Held at Cinema Augusta and at the Institute Theatre in Port Augusta, from the 5th – 9th November 2008.

Supported by Country Arts SA, Port Augusta City Council, Media Resource Centre, National Film and Sound Archive, In The Bin, Port Augusta Re-imagines.

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Wed 5 – Fri 7 Nov – IN THE BIN FILM MAKING WORKSHOP

Fri 7 Nov – IN THE BIN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Sat 8 Nov –

THE SHIRALEE

BIG STORIES SMALL TOWNS

TWIN RIVERS

JIVE-IN THEATRE

Sun 9 Nov

SUNDOWNERS

LOCAL PRODUCE

KANGAROO

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25th October 2008
at Quorn Guide Hall

THE BIG STEAL (1990) directed by Nadia Tass
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After Danny’s parents give him their beloved Nissan Cedric, Danny works up the courage to ask Joanna out on a date…. One problem! He tells her that he owns a Jaguar, and to prove otherwise, he trades in the Cedric for an early model Jag. At the car yard he is conned into believing he is getting the deal of the century by the salesman, Gordon “Farkas”.

TWO HANDS (1999) directed by Gregor Jordan
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl, with whom Ledger starts a romance on his trip.

12 July 2008 at the Quorn Youth Centre

Film Camp Flicks
screening films made at a film camp at Pichi Richi Park. Supported by Country Arts SA, Media Resource Centre.

MALCOLM (1986) directed by Nadia Tass
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, moves in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Franks help, turns to a life of crime.

12th June 2008 – Racing Recovery Flicks.
Quorn Town Hall.

SILVER BRUMBY (1998)
The Silver Brumby is about a Brumby called Thowra, who lives a wild life with his his friends, Wombat, Boon Boon and the rest. He gets up to adventures to help save his friends from the evil hunters.

BLUE FIRE LADY (1977) directed by Ross Dimsey
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father’s frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called “Blue Fire Lady”. “Blue Fire Lady” shows promise in Jenny’s hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When “Blue Fire Lady” is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.

MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982) directed by George Miller
A story about Jim Craig – an 18 year old who has recently lost his father in trying to capture ‘the colt from Old Regret’. While working on Harrison’s farm Jim falls in love with Harrison’s daughter Jessica. After Harrisons’s prize colt disappears a roundup of the brumbies in the highlands is going to be conducted with Clancy of the Overflow in the lead.

23 May 2008
Flinders Flicks screened Australian film Razzle Dazzle and Local Digital Stories at Quorn Youth Centre.

DIGITAL STORIES
Films made by Flinders Ranges residents during the Media Resource Centre’s Digital Stories project held as part of the Port Augusta Re-imagines programme in May 2008.

RAZZLE DAZZLE (2007) directed by Darren Ashton.
Australian mockumentary about youth dance competition. Who said saving the world can’t be entertaining?

The first Flinders Flicks events were held during the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival 2007, at the Quorn Caravan Park, on the 25 & 26 April 2008.

With the support of Big Screen Australia, two films were shown that had been made in the local area.

GALLIPOLI (1981) directed by Peter Weir
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.

LUCKY MILES (2007) directed by Michael Rowland.
An Indonesian fishing boat abandons a group of Iraqi and Cambodian men on a remote part of the Western Australian coast. While most are quickly rounded up, three men with little in common but their history of misfortune elude capture and begin an epic but confused journey drawn on by their hopes amplified by the empty desert.