Cockatoo Island Film Festival announces event line up
Sydney’s newest film event, the Cockatoo Island Film Festival, today launched its inaugural feature film and documentary program and In Competition categories and announced of a Peter Weir masterclass.
The film festival’s awards categories will be Best Feature, Jury Prize for Artistic Vision, Best Documentary, Best Australian Short, Young Film-maker of the Year and the NSW Mining Young Indigenous Documentary Fellowship worth $20,000.
Allanah Zitserman, co-director of the Cockatoo Island event, said: “This has been in the planning stages for almost two years and we’re excited to announce such a diverse and high-quality list of feature films that will compete for the Best Feature Film Award.
Really looking forward to this, love the movies and love the island so nice to do/see both at the same time
This is going to be one hell of an event. The launch today at Cinema Paris presented a summary of the films in and out of competition and some of other highlights. Crowd or around 250 turned out for the event with lots of media coverage.
Check out the website – http://www.cockatoofilm.com.au
I wish the creation of this newest of international film festivals well. These film choices are g reat. If anyone of them were human’s none would bu wusses. They would be the cool kids in the neighborhood.
So that is who Peter Weir is, for those who came in yesterday.