place in London. Mollie and Giles Ralston (Christy Sullivan, Gus Murray), the young owners of the once-regal estate recently converted into a guesthouse hardlynotice the news. They are far too busy preparing for the arrival of their first guests and concerned that the heavy snowfalls may prevent the guests reaching their destination. As the guests arrive safely and the Manor becomes snowed in, a policeman, Sergeant Trotter (Justin Smith) arrives on skis suspecting that one of the seven occupants may be the killer.   After a second murder occurs in the Manor, Trotter is convinced.  Suspects include the young married couple, Miss Casewell (Jacinta John), a spinster with a curious background and the eccentric Christopher Wren (Travis Cotton). Also under suspicion are an unpleasant and difficult guest, Mrs. Boyle (Linda Cropper), as well as the retired Major Metcalf (Nicholas Hope), and Mr. Paravicini (Robert Alexander), an unexpected visitor who claims his car has run into a snowdrift.   During his interrogation, Sergeant Trotter uncovers the many mysterious secrets of everyone present, as he tries to solve the murder in true Christie style.

The Mousetrap has thrilled audiences that span many generations and continues to delight a new generation of theatregoers nightly with all the classic elements that have made Agatha Christie’s works as appealing today as when they were first written. The Mousetrap is sure to be a highlight on the national arts calendar for 2012 and celebrate the play’s Diamond (60th) Anniversary with a superb all-Australian production.

The Mousetrap will be produced in Australia by Michael Coppel, Louise Withers, Linda Bewick in association with Adrian Barnes by arrangement with Mousetrap Productions Ltd London.

The Mousetrap has thrilled audiences that span many generations and continues to delight a new generation of theatregoers nightly with all the classic elements that have made Agatha Christie’s works as appealing today as when they were first written. The Mousetrap is sure to be a highlight on the national arts calendar for 2012 and celebrate the play’s Diamond (60th) Anniversary with a superb all-Australian production.

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S

THE MOUSETRAP

ADELAIDE

The Playhouse, The Adelaide Festival Centre

October 9 – 28

BASS Ticketing 131 246

Group Bookings 08 8205 2220

www.bass.net.au

Tickets from: $40 – $120

Tickets on sale May 3

Apr 23

RAW – Miss Burlesque Grand Final Results For SA Entrants

It is with great excitement that the MBA SA Finalists return from Sydney, where the Grand Final was held on Saturday.

Congratulations go to:

Jolie Mystique – Mr Boylesque Australia 2nd Runner Up (3rd place)

Dezzi Damned – Miss Pin Up title  awarded to the best performer whose poses accentuated the female form in Miss Burlesque Australia

Azaria Starfire – Miss Fantastic title awarded to the best performer using fans during a routine in Miss Burlesque Australia

The 3 days were jam packed full of media stunts, photoshoots, TV interviews with The Morning Show & the big event.

The SA contingent represented the state with the upmost class & sophistication & were a favourite amongst the 800 strong audience.

The overall winners were:

Briana Bluebell – Miss Burlesque Australia

Raven – Mr Boylesque Australia

Images By Paul Cush – www.paulcush.com

Apr 23

RAW – 2012 South Australian Screen Awards Winners Announced

The Media Resource Centre – South Australia’s centre for screen culture development – is proud to announce the winners of 2012 South Australian Screen Awards (SASAs).

Now in its 13th year as SA’s premiere screen awards, SASA continues to reward excellence and outstanding achievements from South Australian-based filmmakers.

With thousands of dollar in cash and prizes, SASA continues to provide an exciting platform for South Australian screen practitioners to showcase their work across drama, comedy, documentary, animation, music video, non-narrative & digital media.

The multi-award winning The Palace – which chronicles a young family’s desperate struggle for survival during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus – scooped the pool this year winning a total of 6 awards, including Best Drama, Best Screenplay, Best Direction and Best Short Film.

SASA caps off a stunning year of recognition for The Palace, which has now won every major award in the country including Best Film at Flickerfest, Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals and an inaugural AACTA award.

“The Palace is a poignant and tragic tale about the realities of war. Realistically portrayed with beautifully performances and gripping suspense, Anthony Maras is a director to keep an eye on.”

SASA judge Vincent Sheehan (producer of Animal Kingdom and The Hunter).
Collision and Suburban Samurai – both produced by Projector Films – picked up awards for Best Composition (Collision) and Best Performance (Roy Phung in Suburban Samurai)

Closer Productions’ Stunt Love won Best Sound Design while their second feature film Shut Up Little Man – which successfully debuted at Sundance Film Festival last year – won Best Feature Film. This follows on from their feature Life in Movement winning Best Feature Film at SASA in 2011.

SASA 2012 also awarded jury prizes to cinematographer Sam King (Young Filmmaker of the Year) and producer Kirsty Stark (MRC Emerging Producer) in recognition of the outstanding creative contributions made by these two up-and-coming SA filmmakers.

The full list of 2012 SASA winners

SASA GENRE AWARDS:


Best Short Film: The Palace

Anthony Maras, Kate Croser & Andros Achilleos


Best Drama: The Palace

Anthony Maras, Kate Croser & Andros Achilleos


Best Documentary: Ball of Light Sam Collins


Best Comedy: Steak Knife Chad Leader


Best Animation: Sometimes the Stars Luke Jurevicius


Best Non-Narrative Film: A Dance in the Garden Reminds Me Gemma Soloman


Best Music Video: Cut You Out (Hawks of Alba) Matt Vesley


Innovation in Digital Media: Big Stories, Small Towns Nick Crowther


Best Feature Film: Shut Up Little Man Sophie Hyde & Matthew Bate


SASA CRAFT AWARDS:

Best Direction: Anthony Maras (The Palace)


Best Cinematography: Nick Matthews (The Palace)


Best Composition: Michael Darren (Collision)


Best Screenplay: Anthony Maras (The Palace)


Best Sound Design: Pete Best & Scott Illingworth (Stunt Love)


Best Editing: Anthony Maras (The Palace)


Best Performance: Roy Phung (Suburban Samurai)


Best Production Design: Bowen Ellames (Beta)


MRC Emerging Producer: Kirsty Stark


Emerging Young Filmmaker: Sam King


People’s Choice Award: I Am Orpheus (Adam Carter)

Apr 20

RAW: Doubt – St Jude’s Players – 4K

John Patrick Shanley’s 2004 play, Doubt, set in a catholic church in New York in 1964, is a searing investigation into the issues that can surround the potential of child abuse by people in positions of authority. As school principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvior (Julie Quick), hardens her views and approach of the suspect behaviour of her subordinate teacher but Catholic church superior, Father Brendan Flynn (Nigel Tripodi), she is confronted by the usual villains cruelling the pitch of her beliefs – the nice guys who don’t want to get involved (Sister James played by Miriam Keane) and the realities of the family life of the alleged victim (here, the mother of the boy, played by Da Lingo) that more than adequately raises questions of doubt.

Played out against the appalling reality of the institutional handling of such problems and the perpetrators over very many years by (not only) the Catholic Church, audience members are torn between Sister Aloysius’ search for the ‘facts’ and the potential of the comforting spin of Father Flynn, and whether to defend the decency of an extracurricular caring hand or staunchly believe the potential of the vulnerable young can broach no compromise.

Whatever, the St Jude’s Players do an excellent job. Using a stage area divided up into three scene sets, director, Robert McCarthy has got his three main players’ performances spot on with their character depictions, noting particularly the performance of Julie Quick (who was called in at short notice due to illness). Da Lingo’s rebuttal of Sister Aloysius also hits its mark.

As these issues remain (sadly) as fresh today as fifty years ago, with the consequences of dealing with them as varied and as counterproductive only more stark, the St Jude’s Players deliver the punches in an all quality performance that, unlike the film adaptation, keeps you focused on the issues and the people and not the over the top show of the star (in that case Meryl Streep).

Kryztoff Rating   4K