A Cautionary Tail and The Captain among Flickerfest’s World Premieres
A Cautionary Tail
Forty-seven Australian short films have been selected in the forthcoming Flickerfest across five programs.
The selection includes 13 world premieres including Nash Edgerton and Spencer Susser’s The Captain, which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival last week, and A Cautionary Tail, an animation directed by Simon Rippingale and written by Erica Harrison, and starring Cate Blanchett and David Wenham.
Across the five local programs there are also four Australian premieres and 18 NSW premieres.
The selection also includes past Sydney and Melbourne International Film Festival picks Dave’s Dead, written by Luke Ryan and directed by Alethea Jones, who won Flickerfest’s People’s Choice Award in 2011 and Tropfest in 2012; Yardbird, written by Julius Avery and directed by Michael Spiccia, which went to Cannes Film Festival and won at Sydney Film Festival, and Dumpy Goes to the Big Smoke, written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes.
The Best Australian Film Award, is now also now officially accredited for the Oscars, joining the festival’s Best Film and Best Animation categories in the international section.
The local productions join 38 international films in the Official International Competition while 14 films are in the Official Documentary Competition, and 17 films carrying environmental themes will screen in the GreenFlicks competition.
The festival runs from Friday 11-20 January in the Bondi Pavilion.
