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Opening October 10 with Hotel Mumbai stars Armie Hammer, Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey on the red carpet, the Adelaide Film Festival has now unveiled the full stunning line-up of guests for 2018.
Australians Wayne Blair, Benjamin Law, Justine Clarke, Warwick Thornton, Tess Haubrich, Erica Glynn, Margaret Pomeranz, David Stratton and Venice prize winners Jennifer Kent and Baykali Ganambarr will be joined by international guests including Jordan's Widad Shafakoj, Denmark's Clara Rugaard and Indonesia's Kamila Andini for the eleven day screen spectacular.
Jennifer Kent, director of Venice Special Jury Prize winner and ADL Film Fest FUND film The Nightingale will walk the red carpet at the Australian Premiere with Baykali Ganambarr, winner of the Venice Film Festival's Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent and former member of the internationally acclaimed Djuki Mala dance group, Jim Everett, associate producer and aboriginal consultant and producer Kristina Ceyton (The Babadook, Cargo).
Exciting young star of I Am Mother, Danish actress Clara Rugaard, best known for playing Juliet in Still Star-Crossed with writer/director Grant Sputore and producer Timothy White.
Multi-award winning filmmaker and humanitarian activist from Jordan, Widad Shafakoj will present the Australian Premiere of her doco, 17, which follows the Jordanian team's journey to the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup. Widad will also be part of a fascinating panel discussion on The Cinematic World of Arab Women with Arab Film Festival Australia Committee members Dr Mehal Krayem and Dr Paula Abood.
Recipients of the Don Dunstan Award, indigenous screen pioneer Freda Glynn, her children, Erica Glynn, Warwick Thornton, and grandchildren Tanith Glynn-Maloney and Dylan River will be celebrated with a suite of events including the World Premiere of She Who Must Be Loved (directed by Erica, produced by Tanith), the launch of KIN, a collection of essays which recognise the remarkable contribution to the industry of this talented family, and screenings of Warwick's 2003 debut Samson & Delilah, and Dylan's much-anticipated documentary Finke: There and Back.
The World Premiere of ABC/NETFLIX thriller Pine Gap will see stars Tess Haubrich (Alien: Covenant, Wolf Creek 2) and Sachin Joab (Lion) walk the red carpet with director Mat King and producers.
In Adelaide to present their films in the festival's Feature Fiction Competition in partnership with University of South Australia's School of Creative Industries is Australian mystery thriller Celeste director Ben Hackworth and Indonesian director Kamila Andini with her APSA and Berlinale Crystal Bear winning The Seen and Unseen. Also in competition, the festival welcomes the cast and crew of Australian feature Emu Runner including cast Wayne Blair, Rhae-Kye Waites, Mary Waites, Letisha Boney and Stella Carter with director/writer Imogen Thomas and producer Victor Evatt.
The Flinders University Feature Documentary Competition title Happy Sad Man will be presented by filmmaker Genevieve Bailey (I Am Eleven) and subjects from her compelling documentary.
Youtube sensation (10+ million subscribers) Ozzy Man will join filmmakers Jeremy Kelly-Bakker and Tom Phillips for the World Premiere of Lucy and DiC.
Comedian, writer and creator of The Family Law, Benjamin Law and showrunner Sophie Miller for the series 3 World Premiere on the big screen.
Star of Look Both Ways, Justine Clarke and producer Bridget Ikin will be in conversation with Margaret Pomeranz following a special screening of Sarah Watt's remarkable debut. Bridget Ikin will also World Premiere The Woman and the Car alongside director Kate Blackmore.
World premiere of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's (NFSA) digital restoration of South Australian classic starring Jack Thompson NFSA Restores: Sunday Too Far Away, presented by star Max Cullen, producer Matt Carroll, DOP Geoff Burton, and former SAFC executive Penny Chapman.
Max Cullen will also join director Thomas M Wright and writer Erik Jensen for a special screening of Acute Misfortune, a dramatised portrait of the late Australian artist Adam Cullen.
World Premieres of Adelaide Film Festival FUND works will be presented by:
Davi director Victoria Cocks and producer Anna Bardsley-Jones
A Stone's Throw director Luke Wissell and producer Ashleigh Knott
Running 62: The Arrival VR director Madeleine Parry, producers Molly O'Connor and Anton Andreacchio and subject Zibeon Fielding
Demonic producers Bonnie McBride and Anna Vincent
The Art of the Game filmmakers Matthew Bate, Trent Parke and Narelle Autio whose ADLFF FUND VR The Summation of Force is also screening in the Jumpgate VR Lounge
The Waiting Room director Molly Reynolds and producer Rolf de Heer
Guests presenting their Australian Showcase screenings include:
Dying to Live activist-documentarian Richard Todd (Frackman)
Love in the Time of Antidepressants filmmaker Paul Gallasch and producer Katrina Lucas
Melodrama/Random/Melbourne! director Matthew Victor Pastor and Senses of Cinema's Bill Mousoulis
Two-person artist collective Soda_Jerk will present their political revenge fable Terror Nullius
Producer Rita Walsh will present I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story
Producer/director Janine Hosking with producers Trish Lake and Katey Grusovin for The Eulogy
Short film and Made in SA filmmakers presenting their films include Lucy Campbell and Peter Ninos (The Big Nothing), Sara West (Mutt), David Muggleton (Freedom), Lucy Knox (An Act of Love), Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen (Small Town P.D.), Kiara Milera (Wild) and Steve Bakala Warramurra (Bakala). Also in Adelaide for the festival are filmmakers from the 2018 Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film & New Media Festival
The International Feature Fiction Jury filmmaker
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