Australian Music Week Film Festival 2017

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EVENT INFORMATION AUSTRALIAN MUSIC WEEK CONSISTS OF 4 MAIN COMPONENTS

MUSICCONFERENCE | NOV 1-4 Listen & learn from music industry leaders.

Interact & participate in relevant panel discussions.

Meet like-minded people and build your network.

FAA Conference | NOV 1 AMW Conference | NOV 2-3 AAMA Conference | NOV 4

LIVESHOWS | NOV 2-3 Australian & international artists playing multiple venues over 2 nights, buy a ticket and venue hop to see as many great shows as possible.

FILMFESTIVAL | OCT 31-NOV 3

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Wednesday 1st November - FAA - At St Andrews Church Hall between 9:00am – 5:00pm Thursday 2nd November In the Foyer of GU Filmhouse between 9:00am – 5:00pm, at El Sol Mexican 5:15pm - 10:00pm Friday 3rd November In the Foyer of GU Filmhouse between 9:00am – 5:00pm, at El Sol Mexican 5:15pm – 10:00pm Saturday 4th November AAMA - at the doors of The Brass Monkey from 9:30am

Screenings and special events featuring music films from Australia and around the world.

HIFIDAYS | NOV 5 Free Concert - Cronulla Beach - www.hifidays.com

FEATURING Harts, Tumbleweed, Letters To Lions, Hot Potato Band, Zefereli, Fox Holmes, Tall Hearts, Red Wine Roses, The Uplifting Bell Ends, Lost Tropics, Lilly Among Clouds, The Buoys + AMW 301 Music Prize Winner

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BOX OFFICE:

Pre-purchased live show wristbands, and ticket sales are available for pick up on November 2 and 3 from either: El Sol Mexican 40/42 Kingsway Open 5:30pm – 11:30pm For detailed event info go to: www.australianmusicweek.com

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CRONULLAVENUES 1 Rhythms Stage 2 St Andrew’s Church 3 Space 44 Indoor Stage 4 Space 44 Outdoor Stage 5 El Sol 6 GU Filmhouse - Conference 6

7 Croydon Lane 8 Low & Loftys 9 Brass Monkey 10 Cronulla Park - Hi-Fi Days 11 Miranda Hotel

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Welcome

to the 1st annual Australian Music Week Film Festival. We’re excited to present to you an eclectic mix of some of the finest music-related cinema from Australia and around the world. From timely, local films covering gender in music and the struggles of domestic music communities, to documentaries chronicling Japanese rock scenes and Christian Metal bands from the 80s, there’s a little something for everyone to enjoy here.

We hope you enjoy this year’s collection of films, and look forward to seeing you at the cinema!

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Larry Heath

Film Festival Director

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S CREENING GUIDE Take Me To The River (USA)

October 31st - Event Cinemas George Street – 6.30pm (Australian Premiere) Introduction by Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association “Take Me to the River” (Winner of over 10 festival awards including SXSW and Raindance London) is a film that brings multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians together, following them through the creative process of recording a historic new album, to re-imagine the utopia of racial, gender and generational collaboration of Memphis in its heyday.

Play Your Gender (Canada)

November 1st - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 6.30pm 5% of music producers are women even though many of the most bankable pop stars are female. Only 6 women have ever been nominated for the ‘Producer of the Year’ Grammy, and no woman has ever won. In Play Your Gender, Juno award-winning producer Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why this disparity exists by speaking to music industry stars and veterans about the realities of being a woman in the recording studio. Play Your Gender features interviews with Sara Quinn of Tegan & Sara, Melissa Auf der Maur of the Smashing Pumpkins, Patty Schemel of Hole, Chantal Kreviazuk, and many more of the music industry’s most talented women.

Breaking The Mould (Australia)

November 1st - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 8.30pm (World Premiere) Q&A with Director Jessie Ryan-Allen Breaking the Mould is an independent documentary which consists of a number of interviews with a diverse array of Australian artists and bands, reflecting on their experiences and sharing their opinions about the role of gender in Australian music.

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Audio Engeneering (Germany)

November 1st - Cronulla GU Eventhouse (Accompanies Breaking The Mould) (International Premiere) Audio engineering seems to be still a male domain. Even in the self organized anarchist DIY-Scene, female audio engineers are rare. This short film sits down with a female audio engineer for an evening in the self organised concert venue “Venster99” in Vienna.

Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Times of Steve Kilbey (Australia/UK)

November 2nd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 6.30pm (First Sydney Screenings) Q&A with Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Director Mike Brook Steve Kilbey has enjoyed countless successes with his band The Church, but one song, Under The Milky Way, somehow dominates the conversation. Something Quite Peculiar explores a dysfunctional relationship between a songwriter and his best known song and the journey that brought them here.

Decks and the City (Australia (Adelaide)

November 2nd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 8.30pm (Sydney Premiere) Q&A with Directors James Corbett and Glen Scrymgour Decks ands the city is a documentary that explores the passion for electronic music within the night life scene and the obstacles that DJ’s, producers, venue owners and patrons face from lawmakers and a conservative society.

Garage Rockin’ Craze (Canada/Japan)

November 2nd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 8.30pm (Australian Premiere) Garage Rockin’ Craze, the new film by indie director Mario Cuzic (Tsunami Attack, The Swap), takes you on a savage journey into the heart of underground Tokyo rock and roll. Shot over six years almost entirely by Cuzic alone, the film centres on promoter Daddy-O- Nov, the man responsible for discovering titans of Japanese gunk punk such as Guitar Wolf (Wild Zero), the 5.6.7.8’s (Kill Bill), Teengenerate (GET ACTION!!).

Australian Made – (Australia)

November 3rd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 6.30pm (30th Anniversary Screening) + Q& A with Director Richard Lowenstein Australian Made: The Movie is a July 1987 live concert film of the Australian Made tour from December 1986 to January 1987.

The tour featured internationally performing Australian acts, INXS, Divinyls, Models, The Triffids, The Saints, I’m Talking, Jimmy Barnes and Mental As Anything. The film was directed by INXS’ video collaborator, Richard Lowenstein but did not contain any footage of Mental As Anything. Concert segments were linked by Troy Davies interviewing audience members and musicians.

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November 3rd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 8.30pm

Adrift (Australia/France)

Traditional musician Shohrat Tursun hails from Uyghur, an autonomous region of northwestern China, and was famous in Japan during the 1990’s. He is now relatively unknown and lives in Australia. We follow Shohrat’s daily life in the western suburbs of Sydney where he takes us on an emotional self-reflective journey through his personal archive.

Sound of the Future: HAITI (USA)

Through the power of music, Haiti is once again become The Pearl of the Antilles.

Shout at the Ground (New Zealand)

Trapped in a speeding van, a Kiwi rock band succumb to travel sickness while deconstructing the heist that robbed them of an entire weekend’s door take.

Partycipation (UK)

November 3rd - Cronulla GU Eventhouse – 8.30pm (Accompanies Short Film Program)

Daggy Man - A Lazy Kind of Pain Caves ft. Hannah Joy - Here We Are CLYPSO - YOLO Confidence Man - Boyfriend Cosmo Thundercat - Warning Bell Curt Manor - Adelphi Hotel Nightmare Dead Language - The Man Who Killed My Father Hachiku - Moonface Explosions in the Sky - The Ecstatics Vera Blue - Private Hawksley Workman - Small Town Dracula Stevie and the Sleepers - Young Again Suss Cunts - Shit Friend WAAX - Wild & Weak Wet Lips - Here If You Need

Partycipation is a short animated documentary about the highs and lows of participating in partying as a young person today.

Animated with vivid colors and abstract visual concepts, follow our little character thought their night out, dictated by the voices and stories of young people in London.

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Buzz (Australia)

This hybrid short film/music video depicts a reality where children across Australia have risen up as one, revolted and rewritten the social contract. Over-30 adults are pushed to the fringes of society, avoiding forced chore duty at parent-less households.

The Music Stops Here (UK)

When our cities develop, why is culture the first to go? The Music Stops Here is the story of an iconic music venue’s final days before a government rail scheme forces it to close, despite the protestations of its regulars.

Western Jubilee (USA)

A film about Western Jubilee, a small Colorado recording studio devoted to the idea of cowboy music alive, featuring cowboy singer Don Edwards.

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