February 14, 2012

In the lead-up to the Academy Awards, a few Transmission titles managed to score a few more wins! Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In recently won a BAFTA Award for Film Not In An English Language.

Meanwhile, still in the United Kingdom, the 2012 Irish Film and Television Awards were held in Dublin. There, Michael Fassbender won Best Leading Actor in a Film for his role as Brandon in Shame.

The IFTA also awarded the hilarious Irish film The Guard for several awards including Best Film, Director and Script as well as Best Supporting Actress for Fionnula Flanagan

Stay tuned for more updates on the 2012 awards season!

18 January 2012

The BAFTA Film Award Nominations for 2012 have been announced and there are a few familiar names and titles we’re pleased to see in the mix! Both already BAFTA winners, Steve McQueen and Iain Canning’s Shame has been nominated for “Outstanding British Film”. Michael Fassbender has also been nominated for Leading Actor for his portrayal of Brandon in Shame.

It’s also great to see John Michael McDonagh nominated for Original Screenplay for The Guard while Pedro Almodovar’s skin-tingling The Skin I Live In has been nominated for the very British ‘Film Not In The English Language’ category. The awards ceremony will be held on February 12, make sure to stay tuned for more updates on this year’s awards race!!

December 16 2011

The list of nominations for the 69^th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced earlier today and we’re pretty stoked to see more than one of our titles getting nods from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Michael Fassbender, who has been raking up Best Actor Awards since his win at the Venice International Film Festival, was nominated for Actor (Drama) for his role in Shame.

Meanwhile, in the Actor (Musical or Comedy) category, Brendan Gleeson has been nominated for his incredibly hilarious and outrageous performance in The Guard.

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In has been nominated for Foreign Language Film, representing Spain with his psychological-thriller/melodrama genre-bender.

And finally, Viggo Mortensen has been nominated for Supporting Actor for his role as the infamous Sigmund Freud in the upcoming film A Dangerous Method, in which he stars alongside Michael Fassbender!

The awards will take place in January next year, click here to see the full list of this year’s nominations. We can’t wait!

December 13 2011

More good news for Shame star Michael Fassbender, as he took home the award for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards and again at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. The LAFCA gave Fassbender the award for his work in several films, including another Transmission title, A Dangerous Method

We’re counting three Best Actor awards for Fassbender this year, including his win at the Venice Film Festival.We look forward to seeing what else lies in store for Shame and its stars as it generates even more buzz going into the awards season!

Shame will be in Australian cinemas 9 February 2012 and New Zealand 23 February 2012.

1 December 2011

We are very proud to announce that four of our Australian films released in 2011 have been nominated at the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA). The Eye of the Storm, Mad Bastards, Sleeping Beauty and Griff the Invisible have all been recognised, totaling an impressive 21 nominations for Transmission!

To name a few, Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm and Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards have both been nominated for the prestigious award for Best Film. Geoffrey Rush has been nominated for Best Lead Actor while Judy Davis and Charlotte Rampling are both up for Best Lead Actress, all for their roles in The Eye of the Storm. Lucas Yeeda follows in their footsteps with a well-deserved nomination for Best Young Actor for his performance in Mad Bastards. Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty is in the running for Best Cinematography and Costume Design, while Leon Ford’s Griff the Invisible earned a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Check out the full list here.

Established in August 2011, the AACTA Awards are a continuation of the AFI Awards. They aim to promote and honour the status of Australian film and television at a national and international level.

Other strong competitors in the AACTA Awards include Oranges and Sunshine (produced by our sister company, See-Saw Films), Red Dog, Snowtown and The Hunter. Australia’s first AACTA Award recipients will be announced over two dates; 15 Janurary 2012 and 31 January 2012. Fingers crossed!

24 November 2011

Steve McQueen’s highly acclaimed Shame, starring the very talented Michael Fassbender has received an R18+ rating from the Australian Classification Board.

Fassbender was surprised and disappointed when the film received a similar rating of NC-17 in the U.S. Speaking to The Huffington Post, Fassbender said “Most of us have sex, so I don’t understand what we’re trying to sweep under the carpet or repress” he says.

“It’s a serious film that deserves to be treated as such. Half of us have a penis and the other half have probably seen one, and so why should it be more normal to, like, chop people’s heads off and shoot people? Does that mean that that’s more acceptable or closer to us as human beings?,” said Fassbender in the Huffington Post interview.

Fox Searchlight in the U.S has released a new SHAME trailer that will only be available in Australia via the internet. Check out the new trailer here.

Shame will be in Australian cinemas 9 February 2012 and New Zealand 23 February 2012.

4 November 2011

Exciting news for audiences in Perth and Brisbane! Five of our films are set to play at the Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) and the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), kicking off this November. BIFF is screening David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, Tusi Tamasese’s Samoan beauty The Orator and Pedro Almodóvar’s masterpiece The Skin I live In. PIAF is playing Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, Peter Mullan’s NEDS, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope and also The Orator.

Both festivals showcase a myriad films from around the world, celebrating the vibrant art of filmmaking and embracing cinematic culture.

BIFF: 3 November – 13 November 2011
PIAF: 28 November 2011 – 15 April 2012

1 November 2011

The nominees for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) have been announced and we are thrilled that Shame, The Guard and The Skin I Live In have all been nominated. Steve McQueen’s Shame is one of the leading films with seven nominations including the coveted Best British Film Award, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards. Brendan Gleeson has been nominated for Best Actor for the hilarious The Guard, while Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In has received a nomination for Best Foreign Independent Film.

BIFA strives to celebrate achievements in independently funded British filmmaking, honour new talent and showcase the British film culture to a wider audience. The winners will be decided by an independent jury comprising of luminaries from the British film industry and will be announced on 4 December 2011. Fingers crossed for our films!

11 October 2011

The nominees for the fifth Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) have been announced and we are delighted that both The Eye of the Storm and The Orator have been nominated. Judy Davis has earned a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in Fred Schepisi’s Eye of the Storm, while Fa’afiaula Sagote has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in the beautiful Samoan film, The Orator.

APSA have announced that thirty-seven films from nineteen countries have been nominated to receive awards in the region’s highest accolade in film, which aims to promote and applaud the cinematic excellence in the region. The winners are determined by an international jury who judge the films on their cinematic excellence and the manner in which they represent their cultural origins.

The fifth annual APSA Ceremony will take place on 24th November 2011 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Good luck Judy and Fa’afiaula!

30 September 2011

We’re thrilled to hear it was recently announced that The Orator (O Le Tulafale) has been submitted as the New Zealand selection for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84^th Academy Awards. The film, written and directed by debut feature filmmaker Tusi Tamasese, tells the story of Saili, a man who is small in stature and humble, living a simple life with his family. When Saili is forced to protect his land, and his family, he must face his fears and find his voice to speak up to those he loves.

This is not the first honour The Orator has been awarded, however, at its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival it received a Special Mention from the Orizzonti Jury, the Art Cinema Award from the CICAE Jury of the Festival; and the CinemAvvenire Best Film – Il cerchio non è rotondo Award from the Jury of the Associazione Centro Internazionale CinemAvvenire. It is, however, a very historical moment – as it is the first time New Zealand has submitted a film for consideration for the Foreign Language Film category. It is also the first major Samoan language feature film to be released!

Make sure to check out this review from Variety’s Leslie Felperin, who described The Orator as “a compelling drama… that marks an auspicious feature debut for writer-helmer Tusi Tamasese.”

The Orator joins many fantastic international titles, including Mexico’s own Miss Bala. Stay tuned for more news on these titles and more!

23 September 2011

The Hollywood Reporter has just revealed Mexico has picked its foreign-language selection for the 84^th Academy Awards andit’s none other than Miss Bala! While most beauty pageant contestants dream of world peace, Miss Bala tells the story of beautiful, young Laura who dreams of being crowned Miss Mexico, yet involuntarily gets caught-up in the middle of a drug war in California. Luckily for writer and director Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala may get her dream by representing Mexico at the Oscars.

Eight other Mexican features have received nominations in the category since 1957, but so far none have won. Naranjo hopes to break that trend by bringing home the honor, and we think he might just do it! Miss Bala has screened at festivals like Cannes, Toronto, Tokyo and San Sebastian, and you can check out a review of the film from Cannes HERE. Stay tuned for upcoming news on Miss Bala and other festival films to be released in the upcoming months!

19 September 2011

“Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In has made the Spanish Academy’s three-film shortlist for its foreign-language Oscar contender. Skin faces off with Agusti Villaronga’s Black Bread and Benito Zambrano’s The Sleeping Voice.

In a statement after the shortlist was known, Almodovar said that the selection “demonstrated Spanish cinema’s variety,” and that the Spanish Academy’s final choice of its foreign-language Oscar contender was “absolutely unpredictable.”

Certainly, Skin‘s selection is no shoo-in. Only one of Almodovar’s last four films, Volver, has been chosen by the Spanish Academy as Spain’s foreign-language Oscar candidate, although Almodovar won a U.S. Academy Award for one of the films rejected by the Spanish Academy in the foreign-language category: Original Screenplay for Talk to Her.”
- From an article by Emilio Mayorga, Variety

12 September 2011

We’ve just received the great news that Steve McQueen’s film, Shame, received the FIPRESCI – International Federation of Film Critics – Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival! It was also announced that the film’s star, Michael Fassbender, won the award for Best Actor at the festival!

Shame is produced by See-Saw Films’ Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, who recently won the Oscar for Best Film with The King’s Speech.  See-Saw and Transmission, who will be distributing Shame to Australia and New Zealand in early 2012, are thrilled to be working on another project that is already garnering so much critical acclaim!

See-Saw’s Emile Sherman said: “See-Saw is extremely proud of this film and we congratulate Michael Fassbender on the recognition by the Venice Film Festival Jury, headed by Darren Aronofsky, of his brave and powerful performance. Colin Firth previously won this award and went on to win the Oscar for Best Actor so we are very excited that this award puts Michael on the same path.”

We’re also thrilled to hear another of our films to screen at Venice, The Orator, won the CICAE award. This prize is awarded to a film that promotes the values of peace and dialogue between cultures through cinema.

Shame will also screen at the upcoming San Sebastian, Toronto and New York Film Festivals.

9 September 2011

Andrea Arnold’s newest feature Wuthering Heights, an adaptation of the Emily Brontë’s renowned novel of the same name, screened at the Venice Film Festival recently to rave reviews! Hollywoodnews.com claimed Wuthering Heights has been the first film to screen at Venice that ‘floored the collective journalism corps’. Set in the wild and windy moors of Yorkshire, Arnold’s third film has been called her ‘most successful and satisfying feature to date’, read more at The Hollywood Reporter! The film is told mainly through the eyes of Heathcliff, as he is raised at a farmhouse alongside the owner, Mr Earnshaw’s two children Cathy and Hindley. Arnold’s raw and moody approach to the tragic love-story of Heathcliff and Cathy has left audiences craving more!

Wuthering Heights will be coming soon in 2012 – make sure to stay tuned for more news and festival updates!

5 September 2011

Two of our titles currently screening at the Venice International Film Festival are already receiving great praise from critics and audiences alike. Steve McQueen’s second feature, Shame, is a raunchy, wild look at sexual addiction staring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. The Hollywood Reporter said both Fassbender and Mulligan ‘give dynamite performances’ – click HERE to read the entire review!

Fassbender also stars in A Dangerous Method, with Viggo Mortensen and Kiera Knightley. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film traces the relationship between Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud – and the beautiful, troubled woman who comes between them. Read more in the rave reviews from Screen Daily and Variety!

Popular on the festival circuit and hot contenders for awards season, Shame and A Dangerous Method will be also play Telluride Film Festival, and A Dangerous Method will screen along with Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In at the upcoming New York Film Festival later this month!

5 September 2011

We are so proud and excited that our latest collaboration with See-Saw Films, Steve McQueen’s Shame, has been selected for the Venice, San Sebastian, Toronto and New York Film Festivals! The film is produced by See-Saw’s Iain Canning and Emile Sherman who recently won the Oscar for Best Film with The King’s Speech.

Transmission Joint-Managing Director Richard Payten says: “Shame is a brilliant film and one that Transmission is exceptionally proud to distribute. Emile and Iain have an incredible track record for identifying commanding, provocative, thoughtful scripts and outstanding creative teams. Shame is no exception. Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan are electrifying!” We can’t wait to share Shame with Australia and New Zealand in early 2012. Starring two of the industry’s hottest actors, Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, the film had its world premiere In Competition at this week’s Venice Film Festival and the rave reviews keep coming.

Emile (and of course Iain) is equally as thrilled to see the film embraced by so many festivals, “Steve McQueen’s first feature film, Hunger, was a stunning directorial debut and we are taking the film to so many prestigious festivals over the coming months. The film is a powerful exploration of the sexualisation of contemporary society and the challenges of connecting with those close to us.”

Shame follows Brandon, a 30-something man living comfortably in New York balancing a busy job and active social life. When the wayward Sissy turns up at his apartment unannounced, Brandon’s carefully managed lifestyle spirals out of control. It is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.

1 September 2011

The BFI London Film Festival is set to close on October 27 with Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea. Based on the Terence Rattigan play of the same name, the film stars Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale and Rachel Weisz. The wife of a high court judge leading a privileged life in 1950s London, Weisz plays a woman who shocks those around her by one day walking out of her marriage to move in with a former RAF pilot. Sandra Hebron, artistic director for the London Film Festival, said, ‘this beautifully directed and acted film is the perfect closing-night film’. Producers Sean O’Connor and Kate Ogborn described The Deep Blue Sea as being a ‘very much London-based film,’ making the festival a perfect location for the film’s U.K. premiere. This wonderful drama will also play at the Toronto International Film Festival and we’ll be releasing it in 2012. Stay tuned!

8 August 2011

Fred Schepisi’s Eye of the Storm took home The Age’s Critic’s award recently at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The award, which is new to the festival this year, was judged by The Age’s film critics: Philippa Hawker, Tom Ryan, Jim Schembri and Jake Wilson.

The Arts Editor of The Age, Gina McColl, said The Eye of the Storm was selected by the panel due to “Schepisi’s artful direction, the rich performances in major and minor roles, the thoughtful engagement with an Australian literary classic, and the vivid, witty depiction of the bonds of family and of the life of a culture in the process of transformation.”

The Eye of the Storm is due to release in Australia on September 15^th, stay tuned for more updates and news on the film!

1 August 2011

It was announced last week in Rome that New Zealand feature film The Orator has been officially selected for competition in the Orizzonti (New Horizons) section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. A contemporary drama about a humble man, Saili, who must find the courage to speak up for those he loves to protect his land and family, The Orator will be making its premiere as the first ever film to be filmed entirely in the Samoan language.

Meanwhile, seven Transmission titles have also been selected to screen at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival. A Dangerous Method, Deep Blue Sea, Shame, The Skin I Live In, We Have A Pope, The Eye of the Storm and Burning Man will all be shown during the festival in September. The Eye of the Storm will be making its international premiere at the festival. Stay tuned for more info about these films and more!

29 July 2011

This week saw the UK premiere of the newest film from arguably one of Spain’s greatest directors, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In. Launched at the Film4 Summer Screen outdoor cinema, the Brits battled the unpredictable weather, packed into Somerset House and rubbed elbows with the stars. The film centers on Antonio Banderas as a brilliant but twisted plastic surgeon and Elena Anaya as his guinea pig for a new synthetic skin. Premiere Scene caught up with leading-lady Anaya and director Almodóvar to find out more about the process of working together on such an intense film. You can see the full interview here and read more about the screening over here! The Skin I Live In, starring Elena Anaya (Room in Rome), will premiere in Australia on the 26th of December, stay tuned for more updates!

26 July 2011

We are very happy to bring you the news that the first Australian/German co-production to join the Transmission Films slate has just started filming. Lore, from Somersault director Cate Shortland, is set in the spring of 1945 as the German front collapses and the Allied forces take control over Hitler’s country. Lore is based on the Man Brooker Prize-nominated novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert. Read more about the film here and stay tuned for more updates as filming progresses.

13 July 2011

Sydneysiders rejoice! Director Fred Schepisi and actor Geoffrey Rush will be taking your questions about their new film, The Eye of the Storm, at a very special advance screening and Q&A. Don’t miss your chance to speak directly with these inimitable Australians and see the most anticipated local film of the year, based on Nobel Laureate Patrick White’s novel of the same name, before it opens nationally on September 15.

Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne
6.30pm, Thursday 28 July
Tickets available at the box office or online

07 July 2011

The Melbourne International Film Festival is almost here! Sharing it’s sixtieth anniversary with Geoffrey Rush (recently nominated for an Academy Award in our own The King’s Speech), the two shared a birthday cake at last night’s launch party. Not only the Festival Patron for MIFF, Geoffrey stars as Sir Basil in The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi and based on Patrick White’s novel of the same name, which will have its World Premiere at MIFF on July 23.

Other Transmission films at MIFF this year are the hilarious The Guard, directed by John Michael McDonagh, “the brother of the guy who made In Bruges”; Jason Eisener’s gore-filled delight, Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Bladerunner’s Rutger Hauer; Michael Epstein’s inspirational and very personal John Lennon documentary, LENNONYC; Kevin Macdonald’s fascinating Life In A Day, which creatively captures the day that was July 24, 2010; Peter Mullan’s gritty Glaswegian drama, Neds; and Ken Loach’s latest powerful and intense film, Route Irish.

27 June 2011

It’s been over a month since the Cannes Film Festival so we thought we’d better hurry up and let you know what goodies we picked up! Transmission Managing Directors Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten had busy schedules as usual but were not too exhausted upon returning home to get us pumped about their latest shopping spree…

Amour reunites the gorgeous Isabelle Huppert with master filmmaker Michael Haneke whose last film distributed by Transmission, The White Ribbon, won him the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2009

Thanks for Sharing, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins, is the directorial debut of The Kids Are Alright screenwriter Stuart Blumberg

We Have a Pope is an Italian comedy-drama from Nanni Moretti about a newly elected Pope who isn’t sure he’s the right man for the job

Miss Bullet is our second Mexican acquisition (the other was Camera d’Or winner Leap Year). Directed by Gerado Neranjo, the film follows a young woman clinging to her dream to become a beauty queen in a Mexico dominated by organised crime

The Art of Love is a new French romantic-comedy starring Judith Godrèche (from our recent release, Potiche (Trophy Wife)) amongst a charming ensemble cast, from the director of Shall We Kiss?

We’re all very excited to be bringing you these new films… eventually (most won’t be ready for a while so stay tuned for release dates)…

22 June 2011

Sydney has had it’s turn and before Melbourne gets a go our friends across the Tasman will be flooded with fantastic films to keep them busy during July’s cold nights. The New Zealand Film Festival has annouced it’s Auckland line-up (with Wellington and others still to come) and, as usual, Transmission has it’s hands in this annual Kiwi pie.

Catch the hilarious The Guard, directed by John Michael McDonagh, “the brother of the guy who made In Bruges”; Jason Eisener’s gore-filled delight, Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Bladerunner’s Rutger Hauer; and Julia Leigh’s debut feature Sleeping Beauty, fresh from Official Competition at Cannes and Sydney Film Festivals.

Tickets (on sale this Friday) and more info here.

22 June 2011

We’re very exited to bring you two new trailers for new films from two not-so-new cinema masterminds…

We’ve already shown you the first teaser trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s haunting new thriller, The Skin I Live In, starring Antonio Banderas; now comes the second thrilling teaser which is sure to make your skin crawl. Watch it here.

It’s been a few years since David Cronenberg drew us into the dark world of the Russian mafia and the unsettling secret lives of ex-hit men in Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Now he’s back to shine light on quite a different subject matter but with his usual flare for the intense. In A Dangerous Method, starring Cronenberg-favourite Viggo Mortensen alongside Keira Knightly and Michael Fassbender, our daring director delves into Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud’s relationship and the ensuing birth of psychoanalysis. The official trailer was released this week, watch it here.

17 June 2011

Is Sleeping Beauty the most anticipated film of the year? We think it might be. It opens nationally on 23 June but a few lucky Sydneysiders and Melbournites will have the chance to see it first at special advance screenings.

In Sydney, Palace Verona are holding a screening and Q&A with writer/director Julia Leigh, production designer Annie Beauchamp and cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson.
The screening starts at 6:30 pm, buy tickets go to the Sydney Q&A here.

In Melbourne Palace Como is holding a screening and ‘meet the filmmakers’ on Monday 20 June at Palace Como with writer/director Julia Leigh and actors Ewen Leslie and Peter Carroll.
The screening starts at 6:30 pm, buy tickets here.

Get in quick so you don’t miss out!

17 June 2011

Welcome to our brand new website! Taking inspiration from the beautiful cinema that informs our working world, we have been hard at it with our clever friends at The Solid State creating a visually rich and engaging gateway to the slate of films we are so proud to distribute. From the home page to the depths of the Transmission library, immerse yourself in beautiful, exciting, frightening, strange, controversial, heart-wrenching, heart-pumping, hilarious and uplifting cinema. See what’s coming next, find something new or rediscover an old favourite. Watch trailers and sizzle reels, read synopses and reviews, flip through film stills and posters. Check out our recommended section for things we love. Talk to us on Facebook and Twitter to tell us what you think. This is a website for cinephiles and novices, media and industry professionals alike. This is our website, for you.

10 June 2011

Its that time of year again, when Encore Magazine names it’s Power Top 50 film & TV movers and shakers of the past twelve months – “those whose decisions influence and shape Australia’s audiovisual industry, and whose work has stood out from the crowd.” Once again, Transmission Films MDs Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten have ranked high on the list, this time looking better than ever at #5. According to Encore, “[t]heir names have become synonymous with successful distribution of Australian and art house films… Transmission hasn’t stopped believing in filmmakers that take risks.”

Elsewhere on the list, producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech) from Transmission’s sister company, See-Saw Films, took the crown at #1 while Sleeping Beauty director Julia Leigh came in at Andrew and Richard’s 2010 slot, #9 and The Tunnel producers Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey debuted at #40.

Thanks Encore! See the full list here.

10 June 2011

Transmission Films is again proud to bring you the latest film from internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker – nay, film master – Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Blanca Suarez, The Skin I Live In follows an eminent plastic surgeon’s quest to create a new sensitive but protective skin and the human guinea pig forced for wear it…

“Our most anticipated film of the year.”
Indiewire

Watch the new teaser trailer now
Read The Guardian’s four star review

10 June 2011

Transmission Films is proud to release the first of what we hope to be many Cannes Collection box sets. With ten of the best films to come out of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2008 – 2010, this box set will give your home entertainment collection some serious cinematic clout. Award-winners, Official Selections and Closing Night films from celebrated auteurs, masters of cinema, controversial curiosities and exciting new discoveries come together in this beautifully presented collection. Rediscover Haneke’s The White Ribbon and Soderbergh’s Che; delve into von Trier’s Antichrist and Noé’s Enter the Void; learn to live and love with Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, Bertuccelli’s The Tree, Arnold’s Fish Tank and Rowe’s Leap Year; and escape with Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. With a special introduction by Mathieu Ravier, this collection is a cinephile’s dream come true.

Available exclusively through JB Hi-Fi stores and online.

10 June 2011

It’s that “woohoo the Sydney Film Festival is on” time of year again and the outstanding 2011 SFF line-up once again brings a cultural array of cinematic delight to this vibrant city.

Transmission Films are proud to have five of our titles in this year’s festival, including Julia Leigh’s debut feature Sleeping Beauty which has been selected for Official Competition. Be sure to also check out Jason Eisener’s Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Bladerunner’s Rutger Hauer; Michael Epstein’s inspirational John Lennon documentary LennoNYC; the hilarious The Guard, directed by John Michael McDonagh, “the brother of the guy who made In Bruges”; and Kevin Macdonald’s fascinating Life In A Day, which creatively captures the day that was July 24, 2010.

From daring stylistic approaches to confronting documentaries to inspirational stories, there is something for everybody. Be sure not to miss this exciting event! The Sydney Film Festival runs from 8 – 19 June in various locations around Sydney.
www.sff.org.au