2011 BIFF Fact Sheet | Print |

Here is an overview of facts, figures and highlights from the 2011 Brisbane
International  Film Festival.

Festival Director

Richard Moore

 

Festival Dates

3 to 13 November 2011

 

 Website

http://www.biff.com.au/

 

Venues

Tribal Theatre (formerly Dendy)
346 George St
Brisbane

Palace Centro Cinemas
39 James St
Fortitude Valley

 

State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place
South Bank

BIFF Drive-in Cinema
297 MacArthur Avenue
Northshore Hamilton


Palace Barracks Cinemas
61 Petrie Tce
Paddington

 

Statistics

  • The 20th annual BIFF
  • 135 feature films and 36 shorts programmed
  • 50 Australian and 3 world premieres
  • 38 sell-out sessions
  • 22,600 admissions and growing
  • 245 Volunteers

 

Programming Strands

For detailed information, download the festival programme here.

  • World Cinema
  • Family Films
  • La Mirada @ BIFF
  • Fantastic Fest @ BIFF
  • Critic's Week @ BIFF
  • Local Heroes
  • Shorts
  • Tribute to Arthur Penn
  • Filmmakers in Focus
  • BIFFDOCS
  • Let's Go Surfing

 

Special Events

  • Opening night
  • Closing night
  • Drive-in to BIFF
  • Bubbles @ BIFF
  • Ta Ta to Tribal
  • Courier Mail Curtain Raisers
  • Industry Day
  • Classical Notes
  • Sushi Typhoon
  • Queensland New Filmmakers Awards

 

Opening and Closing Films

Opening:

  • Attack the Block (DirL Joe Cornish)

Closing

  • The Skin I Live In (Dir: Pedro Almodovar)

 

World Premieres

  • Clouds Have Stories: The Arts of the Torres Strait Islands (Australia)
  • Prelude (Australia)
  • The Trouble with St Mary's (Australia)

 

Australian Premieres

  • Arirang (South Korea)
  • Attack the Block (UK)
  • Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (Ireland)
  • Bitter Taste of Freedom (USA, Russia)
  • Boatload of Wild Irishmen (Ireland)
  • Burnt by the Sun 3 (Russia)
  • ...But Film Is My Mistress (Sweden)
  • Cinema Komunisto (Serbia/Montenegro)
  • Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (USA)
  • Corridor, The (Canada)
  • Crawl (Australia)
  • A Dangerous Method (UK/France/Germany/Canada/Switzerland
  • Dancing with Dictators (Australia)
  • Drive-In Delerium Presents Trailerpalooza (Australia)
  • The Drunkard (Hong Kong)
  • Fantome Island (Australia)
  • 50 Best Kills (USA)
  • Goodbye, First Love (France/Germany)
  • The Human Centipede 2 (Netherlands/UK/USA)
  • I Wish (Japan)
  • In the Company of Eric Rohmer (France)
  • La Voz Dormida (Spain)
  •  Las Acacias (Argentina/Spain)
  • Let the Bullets Fly (China)
  • Like Crazy (USA)
  • The Look (France)
  • Manborg (Canada)
  • My Little Princess (France)
  • No More Fear (Tunisea)
  • On Borrowed Time (Australia)
  • The FP (USA)
  • The Orator (New Zealand/Samoa)
  • Penumbra (Argentina)
  • Policeman (Israel)
  • Revenge: A Love Story (Hong Kong)
  • Siberie (France)
  • The Skin I Live In (Spain)
  • Sons of Perdition (USA)
  • Talahina Sky: The Story of Kings of Keon (USA)
  • This Is Not A Film (Iran)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (UK/France)
  • Tony CurtisL Driven to Stardomn (USA)
  • Uma Lulik (East Timor)
  • Upside Down: The Creation Record Story (UK)
  • We Who Have Lived La Dolce Vita (Italy/France)
  • You've Been Trumped (USA)
  • The Zero Hour (Venezuela)

 

Awards

BIFFDOCS

  • Arirang

 

Voted by the BIFFDOCS jury (David Tiley, Mark Lewis, Phoebe Hart, Richard Moore 

SHOWTIME TOP TEN AWARDS

  1. The Orator
  2. The Tall Man
  3. Uma Lulik
  4. Attack the Block
  5. The Curse of the Gothic Symphony
  6. Restless
  7. Bonnie and Clyde
  8. The Human Centipede 2
  9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  10. Silents of the Surf

 

Voted by the festival audience 

QUEENSLAND NEW FILMMAKERS AWARDS

  • Village Roadshow Studios Kinetone Award for Best Overall Film: True Love - Simon Toy
  • QUT Creative Industries Best Overall Tertiary Production Award: Living With Georgina - Felicity-Rose Priddle
  • JMC Academy Best Overall Secondary Production Award: Heist - Justin Gowdie
  • Liquid Animation Best Animation Award: Gus - Andrew Martin
  • Brisbane City Council Best Drama Award: True Love - Simon Toy
  • Universityy of Southern Queensland Best Documentary Award: Intimate Details - Rachel Williams
  • Griffith Film School Best Director Award: Living With Georgia - Tanika Pratt
  • Kodak/Village Roadshow Digital Film Laboratory Best Cinematography Award: The Forgotten Men - Jack Wareham
  • THE postWORKS Best Editing Award: True Love - Simon Toy
  • QPIX Best Production Design Award: The Last Tango in Sunnybank - Billy Shannon, Rosetta Cook and John Haag
  • The Post Lounge Best Sound Award: True Love - Simon Toy
  • International Film College Original Screen Music Award: The Forgotten Men - Cameron McKenzie and Phil Slade.
  • AFTRS Best Emerging Talent Award: Blood - Kaylee Burgess

 

Selected by an industry judging panel (John Brigden, Paddy McDonald, Elizabeth Symes, Felicity Blake, Helen Yeates and Ruari Elkington)

CHAUVEL AWARD

  • The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
    Wickham Park Productions (Bec Dakin, Karl Mather and Zenon Kohler)

* The Chauvel Award is an initiative designed to encourage more literary adaptations developed for the screen, with the $40,000 reward

 

 

 

Special Guests of the Festival

Fantome Island

  • Joe Eggmolesse - Talent
  • Sean Gilligan - Director/Producer
  • Dr Hugo Ree (local leprologist)

On Borrowed Time

  • David Bradbury, Director

The Curse of the Gothic Symphony

  • Veronica Fury - Producer

Prelude

  • Catherina Lee - Talent

The Drunkard

  • Freddie Wong - Director

Sushi Typhoon - Helldriver

  • Marc Walkow, Yoshihro Nishimura - Director

Going Vertical

  • Robert Raymod - Producer
  • Bob McTavish

Dogs Run Free and Searching for Michael Peterson

  • Gil Scrine - Director (Dogs Run Free)

Surfin' Saturday

  • Peter Howe - Musician (Morning of the Earth soundtrack)
  • Tim Gaze - Musician (lead guitarist of prog rock band Tamam Shud)

X

  • John Hewitt - Director/Writer/Producer
  • Lizette Atkins - Producer

First Love

  • Fran Derham and Clare Plueckhahn - Producers

50 Best Kills and Mystery Film

  • Lars Nilsen - Fantastic Fest Programmer

 

Position Among the Stars and Masterclass

  • Leonard Retel Helmrich - Director

I'm Not Dead Yet

  • Chad Morgan - Talent

Drive in Delirium Trailorpalooza

  • Mark Hartley - Director

The Tall Man

  • Darren Dale - Producer
  • Tony Koch - Talent
  • Paula Morreau - Talent
  • Murrandoo Yanner - Talent

An Afternoon with Albie Thoms

  • Albie Thoms - Director

See How They Fall and Las Acacias

  • Charles Tesson - Film Critic

My America

  • Peter Hegedus - Director

The Trouble With St Mary's

  • Peter Kennedy - Talent
  • Peter Hegedus - Director
  • Veronica Fury - Producer

The Clouds Have Stories:
The Art of the Torres Strait Islands

  • Daniel Marsden - Director

Uma Lulik

  • Victor de Sousa - Director
  • Joao Ferro and David Palazon - Producers

The Orator

  • Tusi Tamasese - Director

Puberty Blues

  • Jeff Row - Actor

Inuk

  • Mark Buriot - Producer
  • Ole-Jorgen Hammeken - Actor
  • 4 Teenages - Talent
  • Rebecca Jorgensen - Actor
  • Inunnguaq Jerimiassen - Actor

Dancing With Dictators

  • Ross Dunkley - Talent
  • Helen Barrow - Producer
  • Hugh Piper - Director

Outback Fight Club

  • Red and Sandi Brophy - Talent
  • Joe 'Butterbean' Sweeney - Talent
  • Paul Scott - Director

 

Black and White and Sex

  • John Winter - Director

 

BIFFDOCS Jurors:

David Tiley, Mark Lewis, Phoebe Hart, Richard Moore

 

 

 

2011 Sponsors

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

Government Partners

  • Screen Queensland
  • Queensland Government
  • Screen Australia
  • Australian Government
  • Brisbane City

Festival Partners

  • Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week
  • Fantastic Fest
  • La Mirada Film Festival

Platinum Partners

  • JSAcreative
  • Network Ten

Gold Partners

  • Palace Cinemas

Silver Partners

  • The Regent
  • Showtime Movie Channels
  • De Bortoli Wines
  • Brisbane Times
  • Audi
  • Urban Land Development Authority
  • Australand
  • 612ABC Brisbane

Bronze Partners

  • Campos Coffee
  • Crumpler
  • Cutting Edge
  • The Post Lounge
  • Avant Card
  • State Library of Queensland
  • Tribal Theatre
  • Hilton Brisbane
  • Aesop
  • The Courier Mail
  • Urban Hotel
  • Laruche Bar and Supperclub
  • Zen Catering
  • eFirst
  • Myer Centre Car Park
  • Oaks Hotels and Resorts
  • Griffith Film School
  • Word/play
  • Reel Moving Cinema
  • Vintage Photobooths
  • Coaster Kings
  • Australian FIlm Television and Radio School

QNFA Partners

  • Village Roadshow Studios
  • QUT Creative Industries
  • JMC Academy
  • Liquid Animation
  • Brisbane City Council
  • University of Southern Queensland
  • Griffith Film School
  • Kodak
  • Village Roadshow Digital Film Laboratory
  • THE postWORKS
  • QPIX
  • The Post Lounge
  • International Film College
  • Australian Film Television and Radio School
 

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