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We're delighted to be bringing 2 film events to the Northern Rivers over the next couple of months - a regional premiere screening of Drown and a special In Conversation with Rolf de Heer, plus we have announced the filmmakers for Createability, the French Film Festival is coming to Byron this month and Flickerfest Director, Bronwyn Kidd is running a free workshop at SAE. 

DROWN - Regional Film Premiere

6.30pm, 22nd April 2015
Events Cinemas Lismore


Filmmaker Dean Francis and local identity Tobin Saunders in conversation following the screening.

 
With sell out sessions at the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Screenworks are looking forward to a local audience enjoying a regional premiere screening. Filmmaker Dean Francis will join local identity Tobin Saunders at the conclusion of the screening to discuss the themes explored in the film as well as some of the unique challenges they faced in the making of the film...more

An evening with ROLF DE HEER
6.30PM, 12th May 2015
Byron Community Centre


In conversation with RHODA ROBERTS, followed by a screening of CHARLIE'S COUNTRY

 
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Multi award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian Filmmaker Rolf de Heer will be the special guest speaker at a Screenworks event at the Byron Bay Community Centre on May 12.  He joins Indigenous journalist and arts professional Rhoda Roberts in conversation prior to a screening of his most recent film Charlie’s Country...more

CREATEABILITY FILMMAKERS ANNOUNCED

Following a difficult selection process from an impressive range of submissions to Screenworks’ Createability project, 3 Northern Rivers Producer / Director teams have been selected to each produce a short documentary film profiling the work and life of artists with disability living and creating in the region.  Congratulations to...more

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
April 9 - 14

Palace Cinemas Byron Bay

Those two legends of Australian cinema, Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, have brought their distinctive ‘je ne sais quoi’ to their roles as patrons of this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival, which opens at Palace Cinema on April 9. Margaret and David were given ‘carte blanche’ to select their favourite French films to screen at the festival...more

FILM FESTIVAL WORKSHOP
4pm - 6pm, 8th April 2015
SAE Institute Byron Bay

Flickerfest Director Brownyn Kidd will deliver a free two-hour Filmmaking Masterclass at the SAE Creative Media Institute next Wednesday, 8 April, for aspiring and current filmmakers from the Northern Rivers...more
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