The BigPond Adelaide Film Festival is delighted to announce that the 2013 festival will take place from 10 – 20 October 2013. This will be a permanent date change for the festival, which has until now run from late February to early March.
BigPond Adelaide Film Festival Chair Cheryl Bart said, "We are greatly looking forward to moving to our new home in the cultural calendar. October offers our festival exciting new opportunities for partnerships and programs that will further enhance the very special character of the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival." As well as offering festival participants some springtime weather for their post-screening debates and discussions, the new October dates are an excellent fit with what is happening in the film world both nationally and internationally. The shift will guarantee that the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival continues to support and present new Australian cinema, presents the most ground-breaking films from across the globe and brings the most interesting filmmakers and artists to Adelaide.
BAFF’s new springtime slot will coincide with the 2013 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, and the two festivals are committed to working together to identify opportunities for crossover guests and events. This partnership will add new depth to the particular creative and intellectual flair that BAFF is known for.
Premier Mike Rann said "The Adelaide Film Festival was originally scheduled to run in March in every second year to fill the gap left by the biennial Adelaide Festival of Arts.
"However, from 2013 the Adelaide Festival of Arts, like the Fringe and WOMADelaide, will become an annual event, so it made sense to schedule the Film Festival at a different time of the year.
"I am delighted our film festival – the first in Australia to provide seed funding for new film productions – will be held during the period of the Festival of Ideas.
"These two festivals have the potential to support each other in new and innovative ways and I look forward to seeing just how creatively they work together," MrRann said.
BAFF has also embarked on a purposeful partnership strategy, which will see it producing or participating in a number of significant interim events. Initially, BAFF is delighted to be working with the Art Gallery of South Australia to present BRITFILM the best of British filmmaking from the last decade. The program, specially curated by BAFF Festival Director Katrina Sedgwick, will be an exclusive addition to Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now, the largest exhibition of British contemporary art shown in over a decade in Australia.
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