Adelaide Film Festival announces new dates in 2013
As a move to align with the now annual Adelaide Festival of Ideas, the bi-annual BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will take place from 10-20 October 2013.
After a successful year this year in March, festival chair Cheryl Bart said “We are greatly looking forward to moving to our new home in the cultural calendar. October offers our festival exciting new opportunities for partnerships and programs that will further enhance the very special character of the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival.”
By combining the two festivals, it will give both an opportunity to cross promote as well as have crossover guests and events.
Premier Mike Rann said, “I am delighted our film festival – the first in Australia to provide seed funding for new film productions – will be held during the period of the Festival of Ideas. These two festivals have the potential to support each other in new and innovative ways and I look forward to seeing just how creatively they work together.”
Leading up to BAFF, the festival will host a range of interim events, the first being Britfilm, in partnership with the Art Gallery of South Australia, presenting the best of British film of the last decade, a program curated by BAFF director, Katrina Sedgwick. It will run alongside Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now – the largest exhibition of British contemporary art shown in over a decade in Australia.
