The Tale of Ruby Rose …
Brett and Wendy Whiteley …
The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (BOFA) has released the programme for its 2018 Festival, to be held May 17-20 at the Village Cinemas in Launceston.
BOFA 2018 will offer film lovers 30 features and documentaries from 13 different countries, including Award-winners from some of the world’s great film festivals – Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Venice and London.
Opening night film will be one of the hits from the Cannes Festival, the French romantic comedy Let the Sunshine In, with Juliette Binoche.
Special Festival guests include Wendy Whiteley, for the screening of Whiteley, a documentary covering the extraordinary life, times and art of her late husband, the Australian painter Brett Whiteley, and the Sydney-based food waste warrior Ronnie Kahn, founder of OzHarvest, for the screening of Food Fighter, the story of her worldwide crusade against food waste.
The low budget indie comedy That’s Not Me was an audience favourite at the Sydney Film Festival and the director Gregory Erdstein and star Alice Foulcher will visit Launceston for the screening and to present a free workshop on low budget production for aspiring Tasmanian film makers.
Australian film maker Martin Simpson will be at BOFA to present his first feature film Indigo Lake and will also give a free workshop called From Concept to Screen, talking about the process of bringing a cinematic idea to reality.
A special feature of this year’s Festival will be a retrospective to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tasmanian made classic The Story of Ruby Rose. Director Roger Scholes and star Chris Haywood will be in Launceston for the anniversary showing. One of Australia’s best known actors, Chris Haywood will also present a free masterclass on An Actor’s Life.
Other BOFA Festival highlights include The Square, a hilarious satire of the art world which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and the Oscar nominated documentary Faces, Places, from legendary New Wave film maker Agnès Varda.
The British film Edie will have its Australian premiere at BOFA, with a career best performance from Sheila Hancock as a woman who takes on an extraordinary adventure after the death of her controlling husband.
The Australian documentary MAMIL (Middle Aged Men In Lycra) will close the Festival with an intimate look at the obsession, the camaraderie and the tribal elements of these cycling MAMILs around the globe.
Festival Director Owen Tilbury believes that this is the best programme in BOFA’s eight year history.
“Our move this year to the Village Cinemas, with its DCP projection, has given us access to a much wider range of films from around the world – we really have been able to pick the best of the best,” he said.
BOFA 2018 will run from May 17-20 at the Village Cinemas Launceston. The full program is available on the Festival web site www.breath-of-fresh-air.com.au
Bookings open at the Village Cinemas on Friday 23 March.
Owen Tilbury, Director BOFA
