MEDIA RELEASE 11 May 2009
NIGHT LIGHT: SHORT FILMS IN THE CITY
Calling all filmmakers! Festival Cairns 2009 takes creativity to the streets when it presents “Night Light – Short Films in the City”, a series of local, silent films projected onto existing walls, floors and interesting spaces around Cairns city and its cultural precincts.
All aspiring and established filmmakers, of all ages, are encouraged to take part by producing a short film made specifically for this first time event in the Festival Cairns’ program.
According to Festival Cairns Coordinator, Belinda Griffin, submissions can span all genres, albeit they must take cue from this year’s official theme, ‘Telling Our Stories’. “We want to see and show stories from all over the Cairns region, and as such we are asking filmmakers to ensure their production features a strong local connection in its visual portrayal.”
“This event is really about telling our unique stories, which could mean either referencing our rich history through the images supplied courtesy of the Cairns Historical Society, or creating vignettes of life in TNQ today. Or a combination of both!”
“In short, this project will reflect back to us who we are and how we live, in a visually interactive and exciting way. Aside from the theme, the other criteria for entry is that the films are silent, between one and three minutes in duration, and that the footage has never been shown before in its entirety,” she said.
The final selection of films will screen on a looped reel, after dark throughout Festival Cairns that rolls out between Friday 21 August and Sunday 6 September, and will appear anywhere from the side of a building to a shop front in the CBD.
Entries must be submitted by 4pm, Monday 15 June 2009.
For more information and entry pack contact Night Light: Short Films in the City Coordinator, Annaliese Ciel Walker at Tanks Arts Centre: Ph: 4032 6600 – Email: a.walker@cairns.qld.gov.au
The opening of a new Green Island jetty on 26 May, 1962 was established as the first annual Cairns Tourist Festival, and renamed ‘Fun In The Sun’ the following year. Since then Tropical North Queensland’s most significant annual celebration, now in its 47th year, has experienced a number of changes including its re-launch in the early nineties as ‘Reef Festival’ before its dynamic incarnation in 2002 as ‘Festival Cairns’.
This year Festival Cairns begins a new chapter. For the first time in many years it will be managed and directed by its founding organisation, Cairns Regional Council; who last month, unveiled details of its vision to deliver a reinvigorated, brighter and bolder event program spanning visual and performing arts, culture and entertainment – showcasing the city’s key cultural precincts with a mix of free and ticketed events.
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For more information:
Belinda Griffin, Festival Cairns Coordinator
T: 07 4044 3593 M: 0407 966 530 E: festival@cairns.qld.gov.au
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