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BOFA Film Festival to screen in Hobart

The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival will, in its second year, screen films in Hobart as well as Launceston. The film festival has also appointed film-makers Rowan Woods and Trish Lake as artistic directors.

The announcement:

The 2012 Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (BOFA) was launched today by Rebecca White MP, representing the Premier Lara Giddings.

The festival will run from November 8 to 11 at Launceston’s Inveresk precinct.

For the first time the Festival will also run in Hobart with screenings at the State Cinema and the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) cinema.

The Premier, Lara Giddings was unable to attend today’s launch, but said that the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival had become an important part of the Tasmanian screen industry.

“Not only does the Festival bring some of the world’s best films to Tasmania, it helps to create national and international exposure for home-grown Tasmanian talent,” she said.

“I would encourage Tasmanians to get involved in this year’s Festival.”

BOFA Festival Director Owen Tilbury said that the success of the 2011 BOFA Film Festival in Launceston had led to the move to extend the Festival to the State capital.

“This is the state’s only major annual film festival and we want it to be accessible to as many Tasmanian film-lovers as possible,” he said.

“BOFA 2012 in Launceston will be showing more than 30 of the world’s best features and documentaries.”

“We will simultaneously be screening the best of the BOFA feature films at the State Cinema in Hobart, and the best documentaries at MONA.”

BOFA 2011 attracted national attention and was named one of 2011’s Significant Seven Australian Film Festivals by national media and marketing magazine, mUmBRELLA.

Dubbed the “festival with a conscience”, BOFA showcases shorts, features and documentaries which use screen-based story telling to inspire positive change.

BOFA is not just about great films. The 2012 programme will include masterclasses with industry professionals from around Australia, a short film competition, exhibitions at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and a celebration of Tasmanian food and wine with parties at the QVMAG and Boag’s Brewery.

The Awards Dinner will be held on the Saturday night (November 10) at the Museum’s newly renovated Royal Park Art Gallery.

BOFA 2012 will also showcase the Tasmanian film industry, with awards for the best of Tasmania’s recent short films, documentaries and features.

Leading Australian film practitioners sign on as Artistic Directors

Mr. Tilbury also announced that two prominent Australian film industry figures, Rowan Woods and Trish Lake, have agreed to act as Artistic Directors for the 2012 BOFA Festival.

Rowan Woods is one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed directors, whose 20 year career spans feature films, television series and mini-series. He won the AFI Best Director Award with his debut feature The Boys, and went on to direct Little Fish with Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill, which was nominated for a record 13 AFI Awards.

Trish Lake is an independent producer and principal of Freshwater Pictures which specialises in feature films and cinema documentaries. She won the prestigious SPAA Feature Film Producer of the Year Award, for her feature film, Gettin’ Square, and is a past National President of the Screen Producer’s Association of Australia.

The Festival that makes a difference, with Make a Difference Day

Because BOFA is all about films that make a difference, BOFA will partner with The Rotary Club of Tamar Sunrise and Volunteering Tasmania to stage “Make a Difference Day” on Sunday 11th November, the last day of the 2012 festival.

The free open day will feature a farmer’s market of Tamar Valley produce and wine, a craft market and stalls explaining how people can make a difference, personally, locally and globally.

Source: Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival press release

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