Sydney Indie Film Festival 2017 – Screening Program Unveiled!
Att: All Filmmakers & Film Fans!
We are proud and excited to share with all of you the screening’s schedule for the Sydney Indie Film Festival 2017 events!
Please note: this is just a draft post of the schedule specially for all official selections filmmakers interstate and international who are planning the travel details to come and join us at the festival, so they all know their screening dates and can start planning the festival holidays!
Photos, Posters, Trailers, all on the way!
Tickets bookings for all sessions at Event Cinemas George St will keep coming one by one getting completed this week at our Eventbrite Page:
http://sydneyindiefilmfestival.eventbrite.com
We all also immediately create Facebook Events to each individual event as they come and share on our Facebook page so you can all share and invite your friends from the Official Sydney Indie Facebook Page Events!
https://www.facebook.com/sydneyindiefilmfestival/
Plenty more of exciting updates coming!
Stay tuned!
Filmmakers already confirmed coming from all around Sydney, Australia, USA, Sweden and France to join us for their film’s premiere events and Q&A sessions with the audience! Sydney Indie 2017 is going to be Epic!
WRITE DOWN IN YOUR DIARY:
The Sydney Indie Film Festival 2017 will take place from 18-28 September at the Event Cinemas George Street inaugural Festival Space!
+ Full day of Free Film Events on the 22nd of September at Woollahra Library Double Bay!
You can start reserving your tickets for the free events at:
Looking forward to seeing you all here at the 2017 events!
SYDNEY INDIE FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PROGRAM:
Opening Night:
Monday, 18th of September 2017
Red Carpet Arrival: 5:00PM
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: Flow Australia https://vimeo.com/213402435
Shorts:
Blackbird Australia
Shoot Me Nicely United States https://vimeo.com/189033814
To Build a Fire France https://vimeo.com/178911895
Opening Night
Red Carpet Arrival: 7:10PM
Monday, 18th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: Bitch Sweden, India
Short Films:
The Apocalypse will be Automated Australia
Whoever Was Using This Bed Australia https://vimeo.com/122571165
Action & Adventure
Tuesday, 19th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: The Goners Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRMYU4MldG8
Short Films:
Doll’s House United Kingdom
Mai Australia
My Treasure El Salvador
Plane France
Action Thriller & Comedy!
Tuesday, 19th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: The Great Unwashed United Kingdom https://vimeo.com/213817066
Short Films:
Bleeding Backs Australia
Far From The Tree United States https://vimeo.com/221285254
See You In Hell United Kingdom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q9wkqhnpOw
Marriages & Divorces – SciFi + Comedy + Drama
Wednesday, 20th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: Shop of Little Pleasures Austria
Short Films:
Samuel Australia
Skin Deep United Kingdom https://vimeo.com/211467972
Epic Shorts World!
Wednesday, 20th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Short Films:
ALZHAÏMOUR Belgium
Bride of Frankie United States
Fitzgerald United States
Goodbye, mister D Russian Federation/Italy/Sweden https://vimeo.com/215062350
My Indian Rhapsody United States/India/United States https://vimeo.com/137991899
RINGO ROCKET STAR and his song for Yuri Gagarin Netherlands/Serbia
Spinosaurus United Kingdom
The Skydiver & The Scarecrow Australia
Tooth Fairy United Kingdom
The Passionate Ones
Thursday, 21st of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: Lars and the Baron (The poacher) Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDUFWshTSg8&t=9s
Short Films:
Modern Houses United States
Windscreens: The Australian Dream Australia https://vimeo.com/220961576
Epic Shorts – Thriller Drama!
Thursday, 21st of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Short Films:
Buckets United States https://vimeo.com/207316128
Calloused Hearts Australia
I’m Fine Australia
Liz Drives Australia
Padlock United Kingdom https://vimeo.com/189450508
Pardaa (Curtain) United Kingdom
The Penal Colony United Kingdom
Tightly Ground Australia
When We Meet Again Denmark
FRIDAY – ALL DAY FREE EVENTS AT WOOLLAHRA LIBRARIES DOUBLE BAY
Friday 22 September 2017, 9:30am-6:30pm
Woollahra Library, 451 New South Head Road, Double Bay
Join Woollahra Libraries and Sydney Indie Film Festival to watch a film or two as we showcase the best independently made films from all over the world, including documentaries and family favourites.
Cost: Free
Booking essential online
Friday 22 September 2017, 9:30am-10:30am
Feature Documentary: 25 Tracks AUSTRALIA
It’s 2011 and twentyfive plan to write, record then release a fresh song every two weeks of the year. twentyfive are two unknown, indie songwriters. Cath loves pop, Nick loves garage rock. She wants jazz flute, he wants a dirty guitar. Is this ever going to work, are they totally deluded, is it an impossible goal?This is not reality TV, it’s not a competition, it’s real musicians doing their own thing. And we’ve had to wait five years to see the result!
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_25_tracks
Friday 22 September 2017, 9:30am-10:45am
Feature Documentary: City of Joy USA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
In Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an area waging one of the longest conflicts in history and ravaged by sexual violence – we discover The City of Joy. This ultimately uplifting film centers around Jane, a student in the first class at a center where women who have suffered unimaginable abuse come together to create a revolutionary community of leaders.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_city_of_joy
Friday 22 September 2017, 11:00am-12:00pm
Feature Documentary: Coal is it worth it? AUSTRALIA
Filmed in Australia, the film shows the effect of coal mining on the land and in the air we breath. It depicts the destruction caused by invasive coal expansion near our farms and forests. It also documents some of the inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to stopping this destruction of our environment. Some of the best experts in the field of climate change, give us hope and knowledge to save the climate for future generations.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_coal_is_it_worth_it
Friday 22 September 2017, 11:00am-12:30pm
Feature Film: F*** You Jessica Blair ISRAEL
Karni feels detached. Detached from the world, detached from her country, detached from her language and even her own body. That is, until she meets Jessica, who happens to be on a much needed break from her dreamlike American life. While getting lost in the middle of nowhere, the pair meet two bewildered Israelis, and this band of misfits wander their way through questions of life, age, chewing gum, and themselves.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_f***_you_jessica_blair
Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Feature Documentary: Jeedara the Film AUSTRALIA
In 2016 The Great Australian Bight Alliance announced the launch of ‘Operation Jeedara’ – a campaign that would see Sea Shepherd’s the ‘Steve Irwin’ sail into the heart of the Great Australian Bight to document the beauty of the region in order to showcase what we would all stand to lose if we let BP drill there.
This film is the story of the campaign, showcasing nature on a grand scale and one of the big environmental wins of 2016. Director: Tim Watters, Country of Origin: Australia.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_jeedara_the_film
Friday 22 September 2017, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Feature Documentary: Sauti USA/UGANDA
“Sauti” (“Voice” in Swahili) follows the efforts of five young women who were brought to the Uganda’s Kyangwali Refugee Settlement as children and who, as they approach adulthood, strive to pursue their dreams for a future beyond the constraints of a protracted refugee situation in an underdeveloped host country. Though safer than they were before, little else has changed since fleeing war and persecution years ago in their home countries of Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan. “Sauti” poses hard questions and rejects easy answers. As the girls mature into women, we discover they are little different, in their most essential hopes and dreams, from us. Only the vastness of their challenges, and the simple resolve of their responses, sets them apart.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_sauti
Friday 22 September 2017, 1:15pm-2:15pm
Feature Documentary: Little Wound’s Warriors
As Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces the lasting effects of inter-generational trauma as well as a recent teen suicide epidemic, the voices of Little Wound High School students rise up in hope through their traditions, language, and the Lakota warrior heritage.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_little_wounds_warriors
Friday 22 September 2017, 2:00pm-2:45pm
Short Films:
The Silent Child
Balancé
Alternative Math
The Silent Child is inspired by real life events and tells the story of a profoundly deaf child born into a hearing family.
A caring social worker does everything she can to stop a deaf child from being treated like a stumbling block in a middle class family’s idealistic life.
Director: Chris Overton, Country of origin: UK
“Balancé” is a short documentary telling the story of working ballet dancer, Laura Purkiss. She is a soloist with Birmingham Royal Ballet with a unique difference; she is also Laura Tye; mother of two.
The portrait of Laura not only affirms the difficulties of balancing everyday family life with the hard work and dedication it takes to dance with a world class ballet company; but seeks to uncover the social challenges in returning to the work place after child birth.
Director: Ian Winstanley, Country of origin: UK
Alternative Math is a humourous look at what happens when a well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.
Director: David Maddox, Country of origin: USA
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_shorts
Friday 22 September 2017, 3:00pm-3:30pm
Family Shorts:
Drew’s Dancing Drum
Corky
Turtle Soup
Drew’s Dancing Drum: Drew loves playing his drum for people until he is bullied by a boy named Malcolm. His dad encourages Drew to go on drumming and befriend the very boy that bullied him.
Corky: A corkscrew with a screw loose battles a giant glass bottle to uncork seven magical lightning bugs trapped inside. Uncork the magic!!
Turtle Soup: Adelaide Bell, a downtrodden 7-year-old, must harness her inner strength to save a turtle from his fate as turtle soup.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_family_shorts
Friday 22 September 2017, 3:45pm-5:15pm
Feature Documentary: Passion for Planet GERMANY/AUSTRAIA/COSTA RICA/HONG KONG/INDIA/SOUTH AFRICA/UNITED STATES/ZAMBIA
Passion for Planet takes us on an adventure around the globe. In front of the most spectacular natural backdrops and wildlife observations we dive into the universe of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers. Facing the pain of the destruction of the natural world, they now have to ask themselves: Can they save their love?
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_passion_for_planet
Friday 22 September 2017, 5:30pm-6:30pm
Feature Documentary: The Memory of Fish
The Memory of Fish is a documentary portrait of the intertwined lives of Dick Goin and wild fish, and his fight to free a river. The Elwha River’s salmon fed Dick and his family after they migrated to the Olympic Peninsula during the Dust Bowl, and Dick never forgot his debt to the now disappearing fish. We follow Dick, a pulp mill worker and master fisherman, as he uses his memories and persistence to battle for the biggest dam removal project in US history so that the salmon can come home.
http://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/events/events_list/sydney_indie_film_festival_the_memory_of_fish
Epic Shorts – Comedy!
Saturday, 23rd of September 2017
Time: 2:00PM
Short Films:
#Actorslife Canada https://vimeo.com/224100311
Filling In United States https://vimeo.com/202705545
Fisheries Cops Australia
Girl Meets Roach United States https://vimeo.com/216783416
Off Book United States https://vimeo.com/219038471
Sick Australia
The Fox Australia
The United Guys Network Canada
überRICH Australia
Epic Shorts – Aussie Shorts
Saturday, 23rd of September 2017
Time: 4:00PM
Short Films:
Bluff Australia
Breathing Wild Australia https://vimeo.com/217767288
Coming Out of the Shadows – Albinism in Fiji Australia/Fiji https://youtu.be/FPcUI1ENUFg
Grey Space Australia
Grounded Australia https://vimeo.com/211431051
Kurzeme Fortress Australia https://youtu.be/g5K-Ich9RWY
Panther Australia https://vimeo.com/215968399
The Other Man Australia
The Visitant Australia
The Wheels On The Bus Australia https://vimeo.com/163396159
Romantic Comedies with the Kicks!
Saturday, 23rd of September 2017
Time: 6:00PM
Feature Film: Love is Dead France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GShthh9pJVQ
Short Films:
Stick To Your Gun New Zealand https://vimeo.com/168139479
Swipe Left Australia https://youtu.be/rfQWjAoxcbM
Tears of Valhalla New Zealand
That’s Life Australia
Vows United States https://vimeo.com/219768290
Epic Shorts – Family!
Sunday, 24th of September 2017
Time: 2:00PM
Albedo Absolute United States
Labels Australia
Muscles Australia
Night Light United States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQOGKSGiKec
Rainbow Girls Denmark
Remarkable Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8LoJtZCqdI
Spill Australia
Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote United Kingdom
Tanguito Argentino Argentina https://vimeo.com/185804718
Comedy Adventure!
Sunday, 24th of September 2017
Time: 4:00PM
Feature Film: Grand Unified Theory Canada https://vimeo.com/161267172
Short Films:
Jinxed Australia
Man On Pier Australia
Romance Comedy & New Homes!
Sunday, 24th of September 2017
Time: 6:00PM
Feature Film: The Orchard Canada/USA https://vimeo.com/174438260
Short Films:
Beyond the Bubble Australia https://vimeo.com/209847672
Mug Shot Australia https://vimeo.com/229941271
Three of A Kind United States
War In Heels Australia
Epic Shorts – Mixed Bag!
Monday, 25th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Short Films:
A Little Memory United States https://vimeo.com/205005932
A Universal Love Story Germany https://vimeo.com/192899040
Call Me Mrs Chan Hong Kong
Cosplay: Behind The Mask United States https://vimeo.com/215589982
Dear Kate Canada
Masterpiece Australia
Olfactory United States https://vimeo.com/182619972
Think Fast United States
UnTitled Australia https://youtu.be/Mvecml9SX2Y
Drama Thriller!
Monday, 25th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: Blank 13 Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIZRDOBgGE
Short Films:
Magnus United Kingdom/Norway
My Year With Suicide Australia
Shiver Australia https://vimeo.com/205497052
Epic Shorts – Sci-Fi!
Tuesday, 26th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Short Films:
Appellation United Kingdom
Eden United States
FILS Luxembourg
FTL Canada
Haley Canada
Neuroplastic Australia https://vimeo.com/212845101
Real Artists United States https://vimeo.com/183600832
Windows United States https://vimeo.com/203377146
Sci-Fi Night!
Tuesday, 26th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: Nephilim United States
Short Films:
8 Minutes Georgia
“Hero” – a charity film project Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yD-s7i75TI
She Never Felt The Cold United States https://vimeo.com/205160317
Drama Thriller Night!
Wednesday, 27th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: Isolani United Kingdom https://vimeo.com/222539329
Short Films:
5639 Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_vNRGY2Pso
Lime Green As Australia
Drama Thriller Night!
Wednesday, 27th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: One Buck United States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOMoHMo0SM
Short Films:
Doll Australia https://youtu.be/k9xkfsXW3QU
Happy Birthday Luke Canada
No Fury Australia
Once and Done United States https://vimeo.com/230028492
The Inuring United Kingdom
Closing Night Events!
Red Carpet Arrival: 5:00PM
Thursday, 28th of September 2017
Time: 5:30PM
Feature Film: Il Viaggio Italy
Language is Dead United States
The Return Australia
Awards Night Events!
Thursday, 28th of September 2017
Time: 7:40PM
Feature Film: Forgotten Man United Kingdom https://vimeo.com/138187581
Short Films:
Ineffable France
Mrs. S. Australia https://vimeo.com/168294817
Intermission
Awards Announcements!
Program subject to change without notice.
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