After a theatrical run in Australia and Indonesia, Aussie feature Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites will return to the USA, where it made its international premiere earlier this year at Park City's Slamdance..
Directed by Platon Theodoris (profiled by If in March), the critically acclaimed Alvin will screen at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood and Chicago as part of the monthly Slamdance Cinema Club..
The two-year-old program, a partnership between ArcLight and Slamdance, is designed to bring indies from the festival circuit to ArcLight cinemas.
.We are excited for audiences to embrace these incredibly diverse independent films," said ArcLight Cinemas executive vp cinema programming Gretchen McCourt. "It.s partnerships like this that continue to make ArcLight.s programming unique."
Alvin is set to screen next month, with the director in attendance alongside lead actors Teik-Kim Pok and Ailis Logan and Q&A's occuring after each screening.
"The whole team is super...
Directed by Platon Theodoris (profiled by If in March), the critically acclaimed Alvin will screen at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood and Chicago as part of the monthly Slamdance Cinema Club..
The two-year-old program, a partnership between ArcLight and Slamdance, is designed to bring indies from the festival circuit to ArcLight cinemas.
.We are excited for audiences to embrace these incredibly diverse independent films," said ArcLight Cinemas executive vp cinema programming Gretchen McCourt. "It.s partnerships like this that continue to make ArcLight.s programming unique."
Alvin is set to screen next month, with the director in attendance alongside lead actors Teik-Kim Pok and Ailis Logan and Q&A's occuring after each screening.
"The whole team is super...
- 9/25/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio of a mild-mannered man who never leaves his tiny apartment is weird, warped and not easily forgotten
Australian cinemagoers tend to be wary of locally made films billed as “quirky”. There’s a general feeling we’ve had too many of them for too long, the best associated with a stretch in the 1990s when several doozies fell off the assembly line including The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding and Welcome to Woop Woop.
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio, Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites, is certainly quirky, but not the kind Australian cinema is accustomed to. It’s more like something in the realm of Being John Malkovich, the crazy mental wilderness of Charlie Kaufman swapped out for a slighter and more sedate kind of fantasy.
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Australian cinemagoers tend to be wary of locally made films billed as “quirky”. There’s a general feeling we’ve had too many of them for too long, the best associated with a stretch in the 1990s when several doozies fell off the assembly line including The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding and Welcome to Woop Woop.
Writer/director Platon Theodoris’s low-budget curio, Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites, is certainly quirky, but not the kind Australian cinema is accustomed to. It’s more like something in the realm of Being John Malkovich, the crazy mental wilderness of Charlie Kaufman swapped out for a slighter and more sedate kind of fantasy.
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- 3/29/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites premiered at Perth's Revelation Film Festival last year before going on to screen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival..
The first film from Australian filmmaker Platon Theodoris, it made its Stateside debut in January at Park City's Slamdance Festival.
"I was worried that the humour wouldn't translate [in America]", the director said, "but they loved it"..
Theodoris was particularly nervous after a screening in Jakarta had gone down like a lead balloon.
"It's an informal Indonesian-Australian co-production, because part of the film was shot in Indonesia and one of the main actors is Indonesian, so we'd screened it at an arthouse cinema called Kino Forum in Jakarta, and it was unfortunate because even though we had really good subtitles, it didn't quite translate".
The film will screen later this month at Acmi, and at Sydney's Golden Age Cinema and Parramatta's Riverside Theatre.in April.
Theodoris did an...
The first film from Australian filmmaker Platon Theodoris, it made its Stateside debut in January at Park City's Slamdance Festival.
"I was worried that the humour wouldn't translate [in America]", the director said, "but they loved it"..
Theodoris was particularly nervous after a screening in Jakarta had gone down like a lead balloon.
"It's an informal Indonesian-Australian co-production, because part of the film was shot in Indonesia and one of the main actors is Indonesian, so we'd screened it at an arthouse cinema called Kino Forum in Jakarta, and it was unfortunate because even though we had really good subtitles, it didn't quite translate".
The film will screen later this month at Acmi, and at Sydney's Golden Age Cinema and Parramatta's Riverside Theatre.in April.
Theodoris did an...
- 3/17/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites premiered at Perth's Revelation Film Festival last year before going on to screen at the Sydney Underground Film Festival..
The first film from Australian filmmaker Platon Theodoris, it made its Stateside debut in January at Park City's Slamdance Festival.
"I was worried that the humour wouldn't translate [in America]", the director said, "but they loved it"..
Theodoris was particularly nervous after a screening in Jakarta had gone down like a lead balloon.
"It's an informal Indonesian-Australian co-production, because part of the film was shot in Indonesia and one of the main actors is Indonesian, so we'd screened it at an arthouse cinema called Kino Forum in Jakarta, and it was unfortunate because even though we had really good subtitles, it didn't quite translate".
The film will screen later this month at Acmi, and at Sydney's Golden Age Cinema and Parramatta's Riverside Theatre.in April.
Theodoris did an...
The first film from Australian filmmaker Platon Theodoris, it made its Stateside debut in January at Park City's Slamdance Festival.
"I was worried that the humour wouldn't translate [in America]", the director said, "but they loved it"..
Theodoris was particularly nervous after a screening in Jakarta had gone down like a lead balloon.
"It's an informal Indonesian-Australian co-production, because part of the film was shot in Indonesia and one of the main actors is Indonesian, so we'd screened it at an arthouse cinema called Kino Forum in Jakarta, and it was unfortunate because even though we had really good subtitles, it didn't quite translate".
The film will screen later this month at Acmi, and at Sydney's Golden Age Cinema and Parramatta's Riverside Theatre.in April.
Theodoris did an...
- 3/17/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Director Joseph Sims-Dennett and star Lindsay Farris.
Filmmaker Joseph Sims-Dennett describes his second feature, Observance, as "a surrealist horror art film".
Sims-Dennett and his friend and co-screenwriter Josh Zammit decided to make the film, which stars Lindsay Farris and John Jarratt, after leaving the same commercials agency.
The result is a film that's "a metaphor for the anxiety that Josh and I were feeling back when we lost our jobs".
"It's about about a character who feels as though there's this invisible force that's manipulating him and almost possessing him".
Observance was shot in eleven days, in the middle of a sweltering Sydney summer.
"It was such a mad shoot, and it did translate in the images", Sims-Dennett said..
The director also credits the sound design done by Brisbane company Wild Blue as intrumental in establishing the film's "sense of anxiety and dread".
The filmmaking team knew they wanted to take the film overseas first,...
Filmmaker Joseph Sims-Dennett describes his second feature, Observance, as "a surrealist horror art film".
Sims-Dennett and his friend and co-screenwriter Josh Zammit decided to make the film, which stars Lindsay Farris and John Jarratt, after leaving the same commercials agency.
The result is a film that's "a metaphor for the anxiety that Josh and I were feeling back when we lost our jobs".
"It's about about a character who feels as though there's this invisible force that's manipulating him and almost possessing him".
Observance was shot in eleven days, in the middle of a sweltering Sydney summer.
"It was such a mad shoot, and it did translate in the images", Sims-Dennett said..
The director also credits the sound design done by Brisbane company Wild Blue as intrumental in establishing the film's "sense of anxiety and dread".
The filmmaking team knew they wanted to take the film overseas first,...
- 3/9/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites.
Australian filmmakers are largely missing in action at Sundance this year.
Fortunately that's not the case at Slamdance, Sundance's younger sibling, which runs concurrently in Park City..
Slamdance will screen Sydney-shot The Tail Job, the debut of Bryan Moses and Daniel Millar, as well as Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites, a charmingly batty surreal comedy from first-timer Platon Theodoris.
Both will screen in Slamdance's Competition.
Alvin stars Sydney-based artists Teik-Kim Pok and Vashti Hughes, as well as Indonesian gospel-queen Dessy Fitri, and was shot in Sydney, Kalgoorlie and Jakarta..
Slamdance's programmer, Aaron Marshall, describes it thus:
"Alvin hasn.t left his tiny apartment in 18 months. He.s holed up, hiding from the stressful outside world behind a collection of stuffed pandas and vintage knickknacks. But no matter how hard he tries, society.s chaos keeps oozing back in. Part grounded comedy, part magical allegory, Alvin...
Australian filmmakers are largely missing in action at Sundance this year.
Fortunately that's not the case at Slamdance, Sundance's younger sibling, which runs concurrently in Park City..
Slamdance will screen Sydney-shot The Tail Job, the debut of Bryan Moses and Daniel Millar, as well as Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites, a charmingly batty surreal comedy from first-timer Platon Theodoris.
Both will screen in Slamdance's Competition.
Alvin stars Sydney-based artists Teik-Kim Pok and Vashti Hughes, as well as Indonesian gospel-queen Dessy Fitri, and was shot in Sydney, Kalgoorlie and Jakarta..
Slamdance's programmer, Aaron Marshall, describes it thus:
"Alvin hasn.t left his tiny apartment in 18 months. He.s holed up, hiding from the stressful outside world behind a collection of stuffed pandas and vintage knickknacks. But no matter how hard he tries, society.s chaos keeps oozing back in. Part grounded comedy, part magical allegory, Alvin...
- 1/19/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Two Aussie films have been selected to screen at the Slamdance Film Festival in Utah.
Alvin.s Harmonious World of Opposites by director and screenwriter Platon Theodoris and The Tail Job by directors and screenwriters Bryan Moses, Daniel Millar have been announced in official competition at the festival, which will be held in Park City, Utah, January 22-28 2016.
Alvin's Harmononious World of Opposites follows a Japanese translator who appears normal to friends and colleagues.
But Alvin is anything but. He spies on his attractive neighbour, has a large panda collection and has a strange sludge sleeping from the walls of his apartment.
In The Tail Job, Nicholas Moore hires taxi driver Trevor to help catch his fiance cheating. With misunderstandings, and mistaken identity, these defective detectives find themselves on an adventure more dangerous than they bargained for.
Slamdance Film Festival was launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance and is...
Alvin.s Harmonious World of Opposites by director and screenwriter Platon Theodoris and The Tail Job by directors and screenwriters Bryan Moses, Daniel Millar have been announced in official competition at the festival, which will be held in Park City, Utah, January 22-28 2016.
Alvin's Harmononious World of Opposites follows a Japanese translator who appears normal to friends and colleagues.
But Alvin is anything but. He spies on his attractive neighbour, has a large panda collection and has a strange sludge sleeping from the walls of his apartment.
In The Tail Job, Nicholas Moore hires taxi driver Trevor to help catch his fiance cheating. With misunderstandings, and mistaken identity, these defective detectives find themselves on an adventure more dangerous than they bargained for.
Slamdance Film Festival was launched in 1995 as an alternative to Sundance and is...
- 12/7/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
All synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
All synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
- 11/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
Al synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.
All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.
Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.
“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.
“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”
Al synopses provided by the festival.
Narrative Features...
- 11/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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