Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The Company’s work is both diverse in form and content; to date the Company has created a number of works for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work.
The Perth International Arts Festival is Australia’s original and oldest international arts festival, with a worldwide reputation for excellence. In 2012, it celebrates its 60th Festival with an invigorating new vision from incoming Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway.
Simon Amstell is currently working on the second series of the critically acclaimed BBC2 sitcom ‘Grandma’s House’ and an international stand up tour, ‘Numb’. Simon has won an RTS Award as well as a Broadcast Award, two British Comedy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He is touring Australia as part of the Melbourne and Sydney International Comedy Festivals.
The brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo, John Waters, brings his glorious one man show This Filthy World to Australia in his first ever national tour.
Jane Birkin is one of the world’s most iconic and celebrated women. The star of film and stage; singer, songwriter and darling of the French avant garde, Birkin tours Australia in March 2012, performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and at the Adelaide Festival.
The Fleurieu Biennale began in 1998 and has since grown into an event that has won recognition both nationally and internationally. It is the the world’s richest landscape painting prize.
Transmission Films is a leading independent film distributor bringing the best local and international films to Australian and New Zealand audiences. Joint Managing Directors Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie launched Transmission in 2008 in partnership with Paramount Pictures Australia.
The Eye of the Storm, based on the classic novel by Patrick White, Australia’s only ever recipient of the Noble Prize for literature (in 1973), is directed by internationally acclaimed Australian director Fred Schepisi. It’s the first feature film he’s made in Australia since the Oscar nominated, Evil Angels (1988), starring Meryl Streep.
Nearly ten years in the making, The Eye of the Storm brings together a stunning cast that includes Academy Award winner, Geoffrey Rush; Emmy, Golden Globe, BAFTA and AFI Award winner, Judy Davis; and multi-award winning actress Charlotte Rampling.
The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is a statutory body established under the 1972 South Australian Film Corporation Act. It exists in order to foster the creation and delivery of critically acclaimed and commercially successful ideas, moving images and sound for any viewing medium.