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Encyclopedia > Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is a non-competitive film festival that started in 1954. The festival runs for two weeks each year in June and showcasing Australian, international and alternative films. A film festival is a mostly annual festival in one or more movie theaters with a special program showcasing many films. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The first festival opened on June 11, 1954 and screened in four halls at Sydney University over four days. Attendance was at full capacity with 1,200 tickets sold at one guinea each. The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia, and it is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. ...


The festival remained at Sydney University until 1968, at which time it moved to the Wintergarden in Rose Bay. In 1974 it moved to its current main venue, the historic State Theatre in the centre of Sydney. Rose Bay is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, located five kilometers to the east of the central business district of Sydney. ... The State Theatre in Košice, Slovakia The State Theatre (Slovak: Štátne divadlo) is situated in the centre of Košice, Slovakia. ... Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ...


Members of the audience mostly purchase a subscription to the full two weeks but the number of single session tickets has been increasing since introduced in 2001.


Strict guidelines in relation to previous screenings of films means that audiences see films that haven't had general release. An audience award is nominated at the end of the festival and the Dendy short film awards occurs in the first day of the festival, with the winners announced at the opening night of the SFF.


References

  • Senses of Cinema. Looking Back, Looking Forward: the Sydney Film Festival at 50. URL accessed on April 25, 2005

April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • Official Site
  • Unofficial site
  • Sydney Film Festival Background and Controversies
  • Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (235 words)
The festival runs for two weeks each year in June and showcasing Australian, international and alternative films.
The festival remained at Sydney University until 1968, at which time it moved to the Wintergarden in Rose Bay.
An audience award is nominated at the end of the festival and the Dendy short film awards occurs in the first day of the festival, with the winners announced at the opening night of the SFF.
Brisbane International Film Festival (1943 words)
Filmed in locations near Brisbane with a local crew and support from the Queensland Government's film funding arm, the Pacific Film and Television Commission, Walk the Talk is a fl comedy about an aspiring but misguided talent agent who sets up business using money from his paraplegic girlfriend's compensation payment.
The film had opened the Sydney Film Festival in June; but the version which screened there was not the final cut.
The film follows the effect of a terrible crime on a rather ineffectual police officer assigned to the case.
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