See the films nominated for the 2011 South Australian Screen Awards
Screening Program: Friday 6 – Sunday 8 May 2011
SASA Awards Gala Event: Friday 13 May 2011
Full program and screening details: www.mercurycinema.org.au
Tickets: One session: $15 Full | $12 Concession/Fringe Benefits | $7.50 Children 12 and Under
SASA Mini-Festival Pass (Any five sessions): $50 Full | $40 Concession/Fringe Benefits
SASA Festival Pass (All session exc Gala): $80 Full | $70 Concession/Fringe Benefits
Tickets available on the phone: 8410 1934 or at the door
See the future of film! The Mercury, Adelaide’s home of cutting edge screen culture, will screen 12 sessions of films nominated for the 2011 South Australian Screen Awards, over one action packed weekend. Come and see drama, comedy, documentary, animation, music video and non-narrative short and feature films made by the next generation of SA filmmakers.
Now in its 12th year as the state’s premier screen awards, the SASAs reward excellence and outstanding achievement from South Australian-based filmmakers, providing an exciting platform for local screen practitioners to showcase their work.
Highlights from the drama sessions include Storm Ashwood’s Paper Planes, an ambitious short film set in Africa and shot in Callington and Port Adelaide with a cast of Africans living in South Australia; Adelaide actress Chantel Contouri’s (The Sullivans, Number 96) return to the screen after more than a decade in Unfinished Thoughts; Ashlee Page’s The Kiss, one of Australia’s most successful short films of recent years, winner of 2 AFI awards and Best Emerging Filmmaker for Page at the 2010 Melbourne International Film festival; and 15/Love, one of six nominated films from the prolific Urtext Studios, described as a lucid tale of intimacy, sensuality and sunscreen.
The documentary program will include first time filmmaker Madeleine Parry’s short doco Murder Mouth – Madeleine loves her lamb souvlaki but worries that meat is murder, so she decides to reconnect the animal and the meal. Can she kill an animal, and will she still want to eat it afterwards? Several feature documentaries will screen direct from premieres at the recent BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, including Life in Movement, a dynamic portrait of the late dancer and choreographer Tanje Leidke; Bikes and Broken Bones, a glimpse inside the world of Australian freestyle Motorcross riders who tempt fate with every stunt; and Barefoot in Ethiopia, which charts the a journey of Adelaide siblings Kyra and Aiden Glasby as they travel to help the people of an Ethiopian village.
Budding young filmmakers can enjoy the SASA Shorts for Kids session, while the young at heart can check out the SASA Comedy Highlights.
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