Cannes snubs Australian films
No Australian features have been selected for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which sees familiar names such as Ridley Scott, Mike Leigh, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Abbas Kiarostami and Takeshi Kitano in the official competition.
A number of Australian features, including the French co-production The Tree, were submitted for consideration but were not chosen for the Official competition / Un certain regard categories.
There might still be hope for Australian filmmakers; the short film category is yet to be announced, and Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett might be eligible for the acting awards for Robin Hood, which will be the festival’s opening night film.
These are the features that will screen at Cannes 2010:
Yeh, it’s the ‘Imperial Clown Convention’ dont’cha know?!!
It’s a French Film Festival which only showcases the movies of America, Japan, U.K.,
Germany, Iran and Italy. All the Godbothering Imperialist s#$t-holes, er I mean Important Countries.
Why shoudn’t Cannes snub Oz films – local audiences do?
Screen Writer.
Wrong way round.
Oz films snub local audiences.
Despite this disappointing news, Australian feature film “Birthday” by writer/director J.Harkness has been Officially Selected for the 2010 Cannes Independent Film Festival also taking place during the Marche du Film. The mission of the Cannes Independent Film Festival is to provide truly independent films an opportunity to be screened during the world’s most prestigious film gathering and the biggest International Film Market. “Birthday” is currently scheduled to screen at the CIFF Villa on May 15th at 7pm where writer/director J.Harkness as well as lead cast members Natalie Eleftheriadis, Ra Chapman and Travis McMahon will be in attendance. Cannes will be “Birthday’s” European premiere having already wowed audiences in the U.S at the Anchorage International Film Festival in December 2009. Keep and eye out, “Birthday” is slated for a mid year release in cinemas nationwide. Visit http://www.birthdaythefilm.com for more information.
I’m going to disagree with the earlier sentiment that “Oz films snub local audiences.”
It should read “Oz films snub audiences”.
@ Correction.
True – borders on surreal whats currently happening in our alleged commercial sector. Suggest you undertake a quick count of how many bureaucratic agencies there are – both state & federal + ancillary ones? Then count how many film schools & uni’s etc who are making a quid out of this area? Be amazed how many are employed – then imagine how many more could be if we actually has a successful viable industry? One that made commercially successful features.
Can handle rejection – comes with the territory – stupidity – hypocrisy & lack of simple common sense among our so called peers – now thats something else.