Sydney Film Festival and Princess Cruises bring a spectacular program of world class cinema to the second Travelling Film Festival at Sea. The Festival will screen onboard Dawn Princess as she departs from Sydney to Tasmania on 1-6 November, 2016 with special guest, award-winning stage and screen director and actor Jeremy Sims onboard.
Sims will present the program which includes his critically acclaimed film Last Cab to Darwin (SFF 2015); an adaptation of Sim’s hit play based on a true story of a cancer stricken cabbie, played by national treasure Michael Caton. Passengers will join Sims for a Q&A after his screening.
A program of seven films (five features and two documentaries) has been announced today, selected by Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. The program includes Neil Armfield’s multi-award winning film Holding the Man, Gillian Armstrong’s Women He’s Undressed, international sensation Phoenix starring Nina Hoss, Bill Condon’s Mr Holmes starring Sir Ian McKellen, delightful family comedy The Crow’s Egg, and Iris from legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles about flamboyant fashion icon Iris Apfel.
Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley said, “The Festival has an incredibly strong program of films to be screened onboard Dawn Princess. Guests will not only enjoy their trip to Tasmania, but the program will also take them on a trip across Australia and around the world with these diverse Festival favourite films.”
Princess Cruises Vice President, Australia & New Zealand, Stuart Allison said, “Sydney Film Festival and Princess Cruises are delighted to bring the Travelling Film Festival at Sea onboard Dawn Princess for its second year running. Our guests thoroughly enjoyed the movie experience and, we are equally thrilled to have Australian screen luminary Jeremy Sims joining us onboard.”
The feature-length films include:
• Holding the Man, a compelling Australian drama adapted from Australian playwright Tommy Murphy’s stage production and directed by Australian theatre veteran Neil Armfield, starring Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Sarah Snook, Guy Pearce and Anthony LaPaglia;
• Iris, a documentary by the late great Albert Maysles tells the tale of flamboyant New York fashionista Iris Apfel, who shares her experiences including working for the White House for nine presidents and creating replicas of century-old fabrics;
• Last Cab to Darwin, based on the true story of cab driver Rex Bell (Michael Caton), a cab driver from Broken Hill who doesn’t have long to live, as he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin to visit Dr Nicole Farmer (Jacki Weaver), in a bid to die on his own terms;
• Mr Holmes, starring Sir Ian McKellen, follows a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes obsessing over his last unsolved case. The film premiered in Australia last year at the Sydney Film Festival;
• Phoenix, the multiple award winning sixth collaboration between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss (Barbara), is a drama about a concentration-camp survivor returning to Berlin to reclaim her life;
• The Crow’s Egg, a funny, charming family-friendly South Indian Tamil/ Indian film by M. Manikandan, tells the tale of two mischievous and resourceful brothers from a Chennai slum who become determined to taste pizza for the very first time;
• Women He’s Undressed, the acclaimed Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong’s documentary which shares the untold story of Academy Award-winning Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly.
The Travelling Film Festival is Australia’s longest running travelling film festival. The Festival provides audiences in regional areas the opportunity to see world-class Australian and international films that they may not otherwise have had the opportunity to see on the big screen.
Further information on the cruise can be found here: http://www.princess.com/find/cruiseDetails.do?voyageCode=d621
TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL VISITS…
NT Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine QLD Bundaberg, Cairns, Mackay, Toowoomba, Townsville NSW Dubbo, Huskisson, Nambucca Heads, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Rockhampton, Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong, Ulladulla, New Zealand (at sea) and Tasmania (at sea).
www.sff.org.au
Amber Forrest-Bisley
