Antenna Documentary Film Festival Beings Soon
Antenna Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s lineup of respected local and international guests. Featuring award-winning filmmakers and industry experts including Vice President of Artist Programs at Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) Ryan Harrington, who will feature at the festival as both a member of the International Competition jury and as part of the festival’s DocTalk event.
The festival opens on Tuesday 14th October with Bugarach by multi-award winning Spanish director, Ventura Durall, who is a guest of the festival together with emerging Spanish filmmaker Jordi Morato who will present his debut feature The Creator of the Jungle (“Sobre la marxa”) which has screened at Rotterdam, Hot Docs, BFI and Vision De Réel.
Cutting-Edge filmmakers Sam Smail, Nick Watson and Nathan Penlington will also attend the festival, bringing with them for the first time to Australia their unique Choose Your Own Documentary – a live interactive documentary, described by The Independant as ”Deeply nostalgic and Dazzingly modern”, as a not-to-be-missed program highlight!
Sam Cutler, the former band manger of the Rolling Stones will also attend this year festival and will hold a Q&A after the screening of the classic Maysles Brothers documentary, Gimme Shelter.
Antenna also showcases some of the very best in Australian Documentary. Judy Rymer will attend the festival and hold a Q&A after the World Premiere of her film I Will Not Be Silenced, which charts the story of an Australian woman’s horrific gang rape and her heroic fight for justice in Kenya. Christopher Houghton, director of Sons & Mothers and Anne Tsoulis, director of the These Heathen Dreams, will also hold Q&A’s after the screenings of their films.
Antenna Festival will hold a tribute to renowned Australian filmmaker Pat Fiske, with a screening of her seminal documentary Rocking The Foundations and will hold a special Q&A after the screening.
Other international guests at Antenna, include Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at Tribeca Film Institute and Jeffery Winter, Executive Director of The Film Collaborative. Both join Ryan Harrington and other leading industry figures at Antenna’s DocTalk – which provides an exclusive opportunity to gain juicy insiders’ Secrets of the documentary world.