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Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival 2015

Family Fare At A Film Festival

Newsletter / Thursday 22, October 2015
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In this newsletter:

Bring the kids to these four wonderful family movies
• Frackman – the film AND the man himself.
• Win tickets to the Tasmanian Craft Fair

Film festivals aren’t just for trendy people dressed in black- there are many great films made for a family audience and BOFA has three of them...plus the 40th anniversary of a classic!

AMAZONIA
AMAZONIA

There is not a word of dialogue in this amazing movie (unless you can talk to the animals). Animals are the heroes and villains of this exotic adventure set in the Amazon jungle.  Best described as a documentary-drama, it follows the adventures of a circus-trained capuchin monkey which survives a jungle plane crash,  and is forced to adapt to life in the wild. Filmed over 18 months in the Amazon, this is no Disney nature film – the dangers are real, from trapdoor spiders to prowling jaguars to predatory eagles. The baby capuchin monkey is one of the most expressive, natural child actors you’ve ever seen. The ravishingly shot wildlife safari footage and lush orchestral score will wow parents as much as the kids. A great international Festival success.

10.00am SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8  
TRAMSHEDS THEATRE

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SONG OF THE SEA
SONG OF THE SEA

Some of the world’s most adventurously entertaining cinema is being created outside of the “live action” arena. If you want some real cinematic magic at BOFA 2015, don’t miss this enchanting Irish animated film about a pair of siblings and a piece of Celtic folklore that turns out to be true. Song of the Sea comes from Tomm Moore, co-director of the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells. Like that 2009 film, this one’s hand-drawn in the traditional animation style. Ben, a young boy with a single dad, is tasked with looking after little sister Saoirse, who turns out to be half-selkie, a mythological creature who’s a seal in the ocean but human on land. What follows is their odyssey through country, city and various supernatural landscapes to find their way home. Moore’s film is alive to the world in a way that challenges, and sometimes even defies, adult understanding.  See it and feel four years old again.

12pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7  
ANNEXE THEATRE

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AND AT THE DRIVE-IN

The BOFA drive-in is located in the Aurora oval carpark- screenings start  8.15PM Friday and Saturday. Just $20 per car so bring friends or the whole family.

JAWS
FRIDAY NIGHT
JAWS

The first true Hollywood blockbuster celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and has well and truly stood the test of time. Don’t miss this suspenseful cinematic classic – even after 40 years, it’s still not safe to go back in the water.

8.15PM FRIDAY NIGHT-
AURORA STADIUM CARPARK


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SUCKER
SATURDAY NIGHT
SUCKER

A hilarious new Australian comedy from director Ben Chessell- when 18-year-old Lawrence ( John Luc) is banished to the country, he meets ‘The Professor’ (Timothy Spall)- a colourful aging conman who invites Lawrence to join him and his sharp-tongued daughter Sarah (Lily Sullivan) on a road trip, learning both the art of the swindle and the truth about love.

8.15PM SATURDAY NIGHT-
AURORA STADIUM CARPARK


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HAVE YOU GOT YOUR BOFA 2015
PROGRAM YET?

FOR THE COMPLETE 2015 PROGRAM, AND TO BOOK AND BUY YOUR TICKETS, GO HERE

MEET THE FRACKMAN
MEET THE FRACKMAN

The acclaimed documentary Frackman will open BOFA 2015 with a special screening on Wednesday night, November 4. Frackman was produced by BOFA’s own Artistic Director Trish Lake. The unlikely alliance of Allan Jones and Bob Brown both say that every Australian should see this film. Trish Lake, Richard Todd and Dayne Prazky, producer, director and star of Frackman will be BOFA’s guests on opening night. In 2014 BOFA's Big Picture Discussion was on fracking and featured the Frackman film team, including its central character, Dayne Pratzky, with moderator Paul Barclay of Radio National who broadcast the discussion in early 2015 to an audience of more than 500,000. Since then the grass-roots campaign for Frackman, a movie-length documentary about ordinary Australians caught up in a multinational ‘gas rush’, went viral on social media, with views of the trailer on Facebook alone reaching one million in the first ten days. Frackman has also won Best Film at Byron Bay Film Festival, and Best Feature Film (Factual) at the Western Australian Screen Awards. Its central character, Dayne Pratzky, has become a media superstar, and hundreds of individuals and community groups have requested to screen the film in their region using the “cinema on demand” platform Tugg. The trailer has been viewed in more than 30 countries, and even has some intrepid viewers in Antarctica. Thousands have joined in a lively commentary on the site. A decade ago, Dayne Pratzky was a 30-year-old, pig-shooting, diesel-driving construction worker who bought 100 hectares of scrubby land near Tara, in Queensland's Western Downs, hoping to improve it and sell it on. And then one day, a coal seam gas (CSG) company rolled down his driveway. Pratzky's six-year battle to stop CSG mining on his land is the subject of this film.

Dayne Pratzky, Richard Todd and Trish Lake will lead a discussion after the film.

7.30pm. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
TRAMSHEDS THEATRE


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WIN CRAFT FAIR TICKETS

What do BOFA and the Tasmanian Craft Fair have in common? They’re both great northern Tasmanian events and they’re held just a week apart. The Tasmanian Craft Fair is the largest working display of arts and crafts in Australia and will be held in 14 different venues in Deloraine from Friday, October 30 to Monday, November 2. The Craft Fair features a stunning array of hand-worked arts and crafts- tickets are $17 adult, children (10-16) $8, with a weekend pass $25 adult, $10 children. BOFA is proud to support the Tasmanian Craft Fair and can offer five free passes.  Just email owentilbury@bofa.com.au with Tasmanian Craft Fair in the subject line for a chance to win.

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Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival
04 - 08 November 2015
Inveresk Precinct Launceston TAS

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