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Byron Bay International Film Festival 2019
Media Kit
September 2019
Media and industry friends, We’d love your help to get the word out about BBFF 2019 18 – 27 October. We know you’re busy, so we’ve prepared some material. In this kit: Background Information………………………… 2 Locations…………………………………………… 5 Film Selections…………………………………….. 7 Programming……………………………………… 10 Image Gallery…………………………………….. 11 Social Media………………………………………. 12 The full program and tickets are available Thursday 26th October. To be added to our media list email: pr@bbff.com.au Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further information or ticket giveaways. Alex Bartlett| Communications Manager pr@bbff.com.au| +61412926831
Background Information BBFF Conception Established as a community event in 2005 with only 55 Australian films, the Byron Bay International Film Festival, has grown exponentially into a 10-day event, expanding across new digital platforms, attracting world-renowned industry leaders and international films stars. With trademark ethics and selectivity BBFF has developed a unique culture and flourishing international reputation that sees both esteemed international filmmakers and emerging artists all vying for a place in its program. Embracing a down to earth, relaxed, warm and inclusive vibe, BBFF has become a hub for celebrities and industry professionals at all stages of their careers to come along, be themselves, mingle, spark ideas, and collaborate. BBFF 2019 The 13th Byron Bay International Film Festival will be a platform for some of the world’s most outstanding film talent, showcasing a unique and diverse program of entertaining, inspiring and thought-provoking films. It’s a festival that fuses artistry, education and innovation, enhancing our worldview and collective social dialogue through the power and storytelling of film. Each year the festival has provided attendees with the opportunity to not only see brilliant films and national premieres but be a part of an exceptional industry program of seminars, workshops, networking and marketplace events with leading Australian and international speakers and delegates. As well as presenting awards to the most outstanding films of various categories including Best Short Film, Best Music Documentary, Best Young Australian filmmaker and more. BBFF has also been showcasing Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Experiences since 2013 with awards for Best Cinematic and Interactive VR experience, celebrating some of the most innovative and immersive films to date.
BBFF 2019 Team Festival Director- J’aimee Skippon-Volke Born in Australia, J’aimee Skippon-Volke has developed a truly international perspective, spending much of her upbringing travelling the globe. Her father worked in television and moved the family from Australia to New Zealand and then to Thatcherite Britain, where the curtains opened on J’aimee’s love of underground cinema. As a teen growing up in Covent Garden in central London she discovered the cinematic offerings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a hub of raw talent for contemporary arthouse film. Her appetite for film was further fueled by the infamous Scala Cinema in Kings Cross and its all- night marathon screening of cult classics. J’aimee went on to work with producers and executive producers in the television industry. After a stint in the US, she settled in Byron Bay, Australia, to raise her family, and became actively involved in the community. Starting out behind the scenes of BBFF, she stepped up to the role of Festival Director and in 2007 expanded the festival to international status to match Byron Bay’s international community. J’aimee’s most recent role is as CEO of Creative Reality, a production company focused on creating innovative VR content which enables the growth of the industry.
Location and Venues Byron Bay With world-class beaches only a short stroll from festival venues, World Heritage rainforests, and national parks a short drive away, Byron Bay provides a glorious backdrop for BBFF2019. A history of open-mindedness and creativity has firmly placed Byron Bay on the world map as a destination for people seeking a positive change in lifestyle or perspective. A progressive place where new technologies and practices are embraced, and green awareness and eco living are promoted, Byron is a place where quality of life sits high on the community’s list of priorities. On the surface Byron Bay offers the tropical beauty of a pacific island, although at its core the appeal of Bryon comes from the vibe. It’s the kind of place that you can catch the perfect set in the morning, soak up the live music along the streets, refine your yoga practice at sunset and enjoy an incredible meal with the colourful community.
Festival Venues with Character
Palace Cinema - Byron Bay presents a unique space for showcasing
cabarets, live shows and film.
Brand new in Byron this year, and the
new home of our Red Carpet Opening Brunswick picture house has become
Night Gala, The Palace adds a true one the most loved screening venues for
sense of Hollywood to BBFF 2019. BBFF with its quirky retro vibe and
eccentric reputation exciting Festival
Relax and pass the popcorn in total
goes for the past few years.
movie-lovers-heaven. With luxurious
handcrafted seats and state-of-the-art
digital projection and sound technology,
Pighouse Flicks - Byron Bay
the festival experience will be enhanced
like never before. Looking for a mind escape? Relax and
enter another world for a couple of
blissful, carefree hours at Pighouse flicks.
Byron Theatre - Byron Bay Community
First established in 1995 Pighouse has
Centre
become a gem within the Byron
community. This venue has been
Byron Community Centre is a not for screening the best films from BBFF for
profit social enterprise, overseen by the over 6 years. Providing festival goers with
Byron Bay Communication Association. the ultimate experience in cinema
The center has been running for 31 years technology and comfort. The venue is
and home of the Byron Market Office, known as the home for all international,
Byron Theatre, Community Projects blockbuster and art-house films.
Office, Byron Shire Volunteering and Bay
Fm.
The Regent – Murwillumbah
This is the place to see and meet the
people behind the films, at the centre of
Built in 1974, The Regent Cinema
Q&A sessions as well as the renowned
Murwillumbah still retains its beauty and
ABC News Filmmakers’ Breakfast
old features from the era, The Cinema
offers a range of both international art
house film and big Hollywood films.
Brunswick Picture House
A BBFF venue partner since 2012 the
The Brunswick Picture House, after lying
Regent will once again be screening the
dormant for 30 years, was unveiled new
very best films of BBFF2019. Festival goers
and improved in March 2016. Oozing
can gain a unique film experience in a
retro charm this historical picture house
traditional and evocative setting.Film Selection – Recently Announced
Documentaries
Out Deh For Sama
Bakersteez is a rapper, embarking on an For Sama is both an intimate and epic
international career; Shama is journey into the female experience of
determined to be Jamaica’s first pro- war. A love letter from a young mother to
surfer; ghetto-raised Romar is seeking her daughter, the film tells the story of
connection through sport. These three Waad al-Kateab's life through five years
young men show the difficulties and of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she
splendours of Jamaican life, providing falls in love, gets married and gives birth
the framework for a portrait of a to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict
generation in flux. rises around her.
She Is The Ocean The Leunig Fragments
From Innesse Blohina, the acclaimed Almost everyone in Australia will have
director of On the Wave, the award- seen a Leunig cartoon, but how much
do we know about the man behind the
winning documentary about surfing,
witty, wistful and sometimes scathing
comes this study of nine extraordinary
pen? Despite being a national treasure,
women, aged between 12 and 83, who and a huge influence on Australian
share one thing in common: a profound culture, Michael Leunig is largely
love of the sea. Among them are surfers, unknown, and may not be the “Leunig”
free-divers, a marine biologist, a cliff we think he is. Writer and director Kasimir
diver, all have chosen to make the Burgess set out to uncover the layers
around Leunig through fragments about
ocean the centre of their physical,
his life and illustrations from his art and
philosophical and professional lives. poetry. Outtakes included, with poetry
Blohina thus creates a portrait of what from Sam Neil.
could be a metaphor for one woman’s
ocean life through all her ages.Australian Films
Pacifico beauty of these vast, stunning
landscapes and adds a personal
Two friends quit their jobs, book flights to
reflection from Torren about the
America, buy an old car and set off on
challenges and rewards.
the journey of a lifetime. For the next two
years, Christian and Chris chased swells,
climbed mountains, immersed In My Blood it Runs
themselves in local cultures, and spent as
much time as possible in nature. In My Blood It Runs offers a rare and
compelling insight into the world of a 10-
The film about their adventure offers an year-old Arrernte and Garrwa boy,
insight into long-term travel and how Dujuan, who has been passed on a gift
engaging with new cultures and from his grandfather as a Traditional
environments can widen our Healer. We see him apply his powers,
perspectives and deepen our then become turned off and humiliated
understanding of the world around us. by the Euro-centric lessons in the
classroom and disturbed by television
reports about Don Dale detention
Kifaru
centre. Concern grows that his
Tracking extinction in real time, Kifaru misbehaving will take him down the
provides a devastating but essential tragically familiar path for Aboriginal
awareness of the consequences of boys that leads to prison. Since the film
human behaviour. The film documents was made Dujuan, now 12, has spoken in
the final years of the last male northern front of the Human Rights Council at the
white rhino, a “kifaru” named Sudan, United Nations in Geneva, calling for the
and the experiences of the rangers that age of criminal responsibility to be raised
protect and care for him. from 10 to 14.
Nordurland CONTINUUM 01 – South in Self Exile
Three friends from the Northern Rivers of From Byron Bay landscape artist Jack
NSW Australia, surfers Torren Martyn and Bailey comes this abstract visual and
Laurie Towner, and needESSENTIALS sonic essay, recorded during a six-week
founder and designer Ryan Scanlon, journey traversing South America’s
travel to isolated coastlines to surf in the broken spine – a cinematic meditation
harsh, freezing waters of the North that takes the audience through the
Atlantic. Glaciers, mountains and wormhole into an alternate vantage
powerful icy surf all come to life in this point on the interface between man and
adventure to the far north. A short film by the world.
local Ishka Folkwell that captures theDrama/ International
Measure For Measure Little Monsters
Less a modern adaptation than a Lupita Nyong’o is utterly charming in this
thematically-inspired reimagining of comedy horror film shot in Sydney and
Shakespeare’s problem play, Measure featuring Taylor Swift songs, nursery
for Measure deftly juggles the criminality
rhymes, bloodthirsty zombies and non-
and viciousness of Melbourne’s gritty
underworld with young, and innocent, stop gags. Written and directed by Abe
love. Starring Hugo Weaving. Forsyth (Down Under)
Honeyland This World Won’t Break
Two worlds collide in this dramatic
Texan musician Wes Milligan can’t catch
documentary which picked up the World
a break. He writes heartbreakingly
Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
beautiful country blues songs and
2019. Set in the bleak mountains of North
performs them with a dazzling guitar
Macedonia it focuses on the last female
style, but the radio station won’t play
beekeeper in Europe surviving in an
them, his ex-wife won’t pick up the
abandoned village, with only her ageing
phone and he can’t make the rent.
mother and a dog for company. She
Paralysed by the past and self-doubt,
lives in harmony until a disruptive family
Wes plays for beer money in crummy
sets up nearby and adopts beekeeping
bars on the fringes of Dallas.
then yields to market forces.
Trailers and more
For official Trailers and BBFF2019 behind the scene clips head to, which is being updated
weekly with new content
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-s5khrpMtbhSI-oPAMnP6wEvent Programming Festival Program Official program available on Thursday 26th October. Email pr@bbff.com.au BBFF2019 Schools program Each year BBFF holds the BBFF Schools Program, a program designed to captivate and excite primary and secondary school children with the magic of storytelling through film. The Program is at its core an educational experience designed and created by an educational professional, with excitement for learning in mind. Both student and teachers are involved in the program with resource kits and educational provided to teacher to assist in created a cohesive learning experience for all attending students. BBFF2019 School Program will be held in March 2020 giving schools the perfect opportunity during the year for an exciting, entertaining and enriching Big Screen Experience. For more information on BBFF2019 Schools program visit www.bbff.com.au/schools
ASSETS AND MORE INFORMATION Press Kits and Image Gallery For more information, images and specific image request please contact pr@bbff.com.au. Media Releases Click here to read some of our most recent Media Releases.
Social Media We want to drive the conversation around our amazing films, using #BBFF2019. We will be announcing our official selections, as well as key partners, competitions and tickets. If you would like to be featured as a partner or tag us, please use the following guidelines. Twitter @byronfilmfest #BBFF2019 The countdown is on to Australia’s largest regional film fest @ByronFilmFest. A 10 day fiesta of cinema, VR and industry heavyweights! Tickets are available now at http://tix.bbff.com.au/events #BBFF2019 Facebook BYRON BAY FILM FESTIVAL 2019 | PROGRAM & TICKETS The countdown is on to Byron Bay International Film Festival 18 - 27 October, check out the full program from Echo Publications! This truly is international cinema at its finest, surrounded by the beauty that is Byron Bay. **** Link to update Thurs 26th Instagram @byronbayfilmfestival https://instagram.com/byronbayfilmfestival The countdown is on to Australia’s largest regional film festival, Byron Bay International Film Festival, October 18 –27 #bbff2019 Please request assets at pr@bbff.com.au
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