Jimi Bani Andrew Knight Robert Connolly
The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (BOFA) to be held from November 8-11 in Launceston and Hobart, will bring many leading film industry players to Tasmania.
One of Australia’s finest indigenous actors will be a special guest at BOFA 2012. Torres Strait Islander Jimi Bani is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and is well known to Tasmanian audiences for his leading roles in the ABC series The Straits and Redfern Now and for his much praised performance as Eddie Mabo in the telemovie Mabo.
Jimi Bani will talk about the craft of acting at a free Actors’ Studio session with Sara Cooper of Cooper Screen Academy at the Festival Hub, QVMAG Museum, Inveresk at 2.30pm on Saturday, November 10.
Director and producer Robert Connolly will also be a special guest. One of the country’s leading directors, he is best known for Balibo, with Anthony LaPaglia, The Bank and Three Hands with David Wenham.
With John Maynard, he heads up Arenafilm, a production company dedicated to high quality cinema with a political focus and social themes.
Amongst their many credits is the award-winning The Boys, with David Wenham and Toni Collette, directed by BOFA Artistic Director Rowan Woods.
Andrew Knight is a leading Australian writer and producer with hundreds of hours of television and feature films amongst his credits.
He has received numerous AFI Awards, Logies and other industry awards for television programs After The Deluge, My Brother Jack, Fast Forward and Seachange and feature films Siam Sunset and Spotswood.
He will add his expertise and experience to the Low Budget Film Making workshop at the QVMAG Museum, Meeting Room at 2.30pm on Saturday, November 10.
Producer and founder of Looking Glass Pictures Mitzi Goldman will present her award winning documentary A Common Purpose, the dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marked South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy.
The story is told from the perspective of the trial’s defence lawyer, Andrea Durbach, who will join Mitzi Goldman for an audience Q & A after the screening.
Both women will also participate in the free Writers’ Forum to be held in the QVMAG Museum, Meeting Room at 4pm, on Sunday, November 11.
Logie winning filmmaker Simon Nasht will also be at BOFA 2012. His work has been seen around the world and he has produced and directed some of the ABC’s most successful documentaries of recent years including; The Bridge, Addicted to Money, and the Eureka Prize winning How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer.
He is currently producing The Hive, an interactive documentary comprising a serious game and documentary which seek to explore and test the hidden codes of cooperation: whether the collective ‘hive mind’ of humanity can collaborate for the greater good, or whether we will be doomed by self-interest.
He will present the New Screen Symposium, a free event exploring innovative uses of new technology, at the Festival Hub, QVMAG Museum, Inveresk at 12.30pm on Saturday.
Other celebrity guests will include the four speakers for the Big Picture Debate; comedian, author and broadcaster Catherine Deveny, campaign director for Getup!, Paul Oosting, leading film journalist Lynden Barber and the founder of the Melbourne feminist salon Cherchez la Femme, Karen Pickering.
The debate, on the subject ‘Social Media Does More Harm Than Good’, will be held at the QVMAG Museum, Meeting Room at 2.30pm on Sunday, November 11 and broadcast by both ABC and YouTube.
Festival patrons can meet the many celebrity guests at the BOFA Opening Night party on Thursday, November 8 and the BOFA Awards Dinner on Saturday- bookings through the web site www.bofa.com.au
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Full program details, tickets and Festival passes are available on the Festival web site www.bofa.com.au
THE TASMANIAN BREATH OF FRESH AIR FILM FESTIVAL 2012 PROGRAM:
• TWO DAYS IN NEW YORK (USA) Australian Premiere
• THE FIRST FAGIN (Australia)
• THE ANGELS’ SHARE (UK)
• SEMI COLIN (Australia) World Premiere
• THE HUNT (Denmark)
• UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (USA/South Africa)
• A COMMON PURPOSE (Australia)
• GIRL WALK//ALL DAY (USA)
• SIDE BY SIDE (USA)
• JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (USA/Japan)
• THE GIANTS (Belgium)
• AND IF WE ALL LIVE TOGETHER (France/Germany)
• LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (Denmark)
• SAVE YOUR LEGS (Australia)
• INSIDE OUT: ANTON CORBIJN (Netherlands/Germany/UK/Italy/Sweden)
• BONSAI PEOPLE- THE VISION OF MUHAMMAD YUNUS (USA/Bangladesh) Australian Premiere
• AFTER THE FACTORY (USA)
• YOU WILL BE MY SON (France)
• ROAD TO ROUBAIX (USA)
• SALLY: A VENTURING FORTH: A JAUNT (Australia)
• TO ROME WITH LOVE (USA)
• BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (USA)
• CHASING ICE (USA)
• CORAL REKINDLING VENUS (Australia)
• WAR WITCH (Canada)
• THEY FOUND A CAVE (Australia)
• ELECTRICK CHILDREN (USA)
BOFA FILM FESTIVAL: THURSDAY 8TH – SUNDAY 11TH NOVEMBER, 2012
In 2012, BOFA plans to showcase over the Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 November, international and Australian feature films/documentaries, short films, cinema related exhibitions (in partnership with Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery), master-classes and parties, but, as well, is adding a new Make a Difference Day (Sunday 11th November) incorporating a free community open day, screenings of a Make a Difference Day short film competition, features/documentaries, several master-classes run by industry experts, and writers’ festival speakers all on Make a Difference themes. The Make a Difference Day will be the culmination of the festival and will highlight the purpose of inspiring “positive change”.
