INAUGRAL KEPPEL COAST FLIX FESTIVAL
August 5th-7th 2016 ~Australian Theme
August 5th-7th 2016 ~Australian Theme
Keppel Coast Flix has been providing the local community with a wide range of films at their monthly film nights and given it's ever increasing success, we are proud to announce our first annual film festival!
Running over the weekend for 5th, 6th and 7th August 2016, the theme for the inaugural festival is a focus on Australian films, with a selection of movies to entertain and delight all our diverse range of movie goers. The festival will open on the night of Friday 5th July with a Gala themed event - walk the red carpet, sip a complimentary glass of champagne and nibble on some delicious canapes while mingling with fellow film buffs. The opening night film "Goldstone" will be introduced via video by Rockhampton local Alex Russell, who has one of the lead roles in the film.
The weekend will include a family film on Saturday afternoon of "Satellite Boy", a heartfelt, moving and uplifting story about a young boy's journey to save his home. Saturday nights feature film is "The Daughter, which follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before. Our Sunday movie will be a step back in time with a retro feature where you can watch the haunting Picnic at Hanging Rock*" back on the big screen where it belongs.
Keppel Coast Flix has been providing the local community with a wide range of films at their monthly film nights and given it's ever increasing success, we are proud to announce our first annual film festival!
Running over the weekend for 5th, 6th and 7th August 2016, the theme for the inaugural festival is a focus on Australian films, with a selection of movies to entertain and delight all our diverse range of movie goers. The festival will open on the night of Friday 5th July with a Gala themed event - walk the red carpet, sip a complimentary glass of champagne and nibble on some delicious canapes while mingling with fellow film buffs. The opening night film "Goldstone" will be introduced via video by Rockhampton local Alex Russell, who has one of the lead roles in the film.
The weekend will include a family film on Saturday afternoon of "Satellite Boy", a heartfelt, moving and uplifting story about a young boy's journey to save his home. Saturday nights feature film is "The Daughter, which follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before. Our Sunday movie will be a step back in time with a retro feature where you can watch the haunting Picnic at Hanging Rock*" back on the big screen where it belongs.
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TICKETING INFORMATION
Friday Night Gala Event: $25 (no discounts) Sat/Sun Afternoon Movie Tickets - Adult: $15 (KCA/Rocky Flicks members $10) - Child: $10 (KCA/Rocky Flicks members $5) Saturday Night Movie Ticket - Adult $15, KCA/Rocky Flix $10 Festival Season Pass - tickets to all four film events: $60 (save $10) (KCA/Rocky Flicks members $45 - save $10) |
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR.
(Cash only) Booking online closes 2 hours before film opening. |
PROGRAM
OPENING NIGHT FILM - FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST - 7:30PM
GOLDSTONE (2016)
Rated M. Running time: 1hr 50min. Tickets $25. Doors open 6:30pm.
Themed Gala Event night - red carpet, champagne on arrival, canapes plus a video introduction by star of the movie and local Rocky boy Alex Russell.
Aboriginal detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on the trail of a missing person. He is immediately arrested for drunk driving by young local cop Josh.
When Jay’s motel room is blasted with gunfire, it becomes clear that something larger is at play in the district. Jay and Josh struggle to overcome their mutual distrust to uncover the unpleasant truth.
What seems like a simple light duties investigation opens into a web of crime and corruption in the establishment that controls the town, the local mine and the local Aboriginal land council.
Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
“He’s someone of Indigenous background but upholding white law in an ever-changing political landscape where Indigenous people are being tempted with corruption at a level that we haven’t seen before, which is largely what Goldstone explores,” explains director Ivan Sen
View the trailer: youtu.be/3pLj_oltywY
GOLDSTONE (2016)
Rated M. Running time: 1hr 50min. Tickets $25. Doors open 6:30pm.
Themed Gala Event night - red carpet, champagne on arrival, canapes plus a video introduction by star of the movie and local Rocky boy Alex Russell.
Aboriginal detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on the trail of a missing person. He is immediately arrested for drunk driving by young local cop Josh.
When Jay’s motel room is blasted with gunfire, it becomes clear that something larger is at play in the district. Jay and Josh struggle to overcome their mutual distrust to uncover the unpleasant truth.
What seems like a simple light duties investigation opens into a web of crime and corruption in the establishment that controls the town, the local mine and the local Aboriginal land council.
Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
“He’s someone of Indigenous background but upholding white law in an ever-changing political landscape where Indigenous people are being tempted with corruption at a level that we haven’t seen before, which is largely what Goldstone explores,” explains director Ivan Sen
View the trailer: youtu.be/3pLj_oltywY
FAMILY FILM - SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST - 3:30PM
SATELLITE BOY (2013)
Rated PG. Running time: 1hr 30min. Snacks available to purchase. Doors open 3pm.
Catriona McKenzie's directorial feature debut is a heartfelt, moving and uplifting story about a young boy's journey to save his home and ultimately himself. Satellite Boy follows Pete, a 12 year old Aboriginal boy who lives with his elderly grandfather, Old Jagamarra (Gulpilil). Home is the abandoned outdoor cinema in the outback town of Wyndham. When it is threatened with demolition, Pete sees his world in jeopardy and sets off for the city. He is joined by his friend Kalmain, who has his own reasons for leaving town. Together the boys travel through epic and stunning Kimberley country and when they get lost in the bush, Pete has to remember some of the old Aboriginal bush skills his grandfather taught him for them to survive.
Fable-like in its storytelling, it shows a world torn between old and new, tradition and progress, nature and technology. Celebrating the importance of family, true friendship and cultural and spiritual identity, Satellite Boy is captivating and affecting.
View the trailer: youtu.be/3pLj_oltywY
SATELLITE BOY (2013)
Rated PG. Running time: 1hr 30min. Snacks available to purchase. Doors open 3pm.
Catriona McKenzie's directorial feature debut is a heartfelt, moving and uplifting story about a young boy's journey to save his home and ultimately himself. Satellite Boy follows Pete, a 12 year old Aboriginal boy who lives with his elderly grandfather, Old Jagamarra (Gulpilil). Home is the abandoned outdoor cinema in the outback town of Wyndham. When it is threatened with demolition, Pete sees his world in jeopardy and sets off for the city. He is joined by his friend Kalmain, who has his own reasons for leaving town. Together the boys travel through epic and stunning Kimberley country and when they get lost in the bush, Pete has to remember some of the old Aboriginal bush skills his grandfather taught him for them to survive.
Fable-like in its storytelling, it shows a world torn between old and new, tradition and progress, nature and technology. Celebrating the importance of family, true friendship and cultural and spiritual identity, Satellite Boy is captivating and affecting.
View the trailer: youtu.be/3pLj_oltywY
FEATURE FILM - SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST - 7:30PM
THE DAUGHTER (2015)
Rated M. Running time: 1hr 36min. Bar operating. Doors open 6:30pm.
In the last days of a dying logging town Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry's wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry's timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver's wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver's family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
View the trailer: youtu.be/pSse2RIapEA
THE DAUGHTER (2015)
Rated M. Running time: 1hr 36min. Bar operating. Doors open 6:30pm.
In the last days of a dying logging town Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry's wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry's timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver's wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver's family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
View the trailer: youtu.be/pSse2RIapEA
RETRO FEATURE FILM - SUNDAY 7TH AUGUST - 3:30PM
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
Rated PG. Running time: 1hr 55min. Snack bar operating. Doors open 3pm.
Peter Weirs haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural.
View the trailer: youtu.be/x05QuAhpq6o
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
Rated PG. Running time: 1hr 55min. Snack bar operating. Doors open 3pm.
Peter Weirs haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding sexuality being restrained in Victorian corsets, the uptight headmistress (Rachel Roberts) takes them on a Valentine's Day picnic into the countryside, and several of the girls, led by the lovely Miranda (Anne Lambert) decide to explore a nearby volcanic rock formation. It's a desolate, primitive, vaguely menacing place, where one can almost feel the presence of ancient pagan spirits. Something -- and there is an unspoken but palpable emphasis on the inherent carnality of the place -- draws four of the girls to explore the rock. Three never return. No one ever finds out why. The repercussions for the school are tragic, and of course Roberts reacts with near-crazed anger, but what really happened? Weir gives enough clues to suggest any number of explanations, both physical and supernatural.
View the trailer: youtu.be/x05QuAhpq6o