The Tasmanian eco Film Festival is officially launching its 2016 program on Thursday 6th November.
Held over four days from the 16 – 20 of November, this year’s festival promises to be even more engaging and diverse than the highly successful inaugural festival last year.
The TeFF is an eco-themed, apolitical film festival offering a combination of high-art eco films and VIP events held at various venues across Hobart.
“TeFF is a contemporary eco film festival,” states Festival Director Kyia Clayton. “It seeks to engage, inform, inspire and include.”
Over four days, festival-goers will be treated to nine film screenings at the State Cinema – of which five are Australian premiere screenings – as well as an Eco Ocean Health Panel at IMAS and a Virtual Reality film-event, Crystal Reef.
The Crystal Reef screenings, held at TMAG, will be shown throughout the duration of the festival and will be assisted by VR engineer and content designer Cody Karutz from Stanford University.
This year, TeFF is also pleased to be offering master class workshops covering VR filmmaking, documentary, sound, funding and scriptwriting., “we wanted to reach out to Tasmanian filmmakers and utilize the expertise of our visiting guests.” Kyia Clayton said.
The TeFF has attracted a stellar list of VIPs with 16 visiting guests travelling to attend the festival. Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Collee, best known for his work on Master and Commander and Happy Feet will be attending, as well as Emmy-award winning Director Ian McCluskey, UK plankton scientist Dr. Richard Kirby, and home-grown eco-warrior and host of Gardening Australia, Costa Georgiadis.
The 2016 festival will culminate with the highly anticipated closing night eco-dinner, to be held this year at Room for a Pony headed-up by visiting guest chef Matt Stone.
Sophie
