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The Plot Thickens at the 2010 St. George BIFF! Here is an overview of facts, figures and highlights from the 2010 Brisbane International Film Festival.

 

Festival Director

Richard Moore

 

Festival Dates

4 to 14 November 2010

 

Website

www.biff.com.au

 

Venues

Tribal Theatre (formerly Dendy)
346 George St
Brisbane

Palace Centro Cinemas
39 James St
Fortitude Valley

Palace Barracks Cinemas
61 Petrie Tce
Paddington

 

Statistics

  • The 19th annual BIFF
  • 104 feature films and 51 shorts programmed
  • 21 Australian and 3 world premieres
  • 33 sell-out sessions
  • 20,000 admissions and growing
  • 140 Volunteers
  • $1.8 million worth of media coverage

 

Festival Firsts

  • Screen Queensland’s Head of Screen Culture Richard Moore’s first year as Festival Director
  • First year that BIFF was held in the Spring
  • First year that programme and tickets were available on an iPhone app, designed by eFirst
  • First year to feature an dedicated Industry Day, focussing on 3D film technology and showcasing the work of Screen Queensland’s programme, The Writers’ Room

 

Programming Strands

For detailed information, download the festival programme here.

  • Animation
  • Around the World in 40 Films
  • Beatbox (music)
  • Documentaries
  • Industry Day
  • Local Heroes (Queensland cinema)
  • Shock Corridor (horror, thriller and cult)
  • Shorts
  • Soapbox (global issues)
  • Tribute to Jack Cardiff (retrospective)

 

Opening and Closing Films

Opening:

  • Cane Toads: The Conquest
    (Dir: Mark Lewis)

Closing:

  • Reign of Assassins
    (Dir: Chao-Bin Su, John Woo)

 

World Premieres

  • 6ft Hick: Notes from the Underground (Dir: Marty Moynahan)
  • I am You (Dir: Simone North)
  • Orchids: My Intersex Adventure (Dir: Phoebe Hart)

 

Australian Premieres

  • Born To Suffer
    (Dir: Miguel Albaladejo)
  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
    (Dir: Craig McCall)
  • Copacabana
    (Dir: Marc Fitoussi)
  • Dog Pound
    (Dir: Kim Chapiron)
  • Freakonomics (Dir: Heid Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock)
  • Google Baby
    (Dir: Zippi Brand Frank)
  • Inside Job
    (Charles Ferguson)
  • Jucy
    (Dir: Louise Alston)
  • Kaboom
    (Dir: Gregg Arraki)
  • Megamind
    (Dir: Tom McGrath)
  • Mother Teresa of Cats
    (Dir: Pawel Sala)
  • Pink Saris
    (Dir: Kim Longinotto)
  • Precious Life
    (Dir: Shlomi Eldar)
  • Reign of Assassins
    (Dir: Chao-Bin Su, John Woo)
  • Road To Nowhere
    (Dir: Mente Hellman)
  • Sisters of War
    (Dir: Brendan Maher)
  • The Socalled Movie
    (Dir: Garry Beitel)
  • Some Dogs Bite
    (Dir: Marc Munden)
  • Supersonic Sound: The Rebel Dread Documentary (Dir: Raphael Erichsen)
  • The Human Resources Manager
    (Dir: Eran Riklis)
  • We Are What We Are
    (Dir: Jorge Michel Grau)
  • William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    (Dir: Yoni Leyser)

 

Awards

 

CHAUVEL AWARD

  • Black Cockatoo - White Cockatoo
    (Dir. Alex Barnes, Dean Gibson)


 

A development investment award of $15,000 from Screen Queensland, judged by an independent industry panel for an emerging filmmaker on the basis of a pitch for a new project.

KINETONE AWARD

  • Pushbike
    (Dir. Mairi Cameron)

 

Sponsored by Brisbane City Council - cash prize of $2500 - judged by an industry panel

AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD

  • Futility
    (Dir. Wayne Bradford)

 

Cash prize for $2,500 - as judged by voters on the Brisbane Times website

SHOWTIME TOP TEN AWARDS

  1. Orchids: My Intersex Adventure
    (Dir: Phoebe Hart)
  2. Howl
    (Dir: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
  3. Blue Valentine
    (Dir: Derek Cianfrance)
  4. Strange Birds in Paradise
    (Dir: Charlie Hill-Smith)
  5. Jucy
    (Dir: Louise Alston)
  6. Gasland
    (Dir: Josh Fox)
  7. Sound of Mumbai
    (Dir: Sarah McCarthy)
  8. Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
    (Dir: Craig McCall)
  9. Mugabe and the White African
    (Dir: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson)
  10. Bill Cunningham: New York 
    (Dir: Richard Press)

 

Voted by the festival audience

 

Special Guests of the Festival

6ft Hick: Notes From the Underground

  • Marty Moynihan, Director
  • Dan Baebler, Actor/Band Member
  • Ben Corbett, Actor/Band Member
  • Fred Noonan, Actor/Band Member
  • Geoff Corbett, Actor/Band Member
  • Tony Giacca, Actor/Band Member

Cameraman

  • Craig McCall, Director

Cane Toads

  • Mark Lewis, Producer/Director
  • Tip Byrne, Actor
  • Peter Ravenscroft, Cane Toad Rangler
  • Glen Ingram, Actor
  • Gordon Grigg, Actor

Deep Blue Sea

  • Duncan Kennedy, Writer

El Monstro Del Mar

  • Stuart Simpson, Director

Gasland

  • Josh Fox, Director

Jucy

  • Louise Alston, Director
  • Kelly Chapman, Producer
  • Stephen Vagg, Writer
  • Francesca Gasteen, Actor
  • Cindy Nelson, Actor

I Am You

  • Simone North, Director

Industry Day

  • Mark Lewis, Director
  • Alaric McAusland
  • Todd Fellman, Producer

Little Sparrows

  • Camille Chen, Director

A Loving Friend

  • Kerry Negara, Director
  • John Doggett-Williams, Editor

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

  • Mark Hartley, Director
  • Veronica Fury, Producer
  • Andrew Leavold, Producer

Malcolm Le Grice: The Image of Time

  • Malcolm Le Grice, Filmmaker

Monsters

  • Gareth Edwards, Director
  • Paul Tonta, Distributor (Madman)

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure

  • Phoebe Hart, Producer/Director
  • Bonnie Hart, Cinematographer

Red Hill

  • Patrick Hughes, Director
  • Ryan Kwanten, Actor

The Red Shoes

  • Kevin Powell, Son of director

The Reef

  • Adrienne Pickering, Actor

Sisters of War

  • Andrew Wiseman, Distributor

The Sound of Mumbai

  • Sarah McCarthy, Director

Strange Birds in Paradise

  • Charlie Hill-Smith, Director

Uninhabited

  • Bill Bennett, Director

 

2010 Sponsors

BIFF is administered by Screen Queensland and through the generous support of its sponsors.

Naming Partner

  • St. George

Foundation Partners

  • Screen Queensland
  • Queensland Government

Major Government Partners

  • Screen Australia
  • Australian Governement
  • Brisbane City

Major Partners

  • TRANSLink
  • St. George
  • p4
  • GeneratorJSA
  • The Regent
  • brother
  • showtime movie channels
  • Cutting Edge
  • Brisbane City
  • Cartel Film Production
  • Hotel Urban

Supporters

  • deluxe Australia
  • Eagers Mazda
  • moda Events Portside
  • nvisage media international
  • Griffith University Griffith Film School
  • 1800 Reverse

Providers

  • mantle & cook
  • DeBortoli Wines
  • Campos
  • eFirst
  • JCDecaux
  • Crumplet
  • Aaron Tait Photography
  • Cooroy Mountain
  • AvantCard
  • Aesop
  • Coaster Kings
  • WordPlay

Media

  • Brisbane Times
  • Ten
  • 612 ABC Brisbane

Official Venue Partners

  • Palace Centro Films
  • Tribal Theatre
 

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