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ENTRIES NOW OPEN!
THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL, 23- 29 AUGUST 2010
Presented by Arts Access Victoria @ Melbourne Museum
If you would like to enter a film in the 2010 festival, please go to Enter a Film for details.
To take advantage of our Early Bird entry fee discount, enter your film before 30 November, 2009.
Final closing date 1 March 2009
To be kept informed of upcoming events and program details, please email us off@artsaccess.com.au to be added to our mailing list.
The Other Film Festival is now able to offer accessible screening presentations featuring selected films from the2008 festival.
These presentations have already been enthusiatically received at cultural institutions, shires and councils, schools, community organisations, and special interest groups.
For full details and pricing, please contact the Festival Director, Rick Randall rrandall@artsaccess.com.au
THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008
The third festival took place 3- 7 September at The Age Theatre, Melbourne Museum.
Presented by biennially by Arts Access Victoria, THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL 2008 was a kaleidoscopic of ground-breaking short films, documentaries and animations from all corners of the globe including Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Greece, UK, USA, France Iran, Denmark, Canada, Hungary and, of course, Australia.
The festival enhanced its reputation for passionate exchanges of ideas by offering a wonderfully diverse line-up of films that explored the many facets of disability with humor, verve and drama, and invites interaction with audience members via a range of guest speakers and lively forums. The 2008 line-up included more than 35 films shown over 20 sessions, in an environment that promoted accessibility for every audience member. Films were captioned and audio described and all sessions and forums were sign interpreted.
The festival was delighted to welcome several international guests including award-winning Canadian director, Paul Nadler, whose gutsy film BRAINDAMADJ'D...TAKE 2 was re-screened due to popular demand; Greek documentary-maker Antonios Rellas presented his latest film WAVES OF THE AEGEAN; Gregor Kern, the world's leading authority on disability cinema and director of Germany's long-running Wie Wie Leben (The Way We Live Festival) presented recent disability cinema from Germany, and Betty Siegel, who is the Director of Accessibility at Washington's Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts in the USA.
On the local front, Adam Elliott, Academy Award winning animator (and living national treasure) shared some hilarious (and potentially defamatory stories) about the making of his latest stop-motion feature animation, MARY AND MAX. The lead actors of YOLK were on hand to discuss the confronting implications when one young girl with Down Syndrome decides to steal a book on sex from the mobile library.
Download the 2008 program for more details.
2008 PROGRAM (Acrobat PDF 2.3MB)
2008 PROGRAM LARGE PRINT WORD DOC
The program is available in alternate formats in Braille, Audio, Large Text and email. Please contact us for this information.
Patron
Academy Award TM winning animator, Adam Elliot, continues to cover himself in glory as the festival patron.
The Other Film Festival is presented by Arts Access Victoria and was proudly supported in 2008 by:
Event Partner
Melbourne Museum
Principal Public Partner
City of Melbourne
Public Partners
Victoria, The Place Be
Film Victoria
The Australian Government Department of Families , Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Screen Australia
Principal Sponsors
Sweet Design, Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, Vision Australia, Jack Brockhoff Foundation, Connex, Fed Square, Mobility Centre
Supporters
Melbourne Community Foundation, Captioning Services International, ITFC, Media Access Australia, Canadian Consulate, Crumpler, Blythe-Sanderson Group, Goethe Institute, DADAA, Word of Mouth, RUCC, Lemac Hire, Dantes, Evan Evans
Arts Access Victoria gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Victoria, Department of Human Services and the Australia Council for the Arts.
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