Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund
| Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund | |
|---|---|
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Established | 2003 |
| Founder | Premier Mike Rann |
| Operated by | Adelaide Film Festival |
| Website |
adelaidefilmfestival |
The Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund was established in 2003 by the South Australian Premier, Mike Rann, to boost the local production of films.
When the American festival director Peter Sellars was director of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts, he commissioned five films, then left in controversial circumstances before the festival started. Four of those films won awards, including The Tracker, Beneath Clouds and Walking on Water.[1] That success prompted the State Government to provide the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) with a production investment fund,[2] which the AFF administers. $1,000,000 is made available over a two year period.[3] The Adelaide Film Festival Board selects projects, based on recommendations from the Festival Director, and the slate of pictures produced premieres at the event.[3][4]
To date, the Investment Fund has invested in over fifty projects, including features, documentaries, short films and new media projects. These projects have won almost one hundred and fifty awards.[3] Adelaide remains one of the few festivals worldwide with an investment fund.[4]
Purpose
The Adelaide Film Festival aims to support the projects of strong creative teams. It uses creative criteria such as bold and innovative storytelling, and also requires projects to contribute culturally and economically to South Australia.[5] These projects will bring development opportunities, branding opportunities, or partnerships with national and international organisations. They should have potential to raise the profile of South Australia.[3]
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a week-long festival of Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund films (from 7 to 13 April 2011). The MoMA week was a salute to the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, "a testament to its vision and success in realising some of the most unique, creative, interesting, challenging and entertaining Australian films of the recent past."[6][7]
The program included Look Both Ways, Ten Canoes, Samson and Delilah, Stunt Love, Boxing Day, Last Ride, My Year Without Sex and Mrs. Carey’s Concert.[6][7]
Hive Production Fund
In 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV Arts & Entertainment and the Adelaide Film Festival joined forces to create the Hive Production Fund. The lab aims to encourage art form cross-pollination – between practitioners, and between processes and creative approaches.[8]
Sundance Institute
Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund collaborates with Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program to identify potential opportunities for Australian artists and filmmakers to present new media work at future editions of the Sundance Film Festival.[9][10]
New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a dynamic initiative intended to identify and foster independent artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music and technology.
Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the emerging field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid projects to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances and films. It has a long presentation association of Australian work including Lynette Wallworth’s Evolution of Fearlessness and Coral: Rekindling Venus; Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man!; and Closer Productions’ My 52 Tuesdays project.
Past projects
| 2015 | 2013 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|
| ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― | ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― | |
| 52 Tuesdays [11] | Hail [12][13] | |
| The Boy Castaways [14][15] | Here I Am [12][16][13] | |
| Charlie's Country [11] [17] | Snowtown [12][18][13] | |
| Tracks [16] | ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― | |
| ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― | Life In Movement [12][13] | |
| All This Mayhem | Mrs Carey’s Concert [12][18][13] | |
| Tender [16] [14] | Shut Up Little Man! [12][13] | |
| The Darkside [11] | The Tall Man [12][13] | |
| ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― | ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― | |
| Muriel Matters! | Magic Harvest [13] | |
| I Want to Dance Better at Parties [14][16] | The Moment [13] | |
| Welcome to Iron Knob [19] | Stunt Love [12] | |
| Ringbalin: Breaking the Drought | The Palace [13][13] | |
| ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM ―――――― | ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM ―――――― | |
| My 52 Tuesdays | Danger 5 [12][13] | |
| ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― | ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― | |
| Daniel Crooks, Pan No.11 | Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight [12][13] | |
| Stranded | ||
| 2009 | 2007 | 2005 |
| ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― | ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― | ―――――― FEATURE FILMS ―――――― |
| Last Ride [20][21] | Boxing Day [22][23] | Look Both Ways [18][21] |
| Lucky Country [20] | Dr Plonk [22] | Ten Canoes [18][21] |
| My Tehran for Sale [20][21] | Lucky Miles [22] | ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― |
| My Year Without Sex [20][21] | The Home Song Stories [22][21] | I Told You I Was Ill: Spike Milligan |
| Samson and Delilah [18][20][21] | ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― | ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― |
| ―――――― DOCUMENTARY ―――――― | Forbidden Lie$ [22] | Azadi |
| A Good Man [20][21] | Kalaupapa – Heaven | Fritz Gets Rich |
| ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― | Words from the City [22] | Nascent |
| Necessary Games | ―――――― SHORT FILMS ―――――― | ―――――― CROSS PLATFORM ―――――― |
| Schadenfreude | Crocodile Dreaming | UsMob.com.au |
| Salt | Spike Up | |
| The Bully | Sweet and Sour | |
| The Cat Piano [21] | Swing | |
| ―――― ART AND THE MOVING IMAGE ―――― | What the Future Sounded Like | |
| Duality of Light [24][25] |
References
- ↑ The Age (28 November 2006) Peter Sellars' legacy finally bears fruit
- ↑ Senses of Cinema (1 May 2007) More Please: Report on the 3rd Biennial Adelaide Film Festival. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Adelaide Film Festival, About. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Boland, Michaela (27 February 2009). "Adelaide festival accents Australia". Variety. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ ScreenDaily (1 October, 2014) Australia: The festive spirit. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 IF.com (24 January 2011) MOMA to host Adelaide Film Festival Fund films. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 MoMA Adelaide Produces. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Mumbrella (25 February 2011) ABC TV and Adelaide Film Festival partner to create production fund. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Adelaide Film Festival (5 February 2015) SUNDANCE INSTITUTE AND ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL TO COLLABORATE. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ South Australian Film Corporation (5 February 2015) Sundance Institute and Adelaide Film Festival Collaborate to Support Australian New Media Artists. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Screen-Space (29 August 2013) SOUTHERN COMFORT: THE 2013 ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival (30 November 2010) Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund Announces Fourteen Projects For World Premiere At The 2011 Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10 13.11 13.12 IF.com (2 December 2010) BigPond Adelaide Film Festival reveals 14 projects for world premiere. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 InDaily (18 July 2013) Margaret and David’s new role with Adelaide Film Festival
- ↑ ToneDeaf (18 July 2013) Megan Washington And Tim Rogers Star In New Aussie Film. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 IF.com (18 July 2013) Adelaide Film Festival unveils premieres. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Bulbeck, Pip (17 April 2014). "Cannes: Australia Celebrates Double Feature Selections". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Australian Centre for the Moving Image (11 December 2014) ACMI announces broadcasting executive and former film festival director Katrina Sedgwick as new Director and CEO. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Bluebird Productions Welcome To Iron Knob. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Urban Cinephile (5 February 2009) ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – PREVIEW . Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 Arts Project Australia BigPond Adelaide Film Festival Launches Highlights. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 At The Movies Adelaide Film Festival Package. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Australian Screen Boxing Day (2007). Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Sydney Festival 2010 Lynette Wallworth. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ Forma Duality of Light. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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