The 60th Sydney Film Festival is here! Running over 12 days from June 5th-16th, the Festival screens features, documentaries, short films and animations from around the world in venues across the city including the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays, the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace in Cremorne and the Art Gallery of…
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The 59th Sydney Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday night 17th of June, with an Awards ceremony at the State Theatre. The Greek drama Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos was awarded the $60,000 cash prize for winning the Official Competition. The Dendy Award for Best Live Action Short went to Yardbird, directed by Michael Spiccia, and the Yoram Gross Animation Award went to The Maker, written…
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The 59th Annual Sydney Film Festival is currently under-way and Lip Magazine has a few double passes to three fantastic films to giveaway!
The 2011 Sydney Film Festival concluded on Sunday with the awards ceremony and a screening of the drama Beginners starring Ewan Macgregor. Life in Movement won the FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize and Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation won the Official Competition. Legendary director Chen Kaige served as the Jury President, and noted “we award a film [A Separation] which best…
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Courtney Dawson reviews the red carpet opening night event for the Sydney Film Festival
