Film Screening :
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
(includes interval)
Doors @ 6:30pm | Screening from 7:00pm

Mountainfilm on Tour brings you a selection of the best short films from the renowned Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Join us on this expedition, where the magic of film, art, and ideas will transport you to a world pulsing with adventure and the potential to create a better world.

Mountainfilm on Tour presented by Osprey  is coming to Australia starting 8th October 2024. Join us for an evening of inspiring and captivating films handpicked from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado.

Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. The annual festival is held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, CO. Mountainfilm is a dynamic nonprofit organization and festival that celebrates stories of indomitable spirit and aims to inspire audiences through film, art and ideas. 

Mountainfilm on Tour will feature a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and engaging documentary short films that align with Mountainfilm’s mission to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. A Mountainfilm presenter will guide the audience through the program providing insight on the films, filmmakers and subjects.

TICKETS : 
Adult $32.79 (incl BF)
Concession $26.60 (incl BF)
Family & Group Ticket Options

Image Courtesy of Mountainfilm on Tour
Image Courtesy of Mountainfilm on Tour

Film Screening :
Friday 27 September 2024, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
(includes interval)
Doors @ 7:00pm | Screening from 7:30pm

The Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) returns for its eighth year, celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. 

Get ready for an adrenaline-fueled showcase of courage and triumph that will ignite your spirit.
Don’t miss this unforgettable adventure!

Every year, our unique films are carefully chosen to show awesome women achieving their personally adventurous goals. Being adventurous doesn’t always mean being the fastest, going the highest, or doing the most extreme things. Adventure for most of us is stepping outside our comfort zone and climbing our own Everest. The films showcase real stories about women from a variety of cultures and sports around the world.

TICKETS : 
Adult $28
Concession $22

  • Family & Group Ticket Options

Film Screening :
Friday 30 August 2024, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
(includes interval)
Doors @ 7:00pm | Screening from 7:30pm

The Rise Fly Fishing Film Tour is back for its 18th Annual Aeason, now an official part of the world Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T)

This film tour brings you a top notch selection of short films that are sure to get you fired up for the fly fishing season.

Get ready to reel in the excitement with this selection of captivating films: The Backcountry Dream, Visibility, What Lies Above, Only the Salmon Know, Rods, Rolls & Reality On The Soča, Transitions – The Bow, and A Line in the Sand.

The Fly Fishing Film Tour is the original and largest fly fishing film event of its kind in the world and is now partnered with local fly fishing film festival RISE to bring you even more fly fishing. Come for the action and stay for the giveaways and camaraderie that will feed your fishing addiction.

TICKETS : 
Adult $38.99
Concession $33.83

  • Family & Group Ticket Options

Film Screening :
Thursday 29 August 2024, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
(includes interval)
Doors @ 6:30pm | Screening from 7:00pm

2024 marks the tenth year of the RunNation Film Festival

The festival is an original, inspiring event attended by running celebrities, thousands of runners and non-runners around Australia, New Zealand & many parts of the world. RunNation receive film submissions from Australia and across the globe and curate them into an incredible two-hour screening.

It is not just about running; It is about celebrating the human spirit, using running as a storytelling medium.

TICKETS : 
Adult $30
Concession $25

Film Screening :
Saturday 13 July 2024 @ 8:00pm
Doors & Cafe from 7:00pm | Screening from 8:00pm

Flickerfest, celebrating 33 years bringing you the Best of Australian Shorts. ‘Everyone’s Invited!’

Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.

Flickerfest screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January, with selected highlights of the most entertaining and innovative short films from Australia & around the world touring the country on a 40 venue national tour from Feb – Oct 2024.  

Flickerfest returns with this annual one-off chance to see the Best of Australian Shorts programme officially selected for Flickerfest National Tour, before these films continue their journey around the world.

TICKETS : 
Single Session :
General Admission $18
(+BF)
Concession $15 (+BF)

of BOTH SESSIONS : 
General Admission $32
(+BF)
Concession $27 (+BF)



Best of Australian Shorts : 2024 Tour

Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 123 min | Classification: Under 15yrs to be w/adult

Darwin Story

Lee returns to Darwin from London when her mum is taken ill. After a chance encounter, there’s an opportunity to reflect on the past, but is she ready to think differently about the beautiful place she calls home?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Natasha Tonkin | Writer: Natasha Tonkin | Producer: Yeshen Venema, Eero Heinonen | Runtime: 9min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Good Grief

Brandon is visited by his recently deceased girlfriend and discovers that haunting can have its advantages. Brandon and his sheet ghost girlfriend dive into domestic bliss and Brandon’s life improves with the unconditional support of his sheet ghost love. But ghosts become stuck in the In-Between for a reason and while Brandon thinks that his sheet ghost bae’s remaining duty is to lift him up, this sheet ghost honey has other ideas about crossing over to the afterlife. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Hamish Macgregor | Writer: Lewis Mullholland | Producer: Grace Sarah Quinn, Hamish Roderick Macgregor, Lewis Mullholland | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Heart Throb

18 year old Gray is in love with his best friend Angelo, but his desire for social media stardom complicates things. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Greta Nash | Writer: Greta Nash | Producer: Gillian Crosby, Gabrielle McLeod | Runtime: 15min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Lean In

Moral-abiding feminist comedian, Rach, receives a massive blow after a show when she is rejected by the agent she was so hungry for. Rach’s brother Benny takes her out to his work Christmas drinks as a means to cheer her up. But in his world of sales bro’s Rach is pushed to see if she’s got the “tenacity” to survive in their world. Will she flip on her morals and throw her integrity to the wind to step up to their plate? WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Lucy Coleman | Writer: Lucy Coleman | Producer: Lucy Coleman, Lucy Hayes, Deanne Weir, Alice Willison, Kartanya Maynard | Runtime: 17min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Favourites

Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip turns deadly. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Nick Russell | Writer: Nick Russell, Nick Musgrove | Producer: Nick Russell | Runtime: 5min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Finding Home

Finding Home tells the extraordinary story of Yousef Mohammadi, who as a young Afghani boy was forced to flee from his home country to avoid the dangers of war. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Lester Jones | Writer: Lester Jones | Runtime: 11min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Nursery

Single-mother Helen and her son Jordan embark on an afternoon drive, things soon spiral out of control, tension builds between the two as they fight to live their own lives as part of their codependent relationship. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Max Pollard | Writer: Max Pollard | Producer: Naomi Mendoza | Runtime: 13min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Cold Water

Inspired by true events. Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby. Director: Jay Perry, Shaun Perry | Writer: Jay Perry, Shaun Perry | Producer: Brayden Alden | Runtime: 20min | Year: 2023 } Country: Australia

Yeah The Boys

Yeah the Boys follows six young Aussie men as they sink beers over an afternoon and well into the night. Emoting only through movement; lewd gestures, chokeholds, crowd surfs, and chugging shoeys, they somehow say everything without uttering a single word. Equal parts larrikin, brutal, and tender, this choreographic short film scored by The Avalanches is an observation of Australian masculine identity and our nation’s relationship with drinking culture. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Stefan Hunt | Writer: Vanessa Marian Varghese | Producer: Alex Taussig | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Ashes

Bereft after the loss of her beloved Dad James, Frances misses the appointment to pick up his ashes. Through a bizarre posthumous prank, can James rectify his daughter’s habitual lateness, even after he’s gone? A darkly comedic story about grief, tough love, and the unexpected ways those who have passed continue to influence us. Director: Georgina Haig | Writer: Georgina Haig | Producer: Georgina Haig, Dean Francis, Daisy Betts-Miller, Charmaine Kuhn | Runtime: 13min | Year: 2023 | Country: Australia

Film Screening :
Friday 12 July 2024 @ 8:00pm
Doors & Cafe from 7:00pm | Screening from 8:00pm

Flickerfest, celebrating 33 years bringing you the Best of International Shorts. ‘Everyone’s Invited!’

Celebrating its 33rd year, Flickerfest, Australia’s only Academy® Award and BAFTA qualifying short film festival, and the country’s largest Australian & International short film competition, screens the best of shorts from Australia and the world, selected from 3,400 entries; ensuring the presentation of A-list short film programmes recognised amongst the best in the world.

Flickerfest screens for 10 days under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in January, with selected highlights of the most entertaining and innovative short films from Australia & around the world touring the country on a 40 venue national tour from Feb – Oct 2024.  

TICKETS : 
Single Session :
General Admission $18
(+BF)
Concession $15 (+BF)

of BOTH SESSIONS : 
General Admission $32
(+BF)
Concession $27 (+BF)



Best of International Shorts : 2024 Tour

Screening: On Tour | Running Time: 120 min | Classification: Under 15yrs to be w/adult

On The 8th Day

It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois | Writer: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois | Producer: Carlos De Carvalho | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: France

Clodagh

A lonely priest’s housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Portia A. Buckley | Writer: Michael Lindley | Producer: Serena Armitage, Michael Lindley | Runtime: 17min | Year: 2023 | Country: Ireland

Stella

Stella is out for a special date with her husband Stanley, whose health and mind are failing. She yearns for connection, capturing brief moments of lucidity before he slips away, again.  One final dance recalls memories of their first, and Stella accepts that their life together is ending. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Alison Titulaer | Writer: Alison Titulaer | Producer: Emma Mortimer | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: New Zealand

The Masterpiece

Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects. Once there, Leo looks at them collecting objects with mistrust, until they see the scrap dealers have something they want. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Àlex Lora | Writer: Lluis Quilez, Alfonso Amador | Producer: Sandra Trave, Lluis Quilez | Runtime: 20min | Year: 2023 | Country: Spain

A Day In The Life Of A Female Frame

While a large painting of a naked woman is being transported from the studio to the exhibition, she seems to fall victim to a harsh and masculine outside world. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Ilke Paddenburg | Writer: Ilke Paddenburg | Producer: Rachel van Bommel, Ivo Siebum, Hanna van Vliet, Hannah van Helden, Hannah Schwarz | Runtime: 7min | Year: 2023 | Country: Netherlands

My Name is Edgar and I Have a Cow

Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Filip DIVIAK | Producer: Bara Prikaska, Zuzana Mistrikova | Runtime: 8min | Year: 2023 | Country: Czech Republic

My Week With Maisy

Mrs Foster, a retired, middle-class Daily Mail reader, whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs is to have to share the treatment room with a ‘know-it-all child’ who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope. WORLD PREMIERE | Director: Mika Simmons | Writer: Mark Oxtoby | Producer: Georgina French | Runtime: 18min| Year: 2023 | Country: United Kingdom

Last Days Of Summer

A recurring mysterious sound from mountains in the Himalaya is heard only by two curious young shepherds. Unable to convince the villagers of the scary nature of such sound, they journey into the unknown to unravel the mystery. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Stenzin Tankong | Writer: Stenzin Tankong, Jigmet Wangchuk | Producer: Flore Cavigneaux, Jérôme Blesson, Stenzin Tankong, Urgain Phuntsog | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: India

The Film Might Be White

A final feedback meeting is being held before the release of an art school’s new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting suddenly escalates into a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved, and above all – whose fault it is. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE | Director: Sebastian Johansson Micci | Writer: Sebastian Johansson Micci, Manne Indahl | Producer: Manne Indahl, Sebastian Johansson Micci | Runtime: 14min | Year: 2023 | Country: Sweden

Film Screening :
Wednesday 29 May 2024, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
(includes interval)
Doors @ 6:30pm | Screening from 7:00pm

Warren Miller’s ALL TIME is bringing 74 years of filmmaking reimagined to a theatre near you this May.

This season, it’s all about good turns and good snow on good hills with good people. Narrated by Jonny Moseley, ALL TIME dives deep into elements that Warren himself first identified as the stuff of which snowy dreams are made. From the birth of ski towns like Sun Valley and Aspen to icons and innovators like the original hotdoggers, the film brings the best of seven decades along with humor and inspiration from today—featuring Maine’s finest athlete, Donny Pelletier, and the next generation of skiers and riders at Woodward Park City.

In addition to the main feature from Warren Miller, this year’s tour will exhibit 2 local films from presenting partner Arc’teryx. Delve deep into what makes winter so special as we share stories from local film makers Divya Gordon and Taylor Bennie-Faull. This will serve as the perfect entree to the two-year party for Warren Miller’s  75 seasons on snow. 

TICKETS : 
Adult $37.45
Concession $32.28

Warren Miller (1951). Sun Valley. Image Credit Sun Valley PR
Film Still featuring athlete Brian Rice.


“Monkey Magic with Destined One” is a unique musical stage comedy that reinterprets the classic “Journey to the West” with modern issues and Tasmanian landscapes. This three-act play follows Tripitaka, the Monkey King, and Pigsy in a humorous, environmentally-conscious adventure, enhanced by live music and local Tasmanian artistry.

2024: Hilarious Original Musical Stage Comedy – A Must-See for Comedy Lovers!

Introducing “Monkey Magic with Destined One,” a brand-new stage musical comedy that reimagines the classic Journey to the West (MONKEY MAGIC), seamlessly blending it with contemporary issues and the enchanting landscapes of Tasmania. This innovative production brings together the art of theater and live music to transport an Eastern myth onto the stage, creating a fresh and original stage musical comedy.

Spanning three acts, the story primarily follows Tripitaka, the Monkey King, and Pigsy on a whimsical and high-energy journey to find their destined ones and save nature. Throughout the performance, the narrative skillfully addresses real-world environmental concerns and the complexities of interpersonal trust through a witty and humorous artistic lens. Furthermore, the live music elements are a standout feature of this theatrical masterpiece, adding an extra layer of magic to the entire experience.

All elements of this show is created, curated and developed by Tasmanian local artists.

Monkey Magic with a Destined One Highlights:

– Creativity: **Immerse yourself in the innovative and creative retelling of a mythological narrative.

– Classic Homage:** Experience a respectful nod to the iconic moments from “Monkey Magic.”

– Cultural Fusion:** Witness the infusion of Eastern cultural elements, including Peking Opera and martial arts, creating a unique and authentic stage experience.

– Live Musical Experience:** Be enchanted by the live music performed by the “Purple Passion” band, featuring specially adapted compositions premiering on the same day.

– Comedic Appeal:** Dive into a comedic journey, promising a light and humorous experience suitable for diverse audiences.

“Monkey Magic with a Destined One” Synopsis:

Introducing a brand-new stage musical comedy that ingeniously blends the classic “Monkey Magic” with contemporary issues against the enchanting backdrop of Tasmania. Join Tripitaka, the Monkey King, and Pigsy on a whimsical journey spanning three acts as they seek their destined ones and strive to save nature. This theatrical masterpiece addresses real-world environmental concerns with humour and wit, accompanied by the captivating live music of the “Purple Passion” band.

Before You Hit ‘Buy Ticket’:

This production is a completely fictional narrative, crafted without any factual basis. In our meticulous adaptation, all religious elements from the original source have been purposefully excluded to provide an environment free from religious content.

Music Support: Purple Passion

Technical Support: Olimedia Events

Thursday 9 March 2023
7pm
The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
Enter via Wooby’s Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$10 + bf


The premiere screening of Definition – A Year To Remember, followed by a Q&A with Gus Leighton and the Artgym Team is back!


Join us for an inspiring evening at the premiere screening of “definition,” a mini-documentary about musician Angus Leighton that encourages us to change how we feel about our bodies and ourselves.

Gus decided to lose weight after being told he was at risk of a heart attack. Since January 2022, he has dropped just under 100 kilograms. More importantly, the twenty-something musician and music teacher has vastly improved his strength, energy and cardio fitness. and he’s feeling more optimistic than he has for years.

Polynesian wayfinding is alive in the Solomon Islands

“We are the crew of Lata, the Polynesian culture-hero who built the first vaka (oceanic voyaging canoe) and navigated across the Pacific.
We use only the ancient designs, materials, and methods of Lata, and from Lataʻs story we learn how to avoid making big mistakes. We invite everyone to reconnect with ancestors and sustainable lifeways. Join us in the real Moana!”

Films & Screening Times
Sunday 12 February 2023 @ 4:00pm (57 minutes)

Free Event