Quorn Sept 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on September 12th, 2009
FAMILY FILM NIGHT
CATS & DOGS and THE DISH
Sat 12 September 2009
Quorn Guides Hall
Trees to be Sprayed With Green Paint
Posted by John Mannion on September 9th, 2009
‘The Mercury’ (Quorn) Thursday, September 15, 1950
TREES TO BE SPRAYED WITH GREEN PAINT
NOT QUITE RIGHT SHADE FOR COLOUR FILM
An American walked into a Waymouth Street, Adelaide engineering supplies firm this week and asked for a spray for spraying trees with green paint.
The sales assistant looked cautiously at the customer who went on to explain he was from the “Kangaroo” Film Unit and the trees in the Flinders Ranges near Port Augusta, the site of the new 20th Century Fox production weren’t quite the right shade of green for shooting the film in Technicolor.
One never knows what to expect next now that film-making has really come to South Australia.
Quorn August 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on August 15th, 2009
FILM NIGHT ~ FOLEY SPECIAL
HAPPY FEET and THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN
Sat 15 August 2009
Quorn Guides Hall
Quorn July 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on July 18th, 2009
FAMILY FILM NIGHT
THE MAGIC PUDDING and DAD & DAVE: ON OUR SELECTION
Saturday 18 July 2009
Guides Hall
Seventh Street Quorn Read the rest of this entry »
Film Maker in Residence 2009
Posted by Cindi Drennan on April 25th, 2009
The Flinders Ranges Bush Festival was established in 2007 by community members with the aim of bringing visitors to the community, developing skills and generating awareness of the region’s culture and heritage. It was recognised that film culture was of special interest and this became a significant highlight of the new festival, with Flinders Flicks (a recently formed film development society) providing screenings and workshops to the festival program.
In the second year of the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival, Flinders Flicks created an opportunity for a filmmaker in residence project by sourcing $600 funding support through Country Arts SA and $800 contributions from local community groups. This small amount of funding enabled local oral historian and emerging filmmaker, John Mannion, to come to Quorn to conduct interviews and record unique aspects of the town during the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival.
Quorn April 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on April 24th, 2009
Friday 24 April and Saturday 25 April 2009 – a public event during the Flinders Ranges Bush Festival 2009
Australian films showcase
Sunset Cinema at the Quorn Caravan Park and Quorn Railway Station
(Wet Weather venue is the Quorn Town Hall)
BYO chairs, etc, BYO Alcohol permitted.
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John Mack footage
Posted by John Mannion on April 21st, 2009
John Mack’s film footage of the World War Troop Trains was presented by John Mannion during the Film Maker in Residency 2009.
John Mack is in his nineties now, and has been a South Australian photographer and cinematographer. As a young bloke he worked in a photographic firm in Adelaide and began working with moving images soon after that. Mack became involved in the amateur cinema movement in South Australia during the 1930s and 1950s. During the Second World War he was an army staff sergeant and was posted to the Northern Territory where he was involved with the Australian Army Education Service. It was during this time that he filmed his footage of the troop trains moving through Quorn. Read the rest of this entry »
Jamestown March 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on March 27th, 2009
27 March 2009 – Local Produce presented at Jamestown Memorial Park, as part of the Bundaleer Forest Festival 2009.
Films screened include:
- documentaries made in the Flinders Ranges by John Mannion and Malcolm McKinnon
- Digital stories made by local people during the Media Resource Centre digital storytelling workshops, Port Augusta Re-imagines
- historic footage and experimental films from local film makers
Quorn March 2009
Posted by flinders flicks committee on March 14th, 2009
Green Themed films,
Outdoor Cinema at Quorn Caravan Park
March 14 2009
Australian Conservation Foundation “Telling the Truth”
A documentary showing Australians taking the initiative to promote environmental messages and actions in their communities.
THE 11TH HOUR (2007) directed by Nadia Conners
Presented by Leonard di Caprio, A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.
Film Sources
Posted by Cindi Drennan on January 23rd, 2009
This is a rough list of possible sources for films and film makers, to be compiled into better info later!
SA state library
ACMI Library
Media Resource Centre
National Film & Video Lending Service
Gordana Bacic – Big Screen
jo fleming 02 8202 0108 sydney short films
Australian Film Commission (Now part of Screen Australia) bec somerton cath mcintyre – project officers for doc / edu / short film contacts