Avalon Film Festival is running from 29 November to 1 December at Avalon Surf Club, Avalon Cinema and Avalon Golf Club.
The festival will open with a world premier of The Restraint by local Academy Award winning director David Denneen. Originally produced in 2006 and starring Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer, Denneen has recut and regraded the film to create a taught psychological thriller more in keeping with his original vision.
The festival will be showing films about the mythical land of Avalon – think King Arthur, Camelot or Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Also showing will be films with people whose name is Avalon, and films made by locals such as Under the Lino, the Bruce Goold story by Bill Leimbach and Morning of the Earth by Albie Morkel.
“There’s nothing like a film festival to bring a community together,” said Ben Welsh, film festival founder. “A shared emotional moment. A collective memory. A public (laugh out loud) or tear. And importantly, a celebration of this special place.”
In addition to the films, the festival will feature a series of talks by people in the business on the anatomy of film: casting, screenwriting, music and the like.
For information on the festival, visit avalonfilmfestival.co.
