The Northern Rivers Times
October 19, 2023
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Byron Bay Film Festival showcases local shorts at Brunswick Heads
narrative-based continuity. Videopoetry complements the words of the poem with sound and visuals, but also supplements the poem by visually expressing it, he says. Small Town Mentality does exactly that: it doesn’t tell, it shows, stirring up nostalgia for days past. Ocean Shores teen Kaia Joaquin Walton was 17 when he filmed Ghost Roommate. It’s a light-hearted story of young social media addict Oliver Davies, who has chanced upon a too good to be true rental house in the middle of the housing crisis. The only downside? An impertinent resident ghost named Winston. about a homeless mother – the honeybee. Shot The two young (well-known Byron actor entirely on an iPhone, characters come from Philippa Bennett) and her this intimate journey very different worlds into a honeybee colony teenage son. A car is the and eras and each wants provides a mindPlan B home when their the space for themselves emergency motel room is boggling look into one – but their arguments of nature’s most intricate mask their need for each no longer available. The super-organisms. In trouble is, they are as other’s company. This 2015, Mirabai’s launch distant from each other short mockumentary film for a crowdfunding as they are from any is inspired by the campaign for the real home. It’s a mature cinematic brilliance of revolutionary Flow Hive Taika Waititi, and the look at the bleak reality beehive raised over $15 of a growing number no-fourth-wall approach million and has been of TV show The Office, viewed over a billion says Kaia. times. She aims to spend The tension rachets her life documenting up in 18-year-old Miro the importance of the Salom’s Kane, a teen world’s 20,000 bee horror flick set in a species. local schoolyard, at Small Town Mentality night-time when, despite LIVE EVENTS STAGED AT 900 SEAT HISTORIC HERITAGE THEATRE WITH WONDERFUL ACOUSis a spoken word the audience screaming TICS, AIR CONDITIONING, COMFORTABLE SEATING AND SUPERB LINE OF SIGHT character-based ‘don’t do it!’ a gaggle THE SOWETO AN THE SHOWING... GOSPELNOW DAMI IM AFTERNOON TENORIof students go in to videopoem developed THEROBERTSON SOWETO AN McCLYMONTS BROTHERS CHOIR AT THE PROMS by HeathTHE Lines as his •GOSPEL Killers of the Flower DAMI • IM Saw X (MAAFTERNOON 15+) investigate the ancient TENORI ERTSON Moon (M) McCLYMONTS graduate film project story of a murderer’s • Paw Patrol: The Mighty OTHERS CHOIR AT THE PROMS • TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS for his BA in Film, Movie (PG) ghost locked away in a TOUR (M) completed this year. cupboard. They find their • The Exorcist: Believer (MA Intent on pushing the prey – and come to have 15+) limits of conventional bloody regrets about it. • Expend4bles (MA 15+) forms of media, Heath Miro made his first fully SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY THURSDAY sees videopoetry as FRIDAY developed short film 20TH JULY 2019 27TH JULY 2019 3RD AUGUST 2019 27TH OCTOBER 2019 31ST OCTOBER 2019 22ND NOVEMBER 2019 anSale outlier in media, the age of 13. Since Tickets on Sale Now. Tickets on Sale Now. Tickets on Sale Now. Tickets on Sale Now. Tickets on Now. Tickets on Sale at Now. COMING SOON... due to its avant-garde then he has worked on nature and lack of a multitude of films as a Spotlight on Byron – a long-standing highlight of the Byron Bay Film Festival – hails the work of Northern Rivers filmmakers in a showcase of nine films to be screened at the iconic Brunswick Picture House. The diverse talent on display never fails to amaze BBFF’s audiences, and Spotlight on Byron provides an opportunity for filmmakers to have their work shown on the big screen for friends, family, and the whole community. This year’s films include Mullumbimby creative and academic Dylan Kai Harris’s Doors Into Art, a journey through the creative mind of local artist Lindi Nielsen, in which a dancer finds inspiration for movement in some of Lindi’s colourful paintings. Dylan was born in California and came to Byron Shire at the age of seven with his family. A product of Steiner education, he completed a film degree
at Griffith Film School in Brisbane, during which he developed a fascination with Japanese cinema, and the influence shows. A dancer of another kind is the protagonist in Bangay Lore, a poignant look at one of the ways First Nations customs are crushed by whitefellas’ rules, from multi awardwinning filmmaker Jahvis Loveday, who plays the leading role as well as writing, producing, editing and co-directing alongside Kiahma O’donovan. Bangay Lore means spear in the Dyirbal language of Far North Queensland – Jahvis’s mob’s country, though he grew up fishing along the banks of the Brunswick River. It focuses on one night in the life of a young Indigenous dancer, whose culture is deemed acceptable when it is performed on stage, less so outside the theatre. “Both expressions need to co-exist for our culture to survive,” Jahvis says. The young Mullum
resident completed his Bachelor of Film at SAE Institute in Byron Bay in 2020, creating over 12 short films and 200 online videos. Hiraeth tells a tale that is sadly all too common along the North Coast. The title is Welsh and means a deep longing for home, and the film is
of people’s lives, by 21-year-old Alexander Wardrop from Lismore. Mirabai NicholsonMckella is a selfconfessed bee obsessive and her film The Secret Life of Bees offers viewers the chance to get up close and personal with one of nature’s hardest little workers
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focus puller and camera operator, honing his skills as a filmmaker. Related is a warmhearted mum and daughter human comedy written and produced by Suffolk Park’s Emily Hutchinson. The enforced intimacy of a car-ride home speaks of over-familiarity and unspoken neediness and disappointment in an awkwardly funny examination of family dynamics, hilariously exposed when they are pulled over by a worldweary policeman for running a red light. The highly experienced Shane Crosland returns following his successful Festival outing in 2022 with The Chieftain of the Pudding Race. Shane’s entry this year, The M Word, is based on his personal experiences while travelling from his home country of America to Australia and funding the trip with bar work along the way, meeting a colourful crew of international expats. Most of The M Word’s cast and crew have had some hospo experience and the film pokes fun at the industry and other curiosities, with the nihilistic barman, played by Shane, narrating straight to camera through a series of vignettes from the sordid world of late-night bars. Spotlight on Byron screens at the Brunswick Picture House at 3.30pm on Saturday, October 21. Tickets for this and all Festival sessions, including the Red Carpet Opening Night World Premiere Gala, are on sale at bbff.com. au
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