Seniors on Screen Season 2 launches this coming Friday, 30 August at the Mercury Cinema. An over 50’s club for the digital age, Season 2 will screen 17 films including features direct from the festival circuit and special co-presentations as part of OzAsia On Screen. The program also features five South Australian premieres.
SBS TV presenter and respected film journalist Sandy George will launch Seniors on Screen Season 2, followed by the Adelaide premiere of Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (Canada). Stories We Tell won Canada’s film of the year award and bowled over critics at Sundance and Venice Film Festivals. Polley was eleven when her mother died, leaving behind many unanswered questions. Using actual and faux Super-8 home-movie footage with interviews with family members and friends, Stories We Tell raises questions about the reliability of memory and history.
Exhibition Manager Mat Kesting says “We look forward to screening some fabulous films in Season 2, including moving Australian documentary Lasseter’s Bones, SA short Pablo’s Villa, and the charming comedy and Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner Reality.”
Other highlights include Oscar-winning Director Steven Soderbergh’s Behind The Candelabra, the honest but affectionate story of the tempestuous relationship between Liberace and his lover starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas; and Ping Pong, an uplifting documentary about the over-80s table tennis world championships, starring 100 year old Australian legend Dorothy DeLow.
The hands-on workshops for aspiring mature film makers continue in Season 2, with Sound Design for Seniors running 12 – 13 November. Participants will learn how to enhance projects using music, sounds and effects, record their own sounds and how to use audio editing in Soundtrack Pro.
The popular literary adaptation series From Page to Screen returns with a discussion led by author Dr. Kerryn Goldsworthy, looking at the adaptation of Julia Strachey’s Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, published in 1932.
The Mercury is Adelaide’s home of cutting edge screen culture, the place for film lovers to meet and socialise with fellow cinephiles. Full program of films & workshops can be found online at http://www.mercurycinema.org.au.
Seniors on Screen Season 2
When: from 30 August 2013
Where: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide
Tickets: Seniors $6, General Public $12
Workshops and forum bookings: 8410 0979
Photo: The documentary ‘Ping Pong’
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