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Moll is in her mid-twenties but she lives with her family in a remote island community. Virtually trapped by the demands of her family, Moll finds...
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VIEW TRAILERThis year we had a ton of sell-out houses and a brilliant reaction across the board from audiences. Here's what went through the roof!
FULL AS A BULL'S BUM...
- 2018 Screen Industry Celebration - Wed 18th, Old Perth Girl's School - Sold Out!
- ATOM Seminar - Wed 11th, Aberdeen St TAFE - Sold out!
- Beast - Mon 16th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Betty Davis: They Say I'm Different - Sat 14th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Bill Evans: A Time Remembered - Fri 13th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- The Breaker Upperers - Opening Night, Thur 5th Leederville - Sold Out!
- Caniba - Sun 14th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- [censored] - Mon 9th Leederville - Sold Out!
- [censored] - Wed 19th Leederville - Sold Out!
- Crossroads - Fri 6th, Backlot - Sold Out!
- Desolation Centre - Wed 18th Leederville - Sold Out!
- Experimental Showcase #1 - Sun 8th Leederville - Sold Out!
- Ghost Stories - Wed 18th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Holiday - Sat 14th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Leave No Trace - Sat 14th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Long Shorts - Mon 9th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- Lost Gully Road - Tue 17th, Leederville - Sold Out!
- More Human Than Human - Sat 7th, Leederville - Sold out!
- No Stone Unturned - Tue 10th, Leederville - Sold out!
- The Cleaners - Sat 14th, Leederville - Sold out!
- Women in Horror talk - Tue 10th, Leederville - Sold out!
It's been a huge year for WA FILMS - in fact it's been a huge decade...so let's celebrate in style at the Old Perth Girls School, Wellington St East Perth on Wednesday night with the 2018 Screenwest Screen Industry Celebration.
It's a great opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and basically have a great time. Food, drinks, live entertainment and DJs and the whole box and dice are there for your pleasure!
Proudly presented by Screenwest.
We've updated our gallery with some of the business that's been going on in our first week all over town.
From gallery openings, to the festival opening, to VR, awards, Q&A's, panels and live performances, it's all there for your viewing pleasure...so take a look at our gallery right here!
Opening Night, our collaboration with the moving image art exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre and a myriad of activity across Perth and Fremantle are there for your viewing pleasure.
Take a look at our gallery which also includes lots of stuff we do throughout the year right here.
We tried and tried to get this film into the program and now it's here! If you're a fan of the utterly off-kilter, this nugget is for you.
Runaway wife Lulu Danger (Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation, Ingrid Goes West) and hitman Colin (Jemaine Clement, What We Do In The Shadows, Flight of the Conchords) find themselves hiding in a small town hotel with a bag of stolen money. Here they wait for the mysterious Beverly Luff Linn (Craig Robinson; The Cleveland Show, The Office), who has a strange connection to Lulu’s past. Meanwhile Lulu’s husband Shane (Emile Hirsch, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) is searching for her.
We reckon it's a riot and obeys it's own internal logic which is constantly surprising.
Extra sessions are: Fri 6th, 10.50pm, Sat 14th, 11pm, Wed 18th, 8.45pm all at Luna Leederville.
We had a great night last night with the Life in Pictures filmmaking competition awards night and screening with a big house and some sensational films.
Life in Pictures is a creative initiative between Revelation and the Department of Communities to work with all sectors of the community in discussing issues of ageing. Over the last few months we've been undertaking free filmmaking workshops in regional and metropolitan areas, working with individuals and community groups and mentoring newcomers. In the end we received a selection of films or an enormously high standard.
Films were submitted in 3 categories:
Each category also had an Ambassador's choice award.
Each category went into the running for prizes including:
Under 17 - INDIVIDUAL WINNER
MacBook Pro Plus Davinci Resolve 14 video editing software $1,000 voucher for Black Magic products at Leederville Cameras.
Under 17 - SCHOOL WINNER
- DaVinci Resolve 14 video editing software
- Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
- Blackmagic Video Assist 4K field monitor and recorder
- Camera lens
- Leedervile Cameras - $200 voucher
- $1,000 voucher for Black Magic products at Leederville Cameras.
18-50 & 60+ Category
- $2,000 Cash Plus
- DaVinci Resolve 14 video editing software
- Blackmagic Pokect Cinema Camera
-Blackmagic Video Assist 4K field monitor and recorder
- Camera Lens
- Leedervile Cameras - $200 voucher
- $1,000 voucher for Black Magic products at Leederville Cameras.
So the finalists and winners were:
Under 17
- This is Elizabeth (Winner)
- My Movie About Ageing
- In Age Lies True Beauty (Ambassador's Choice)
- You Are Never to Old to Be in Love
- Ageing
18-59
- Small Steps (Winner)
- Finding Frances (coming soon)
- Sally and Bobbie
- Back
- On Vacation
- The Fisherman (Ambassador's Choice)
60+
- Ageless (Winner)
- A Wish and a Question
- Cycle Michael
- When Rodney Met Dawn
You can watch them all on REVonDEMAND right here.
Congratulations to all!
Applications now open for the Brian Beaton Award.
In recognition of the valuable contribution made to the screen industry in Western Australia by esteemed producer Brian Beaton, and to honour his memory, the Brian Beaton Award will be awarded annually to a filmmaker/s who has a current social impact project that needs further support to reach its full potential.
Brian Beaton was a well-respected Western Australian documentary maker whose career spanned over 35 years. He produced award-winning documentaries and factual programs for national and international markets and had various roles in the industry including Executive Producer at Artemis, and also worked as a Producer, Director and Writer in previous roles.
Brian and his business partner, Celia Tait, worked together to develop and successfully produce many projects including seven seasons of Who Do You Think You Are?, Saving Andrew Mallard, Shaun Micallef’s Stairway to Heaven, The Dreamhouse and Desperately Seeking Sheila.
Brian also contributed to the screen industry nationally by his advocacy and professional work with Screen Producers Australia, Screenwest and the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
The Brian Beaton Award is open to current Western Australian residents of any level of experience who have a factual project in active development, or that has been produced for broadcast, theatrical or online distribution, including VR and interactive projects. Support is available for development and production, or an outreach campaign to enhance social impact.
This year, the total grant available will be up to $12,250, combining contributions from Screenwest, the annual AIDC Stanley Hawes Award (of which Brian Beaton was the posthumous recipient in 2017) and private donations.
The successful recipient will also have access to tailored mentoring from up to three leading Western Australian industry professionals.
The Brian Beaton Award recipient/s will be announced on Wednesday, 18 July at the 2018 Screenwest Industry Celebration being held as part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Application Details
Please download the award guidelines on the Brian Beaton Award page for more information about eligibility and the application process click here.
All applications materials must be submitted by 5:00pm WST on Monday, 2 July 2018.
Applications should be emailed here.
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It's here folks and it's packed with films, talks, exhibitions, free screenings, live music and tons more.
We've got films from 30 countries, 200+ screenings, 185 individual films 17 bands and happenings all over Perth and Fremantle.
We're enormously proud of this year's program and we can't wait to see you at our venues and taking all things movies!
Download the program as a PDF here.
Browse the program online here.
Passes are available now - but you need to go to the venues for purchase.
...otherwise we'll see you in the dark!
It's a WA classic and it's back on the big screen in our special May Aus Revelations program - but if you didn't get yourself organised, we're sorry to say it's sold out!
Deborra Lee-Furness plays Asta Cadell, a no-nonsense lawyer leather-clad, free-wheeling her way around the country on a very powerful motorcycle. As happens, her bike breaks down in isolated rural WA where she has to spend some time in town while the hog is repaired. As a guest of the town mechanic Tim Curtis (played by Aussie film stalwart Tony Barry), Asta rapidly discovers the town is hiding a dark secret that has, and can, only lead to tragedy…and so a powerful story of justice and revenge takes shape that will change the town forever.
For those who don't know, Australian Revelations is our monthly screening showcase of new and archival Australian feature films and documentaries. They're accompanied each month by a local short film and live Skype Q&A's with filmmakers and performers...and while you're there grab a pre-film drink and nibbles on us.
Mon 28 May
6:30pm
The Backlot Perth
21 Simpson Street
West Perth, WA 6005
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For 2018 we're again working with the Fremantle Arts Centre, this time presenting work from internationally acclaimed UK artists Semiconductor. Open to the public from May 26th until July 15th, this spectacular exhibition mixes science with art across multi-screens in an immersive visual environment that's fascinating for all ages.
Semiconductor have garnered international attention for their distinctive, innovative works which push the boundaries of moving image as a visual language. They seek to extend our experience of the natural world, delving into and creating visual interpretations of unseen worlds by transforming and stitching together images of scientific data.
Brilliant Noise offers a glimpse of solar astronomy, revealing some of the sun’s finest unseen moments. The images, mostly collected from ground based observatories and satellites, are raw and grainy to showcase the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise.
Black Rain is a mesmerising moving image installation which utilises satellite data to observe the space between the sun and the earth.
Click here for more information.
Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle
Sat 26 May – Sun 15 July
Free entry
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Rev’s always had a solid live music with film component with local and visiting international artists the calibre of Siouxsie and the Banshees' Steve Severin, Goblin and their live score to Suspiria, Sonic Youth’s Lee Renaldo and tons more. So alongside these and our breakthrough films, we presenting a series of gigs featuring breakthrough local and national bands.
Taking place over 6-nights of the festival, the Revelation Music Days is designed as a showcase for local and national musicians of all forms who are busting out and going places.
From July 9-15th, Mt Lawley’s Rosemount Hotel, Fremantle’s Mojo’s bar and Perth Backlot will play host to 15 outfits who’ll provide WA audiences the opportunity to experience some of the best live music on offer.
This year’s line-up includes German multi-media sound artists Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle Picciotto (Crime and the City Solution) direct from Dark Mofo, Eastern States headliners Amyl and the Sniffers (Melb) on a shredding double with the all-girl rockers Rackett (Syd) alongside Tape/Off (Bris), Shoeb Amad (ACT) and 12 local outfits including local favourites FOAM, Hussy, Candy Guts, Pat Chow and more!
The Revelation Music Days has a mighty strong representation of women performers and as a result is taking to opportunity to present a Women in Music workshop with Amy Taylor (Amyl and the Sniffers), members from Rackett and local musicians. This workshop is open to all but geared to women - free.
The full line up is:
Fri July 6th Backlot
Alexander Hacke & Danielle Picciotto perform Crossroads
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Sat July 7th Backlot
Alexander Hacke & Danielle Picciotto Artists Talk (12noon)
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Sat July 7th Backlot
Alexander Hacke & Danielle Picciotto perform Menetekel
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Thur July 12th Rosemount
CALMLY, Telete, Shoeb Ahmad (ACT), Ryan Beno
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Fri July 13th Mojos
Amyl and the Sniffers (Melb), Rackett (Syd), New Talk, Tape/Off (Bris)
Get tickets here
Sat July 14th Rosemount
Amyl and the Sniffers (Melb), Rackett (Syd), FOAM, Hussy
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Sat July 14th SAE, Perth
Women in Music Workshop (12noon - free)
Book your place here.
Sun July 15th Mojos
Pat Chow, Candy Guts, Terrible Signal, Mal De Mer
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Our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND has added another title to its expanding international catalogue this month with the great Aussie documentary In the Realm of the Hackers.
In the late '80s computer networks, the internet and global electronic communications found themselves in the netherworld between international application and back-room experimentation - then along came the hackers.
What started out as an adventure in cyberspace for a bunch of Australian computer nuts turned into a global police chase. Two young Melbourne boys known as Electron and Pheonix began infiltrating the systems of of the world's biggest financial institutions, defence and scientific organisations and secret facilities.
As the boys come under increasing suspicion, we are taken on quite the most fascinating international hunt for these electronic bandits. Their obsession became an international incident and created the winds of change in electronic law-making.
Amazing but true - particularly for the period - and told with great authenticity.
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CLOSE OF ENTRIES MAY 30TH!
We've had a huge response to our Life in Pictures filmmaking workshops and entires are coming in thick and fast - so we've decided to extend the deadline until May 30th!
In collaboration with the Department of Communities and ScreenWest, this unique initiative seeks to bring discussions of ageing in the community front and centre in the most creative and collaborative way possible.
We invite filmmakers, non-filmmakers, old and young, individuals and groups from any background and gender and everyone in between to show us your feelings by producing a 2 minute and under film on the subject of ageing in the community.
There's three categories (17 under under, 18-59 and 60+) each with a prize pool ranging from $5,500 to $7,000 including cash and film production equipment to suit novices or professionals.
Entries close May 18th and we sincerely welcome entries from any and all skill levels. Shoot on your mobile phone or anything else at your disposal. Organise a school class or community group, get the retirement village together and get something going or fly solo but we urge all to give it a go...what have you got to lose?
During the course of the call for entries we'll also be running free filmmaking workshops so drop us a line here to get information on them as it comes to hand.
Click here for general information and links last year's winners.
Click here and go to the Life in Pictures link to see all the 2017 finalists.
Click here to go to the online Guidelines and Entry Form
Click here to download the Guidelines as a PDF
Click here to go straight to the online Entry Form.
Click here to download the Entry Form as a PDF is you'd like to post us disc or drive of your entry.
Click here to email our Life in Pictures Coordinator
...or call Ashleigh our competition coordinator on 0404 616 354
We're super happy to announce Rev's received accreditation as a Qualifying AACTA Film Festival. The accreditation means that Australian films selected to screen at the Rev will be eligible for the annual AACTA Awards.
Revelation Festival Director Richard Sowada said it was great recognition for the festival. “We’re delighted to be working actively with AACTA/AFI as a Qualifying film festival for the AACTA Awards and we look forward to being a major gateway for Australian independent filmmakers to consideration,” Richard said. “Rev has a great tradition of supporting high-risk, high-concept work of all forms and if we can play a part in bringing film makers one step closer to national and international recognition, we’re doing our job.”
The announcement comes as AACTA revealed two new awards; Best Casting and Best Indie Film for projects with budgets under $2 million.
Entries for the feature film and feature documentary categories for the eighth AACTA Awards are now open. More information can be found at www.aacta.org.
For 2018 and beyond we're partnering with the Otherside Brewing Co and Luna Cinemas in providing a $5,000 short film grant - and the recipient of this year's inaugural grant has been awarded to Tom de Souza and his work Out of Range.
Out of Range is a short film about a young man recovering from ice addition and production is underway as we speak. The film will screen as part of this year's Rev event and we can't wait to see the result!
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You know we're getting close to showtime when tickets and registrations of some form are going liver - and so it begins with Revelation Academic registrations which are live now.
Revelation is Australia's only international film festival to host and encourage academic discussion alongside its screening program and we look forward to taking its discoveries to audiences around the country and world. It represents an important platform in film discussion and analysis in this country.
Taking place on the first Monday July 9th and Tuesday July 10th 2018, the Revelation Academic Conference draws local, national and international academics to discuss and analyse issues such as:
Registrations are $150 and include a 6 film festival tickets.
This year's venue is the very comfortable Perth Backlot which embraces high-quality presentation capabilities, a bar and intimate environment but places are limited so get in early!
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We're very excited about our April Australian Revelations selection Road Games...it's fantastic!
Starring the two US imports of Jamie Lee Curits and Stacey Keach but directed by Australia’s own Richard Franklin, Road Games is a true cat and mouse story set on the lonely Nullabor road. Pat Quid (Keach) is truckin’ his way across country on his way to Perth when he stops to pick up a sassy hitchhiker (remember them?), Hitch (Curtis). She’s a smart-mouth rich-type mooching around and he’s not your typical truckie. Unknown to them they're also sharing the road with a killer and thrills a-plenty ensue!
For those who don't know, Australian Revelations is our monthly screening showcase of new and archival Australian feature films and documentaries. They're accompanied each month by a local short film and live Skype Q&A's with filmmakers and performers...and while you're there grab a pre-film drink and nibbles on us.
Mon 30 April
6:30pm
The Backlot Perth
21 Simpson Street
West Perth, WA 6005
Our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND has added another title to its expanding international catalogue this month with the great documentary Scrappers.
Shot fly-on-the-wall style, the award winning "Scrappers" tells the stories of these men and their families, following them through various tribulations as the global economy crashes and the Chicago streets fill with thick snow. Through these men, the film examines everything from the pragmatics of recycling to the crackdown on immigration, all the while telling the stories of people whose lives are rarely seen on the screen. Ultimately "Scrappers" shows how people try and survive, often against all odds, and celebrates the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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Our free school holiday family animation programs have been a hit throughout 2017 and 2018 and they're back for the April school holidays! Screening every weekday our international animation explosion consists of two specially curated programs of brand new international animations.
Fantastic for the whole family these are some of the best animations drawn from the 4-corners of the globe and presented in association with the WA State Library and the City of Perth.
There's two shows every weekday between Monday April 16th Friday April 27th - and bookings are essential...it gets mighty busy!
The two 50 minute programs are:
Click here to see the full program listing.
The 2018 Film Grant brings together Otherside, Luna Palace Cinemas and Revelation in this exciting new partnership, which will award a local filmmaker $5,000 to help produce a short film, to be screened as part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2018 (July 5-18).
The film can be any genre, from short narrative, documentary, animation, experimental or any other hybrid. The only rules: it must be 10 minutes or shorter and be identifiably West Australian…in whichever way you imagine that.
Entries close 5pm WST Monday, April 9 – and the grant recipient will be announced Wednesday, April 11. Films need to be shot, edited and ready to screen for Revelation, which kicks off July 5.
Full entry details and conditions for the grant are available here. Of the initiative, Luna Palace Cinemas’ Operations Manager Candice Skinner said: “Luna Palace Cinemas is delighted to be working with Revelation Perth International Film Festival and Otherside Brewing Co. on what we believe to be a truly exciting and important initiative. “Luna Palace Cinemas has enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Revelation for almost two decades and supports any push to encourage the development of local filmmakers and help deliver quality, locally-made film content and in turn, drive the WA screen industry.”
Revelation’s Director Richard Sowada added: “Working directly with filmmakers in getting ideas and projects off the ground is what the festival is all about. If we can provide inspiration through what we screen and follow that up with initiatives that actually get things made then I don’t know what more we can possibly ask for!”
The grant will be funded through part proceeds of every Otherside beer sold at the iconic Luna Cinemas in Leederville. So a cheers on Otherside is a cheers towards the future of WA film.
Of Tapped By Otherside’s evolution into film, Otherside’s David Chitty says: “As someone who has worked in both music and film in WA, I recognise how difficult it can be to get financial support for important and career defining projects. Tapped By Otherside is our declaration of faith and support in the WA creative sector, which is truly one of the most exciting anywhere in the country.”
For full details on Tapped By Otherside and further announcements on the 2018 WA Film Grant keep an eye on tappedbyotherside.com.
For general grant enquiries email here.
We sold out virtually every Australian Revelations screening in 2017 and we're looking at doing the same for 2018 starting off with the great documentary Salute.
This special work examines the period before, during and after one of the most memorable moments and images from the Olympic Games - period.
At the 1968 Olymics, Australian athlete Peter Norman stands on the podium with a Silver medal around his neck after the 200m sprint. To his right stands US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlo who together won Gold and Bronze. In the air is their clenched fist Black Power salute. While not clenching his fist Norman undertook his own form of protest that had life-long repercussions.
For those who don't know, Australian Revelations is our monthly screening showcase of new and archival Australian feature films and documentaries. They're accompanied each month by a local short film and live Skype Q&A's with filmmakers and performers...and while you're there grab a pre-film drink and nibbles on us.
Mon 26 March
6:30pm
The Backlot Perth
21 Simpson Street
West Perth, WA 6005
Our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND has added another title to its expanding international catalogue this month with the acclaimed thriller Kidnap Capital.
Felipe Rodriquez' fantastically tense feature tells the story of what can and does happen to many illegal Mexican immigrants once the cross the border into the US under the control of organised people smugglers. It's really great.
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Rev has always had a commitment to encouraging individual voices and exploring unique approaches so it's with enormous pleasure we welcome on board as ambassadors two friends who are making and doing it internationally.
Along with our recently appointed Ambassador Trevor Jamieson, our three Ambassadors will work with our team, our Board and our fans in flying the Rev flag high across Perth, across Australia and across the world!
"It's a great honour for us to have a trio of such highly regarded practitioners as part of the Rev family - the icing on the cake being the deep local connection." says Festival Director Richard Sowada. "Their fantastic collective body of work in front of and behind the camera is about as on a s it gets and we're humbled that they're in the house."
If you're keen to see what each of them have been up to, click here to see Emma's work, here for Trevor's and here for Ben's.
Next time you're in town why not take a quick detour to the Piccadilly Arcade where we've just launched our second moving image installation commission in the Accidental Cinema series. This one features the film "Life in Australia: Perth", a 1965 work made as part of the Life In Australia series, by the Department of Immigration, to entice immigrants from Europe.
Projection artist Roly Skender presents it here as a work of nostalgia and local history. Familiar streets, buildings, beaches and leisure activities now reveal themselves through a humorous narrative at odds with the original intention of the film. How times have changed!
Lovingly preserved by the NFSA, ‘Life in Australia: Perth’ is a picture of life in Perth in the mid 1960s. The social, business, sporting and other activities of an average Australian family in Perth are told through the eyes of the local newspapers.
Accidental Cinema is a series of moving image installations presented over 12 months in empty retail spaces throughout the City of Perth. Proudly presented by the City of Perth, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, and the National Film and Sound Archive.
Watch the full film here or drop by the Piccadilly Arcade to take a look. While you're there stroll up the Arcade and see out 1st Accidental Cinema - Ghost City - featuring some of the earliest footage ever filmed in Perth.
Click here to see the entire Invigorate Perth slate.
Our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND adds two more titles for the New Year and both are from internally acclaimed documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky. Both extraordinary portraits they're finely crafted and deeply moving.
The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan and its companion piece The Boy Mir are made for lovers of documentary and social justice and are films of the highest order...we can't recommend them highly enough.
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For 2018 the City of Vincent Film Project received a record number of entries and the selection panel has announced the three recipients for 2018.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival partnered with the City of Vincent for the Film Project which offered an opportunity for filmmakers to tell stories in and about the City of Vincent, with $15,000 being allocated to fund three short documentaries.
Rev Director Richard Sowada said the grass-roots project has been enormously rewarding.
“It’s about having a real creative impact at a community level and brings many of these emerging filmmakers into the international fold,” said Richard.
The winning films are:
The Beeman
The buzz around local Beeman, Carl Maxwell, isn’t for nothing - he’s the best in the business - and that’s because he can communicate with the local honeybee population. The Beeman follows one man’s crusade to save the honeybees, one hive at a time.
Producer Cody Greenwood, Directors Samantha Marlowe and Frances Elliott
Neon
Neon signs are everywhere in cities around the world. They liven the sky and streets with colour and atmosphere. In Perth, WA neon bending is a dying art. But one young man is taking on an apprenticeship that could change that.
Producer Rachael Karotkin, Director Matt Sav
Ghosts Of Vincent
An expository-participatory documentary that looks at historical people and venues within the area of the City of Vincent. The film investigates the legend of ‘Kanga’ the ghost who haunts the newly renovated Leederville hotel, but also focuses on other venues and locations of interest in the Vincent area.
Producer Paul Vanleigh Shout, Director Kimberly McGivern
Project Coordinator Ashleigh Nicolau said that the films were as eclectic as the City of Vincent itself.
“A mixed bag of environmental, artistic and supernatural stories, I can't wait to see these short documentaries take off!,” Ashleigh said.
“The City is also keen to work closely with the filmmakers to create events surrounding the film subjects such as art exhibitions and ghost tours.”
The record number of submissions received were considered by a panel of industry professionals, and representatives of the City of Vincent and the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
Successful applicants will commence production in January, and the three completed films will screen as part of the 2018 Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July. In an added bonus for filmmakers, their works be available to international audiences through REVonDEMAND – Revelation’s own on-demand platform.
And here are the lucky filmmakers:
We're thrilled to announce that acclaimed actor Trevor Jamieson has joined the Revelation team as a permanent ambassador.
Soon to be seen in the upcoming remake of the classic Australian film Storm Boy playing the iconic character Fingerbone Bill, made famous by David Gulpilil, Trevor’s other screen credits include Natamjira Project, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Cleverman and The Secret River as well as regularly treading the theatre boards in Australia and overseas.
As ambassador to the Rev, Trevor will become one Revelation’s most prominent supporters, lending his profile and his passion to promote the festival regarded by media, industry and audiences alike as the most individual and innovative screen culture events in the country.
Rev director Richard Sowada says it’s a terrific collaboration.
“Trevor is proudly West Australian with an international outlook, just like Rev,” said Richard.
“We can’t think of a better person to help spread the word about what we do and what we are all about.
“As an actor he’s of course deeply involved in the screen business, but he also brings a message of the place of the arts in our broader culture.”
Trevor Jamieson says he’s humbled at the opportunity.
“As someone who grew up in the arts industry and spent most of my life in Western Australia, I’ve gained witness to skills of strength and weakness within our state that have always given me experiences to share of stories and places, nationwide and internationally,” Trevor said.
“I’m excited to celebrate the most simple viewpoints that can reveal great strengths within the awareness of our mindset for independent works and allowing for amazing
collaboratives between national and international themes to understand the human common aspects of social justice.
“Plus I’m looking forward to being back home again and becoming involved with a lot of well known and emerging artists.”
Since its inception in 1997, Revelation has dedicated itself to signposting Australia and Western Australia as a centre for creative, critical and business excellence. Trevor Jamieson’s appointment will help achieve this goal.
We're the gift that never stops giving and to provide it we're proud to present a line-up of 2 programs of brand new international animations presented on the big screen and free for the entire family.
In collaboration with the City of Perth, the State library of WA and curated by the melbourne International Animation Festival, these two great programs come from the four corners of the globe and present audiences with a fresh look at what is happening in the world of animation.
Programmed for kids of all ages they're guaranteed to enchant and surprise and will have your kids talking all day about them.
The sessions are free but we highly recommend you reserve your place in advance...they're mighty popular.
Week 1
Week 2
Read more here
Reserve your seats here
Read more about our Invigorate Perth programs right here...we've got something happening every day until September 2018!
Our next public art installation as part of our Invigorate Perth initiative with the City of Perth is the Virtual Busker.
The Virtual Busker is waiting… She wants to play for you, only requiring a small donation in her hat to perform. Don’t worry, there’s no need to part with your own money. Pick up a penny from the bowl and place it in the hat. You may be surprised.
The Virtual Busker is an interactive audiovisual artwork by Roly Skender, co-produced with Revelation Film Festival and the City of Perth, featuring violin performances by musician Elisa Siipola. It draws on themes of social interaction, performance and the perceived threat of automation in a rapidly moving society.
The Virtual Busker aims to create musical moments in public spaces, using nothing but digital machines and human curiosity.
December 5-9, 12-16, 18-24, Commonwealth Bank Building wall, Murray St Mall
Read more about our Invigorate Perth programs right here...we've got something happening every day until September 2018!
Always wanted to become a Rev member but your student lifestyle just doesn't let you get there? Craving for that little bit of Rev loving but it's just out of reach?
We hear ya and so we've introduced a student-level memberships which allows you to access some great Rev benefits during the festival and throughout the year.
Click here to sign up and find out more!
For a measly $125 Rev student members provides:
Another sold out Australian Revelations sessions - which goes to prove you've gotta get in fast for these screenings.
Of any Australian documentary in recent memory that has changed a cultural course it's the Namatjira Project.
A film festival hit nationally the film traces the life and times of renowned indigenous artist Albert Namatjira, his family and the struggle for the ownership of his famous works.
Despite his work being so iconic - reproduced commercially on prints, tea towels and hanging on living room walls around the world – his family today fight for survival, justice and crucially, have only weeks ago regained the copyright to their grandfather’s work.
Namatjira Project traces this family’s quest. They team up with art & social justice organisation – Big hART - to tour a theatre production about Albert’s life, raising awareness, calling for support, and for a return of the copyright.
In demonstrating our commitment to local filmmaking all Australian Revelations screenings also include a WA produced short film.
Monday November 27th
Drinks and nibbles from 6:30pm - film at 7pm
The Backlot Perth: 21 Simpson St, West Perth
Read more here
If you missed the 2017 Rev vibe - shame on you! If you want to see what you missed take a look at our 2017 highlights trailer right here. It captures a certain something I think.
If you want to take a look at some of the other activity why not mosey over to our gallery and see what was happening all over town including live music, exhibitions, screenings, Q&As, Club Rev and all manner of comings and goings.
We never sleep though and Rev's literally got something on every day of the week from now until September 2018 including:
- Free kids holidays screenings made up brand-spanking new international short animations - our next one's scheduled for January. Here was our last one in October.
- Our monthly Australian Revelations screenings (which always sell out)
- Three free public Fringe World programs to be announced
- A new free interactive public projection coming for Christmas in the City of Perth as part of our Invigorate Perth initiative (we're shooting that now so details to come...)
- Our current Ghost Cities installation as part of our Accidental Cinema series in the Piccadilly Arcade...hey - that's also free!
...and a new Ghost City installation coming in January in collaboration with the City of Perth and the National Film & Sound Archive.
...and of course don't forget our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND which give you access to more than 300 titles including 200+ shorts that have screened at Rev since 1997!
Forget about the same old same old. If you want to explore the outer reaches of independent cinema and some of the most interesting and hard to get films you can't miss with our own On Demand platform - REVonDEMAND.
REVonDEMAND includes as many titles from previous year's programs as we can possibly find and in getting them to you we're negotiating directly with the filmmakers themselves and providing them in what is sometimes their only point of sale.
For this month we're proud to present:
We've also added three classic new free documentaries looking at electronic music, art and culture:
You can't go wrong with any selection - we promise!
You don't need to sign up or subscribe, we don't harvest your information and it's about as simple as you can get with categories that cross music, art and literature, biography, subculture, gender and sexuality and plenty more.
Take a look right here...or scroll down to the bottom of the page to see this month's featured trailers and our November featured short film.
We're proud to partner with DocPlay on a number of titles.
Our October Australian Revelations screening - Bad Boy Bubby - is sold out!...and if there's any more emphatic demonstration that you need to get in early for these monthly screenings, there it is!
One of Australia's most unusual films from one of Australia's most idiosyncratic filmmakers is our next Australian revelations cab off the rank. Yes...it's Bad Boy Bubby!
In what is an utterly unique vision from director Rolf de Heer, Bubby is a 30 year-old man-child whose been imprisoned by his mother who’s fooled him into thinking the world outside is a toxic and uninhabitable wasteland. As a result Bubby is completely unaware of the world that actually exists outside his grubby prison room – but Bubby isn’t going to be a prisoner his entire life.
It's an amazing and always surprising work - in fact it really feels like two films in one and we can't wait to see it on the big screen.
As an aside you may want to take our Festival Director Richard Sowada aside and ask him about his experiences in working with Rolf de Heer in the film Dingo which was partially shot up Meekatharra way.
In demonstrating our commitment to local filmmaking all Australian Revelations screenings also include a WA produced short film.
Monday October 30th
Drinks and nibbles from 6:30pm - film at 7pm
The Backlot Perth: 21 Simpson Street, West Perth
Read more here
Back for its 7th year Revelation Academic has launched its annual call for papers. Revelation Academic is Australia's only academic conference conference associated with a film festival and as such it's a great marriage of critical analysis and moving image.
Revelation Academic is a supportive environment where you can platform your ideas and discuss cinema in a very different way to a very different audience. Even if you're not an academic but just a very serious lover of cinema we suggest you come down and hear what critical thinkers from around Australia are thinking...or better still come and present something yourself!
Abstracts (no more than 200 words please) and proposals for panels (no more than 300 words) can be submitted here by the end of April 2018.
The conference will run on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 July as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, in Perth, Australia.
Just when you thought Rev can't possibly be any better, we're buzzed to be able to announce a new partnership between ourselves and two of our esteemed event partners!
The Otherside Brewing Co and Luna Cinemas will bank part profits from all Otherside Brewing Co beer sales at Luna venues across town to provide a $5,000 grant for an emerging filmmaker (or group there-of) to produce a short work for presentation at the 2018 edition of the Revelation event.
Eligibility details will be released early 2018 but for us it represents yet another plank in our commitment to the creative and critical development of the WA screen industry and in providing a voice for new and emerging filmmakers.
As part of out Invigorate Perth collaboration with the City of Perth we're very proud to announce the appearance of the first in our series of moving image commissions in our Accidental Cinema series.
Over the next 8 months or so Accidental Cinema will be colonising vacant shopfronts around the city seeking to open a doorway into Perth's past through these unique installations commissioned in collaboration with Rev, the City of Perth and the National Film & Sound Archive.
Our first installation is now on at the Hay St end of the Piccadilly Arcade - no stranger to cinema and the moving image history in Perth!
In place until December this three-screen artwork has at its core the earliest moving image material shot of Perth. Drawn from the wonderfully restored Corrick collection within the National Film & Sound Archive it's a rare glimpse into the past with a playful reflection on contemporary passers by.
Stay tuned for more across town!
As part of our collaboration with the City of Perth through the Invigorate Perth initiative we'll be presenting two free (yes free!) kids animation programs. Together with Awesome these two great 50minute programs are made of Perth premiere international animations of the highest order.
This program is specially curated by Malcolm Turner, director of the Melbourne International Animation Festival and is bursting at the seams with animations the like of which you've never seen.
It's a wonderful program for all ages and for animation fans but you need to reserve a place!
Times:
Saturday 30 September to Sunday 1 October: 11.30am & 1pm
Monday 2 October: 1pm & 3pm
Tuesday 3 October to Monday 9 October: 11.30am & 1pm
Place:
Saturday 30 September to Friday 6 October: State Library Theatre
Saturday 7 October: Seagull Tent, Perth Cultural Centre
Sunday 8 October & Monday 9 October: Great Southern Room, State Library of WA
Click here to look at the programs.
Click here to reserve a place.
We've over the moon to announce a filmmaking partnership between Revelation and the City of Vincent with the City of Vincent Film Project.
We're seeking submissions to fund three documentary films to be made in the City of Vincent about the City of Vincent and we're going to give the three selected ideas $5,000 each to produce it. The three films will screen during the July 2018 Rev event and join our list of notable films on our REVonDEMAND platform.
Submissions close November 1st so get those creative juices flowing.
We're looking forward to seeing the works and hearing the stories.
Deadline November 1st.
Have you no mercy? We guess not as we open our international call for entries.
Each year we received hundreds of films from the 4-corners of the globe from features, to documentaries, to experimental films, to animations to narrative shorts..and we'd love to receive yours!
Entry couldn't be easier with a range of online portals to service your needs.
You can submit your entries via:
Our entry fee is $40.
Just finally unless you're from Iran where international banking is very difficult, please don't ask for a fee waiver.
Entry Deadline April 13th, 2018
Our monthly screening program continues to sell out and it's now become a staple on the film-lover's calendar. This month we present the great Aussie drama from 1998 Head On.
Based on the novel Loaded written by Christos Tsiolkas it tells the story of Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a young Greek man in Melbourne, in conflict with his background, his sexuality, unable to come to terms with his future, and unable to express the turmoil within his passionate heart, or his individual head.
His only mode of self expression is in excess: excess in sex, in drugs, in anti-social and anti-authority behaviour, rejecting his parents but also rejecting his need of them.
Date: Monday Sept 25th
Place: Backlot Studios, 21 Simpson St, West Perth
Time: 6.30pm
Cost: $20 (includes drinks and nibbles)
Read more here.
Buy tickets here.
It's the gift that just keeps on giving! For this month we've added four new titles to our very own OnDemand platform REVonDEMAND!
Before we let you know what they are though we have to say the great Australian indie Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites is absolutely going nuts!
Anyway...for September we've added The fantastic documentary thriller The Imposter...it's great! We also have the Oscar winning documentary Undefeated, the cult classic doc Shut Up Little Man and the Allen Ginsberg biopic starring James Franco - Howl.
You can't go wrong with any selection - we promise!
You don't need to sign up, we don't harvest your information and it's about as simple as you can get with categories that cross music, art and literature, biography, subculture, gender and sexuality and plenty more.
Take a look right here...or scroll down to the bottom of the page to see this month's featured trailers and our September featured short film.
We're proud to partner with DocPlay on a number of titles.
Rev 2017 may be over but if you love independent cinema you can explore some of our favourite films since we started in 1997 with our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND.
Including over 300 individual titles including shorts it's just about the best archive of international independent cinema you'll find anywhere and they're available for rent or purchase.
This month we're proud to add the great Australian indie Alvin's Harmonious World of Opposites and three titles we're releasing in collaboration with DocPlay - one of the best online documentary portals around.
These three are all internationally acclaimed and as good as you'll see. Chris Rock is hilarious in Good Hair, The Act of Killing is just brilliant and Jesus Camp is quite extraordinary.
You don't need to sign up, we don't harvest your information and it's about as simple as you can get with categories that cross music, art and literature, biography, subculture, gender and sexuality and plenty more.
Take a look right here...or scroll down to the bottom of the page to see this month's featured trailers and our August featured short film.
We're proud to partner with DocPlay on a number of titles.
After our 2017 main event we're back on deck with our monthly screenings of new and archival films and this month we're featuring the 2001 Aussie classic Lantana.
Lantana marked a new direction for Australian cinema. With a discernable European feel it is layer upon layer of intertwined stories and shoots – just like the plant – and getting to the roots of the growth becomes more and more challenging.
As the film opens a body is discovered in the shrub and as each story branch is removed to find the cause, those involved become more and more entangled in the world that has grown over them.
As complex interrelationships are exposed we are introduced to and all-star cast who turn in laser-guided performances aided by a script that twists and turns up many a garden path. Anthony LaPaglia is Leon, the police officer; Kerry Armstrong is his wife Sonja; Barbara Hershey plays psychiatrist Valerie Somers; Geoffrey Rush is her husband John and the supporting cast features Peter Phelps, Rachael Blake, Vince Colosimo and others.
Despite the density of relationships and suspicions related to the murder and their own fidelity all are strangely alone and disconnected and it’s these explorations against the backdrop of murder that prove utterly engrossing.
Lantana was and is a completely unique Australian film.
These always sell out!
Date: Monday August 28th
Place: Backlot Studios, 21 Simpson St, West Perth
Time: 6.30pm
Cost: $20 (includes drinks and nibbles)
Read more here.
Buy tickets here.
2017 has been our biggest year. With great houses and sell outs throughout we had many "I was there that night" moments for events, films, music, talks and exhibitions...in fact we've seen more than 10,000 people come through our doors this year against 2017 which was a great year in itself.
But although the July dates are done we've got events and activities throughout the year including our monthly Australian screening showcase Australian Revelations and a whole series of events in found spaces we're planning as part of our Invigorate Perth partnership with the City of Perth.
We'll also be back with a Fringe World program in February and of course a monster event in July 2018 that'll include a live music program and of course our internationally recognised film program.
We're about to announce several filmmaking initiatives which re-affirms our commitment to the encouragement of a creative and critical WA film and wider community and we're gearing ourselves to staking our place as the most vital and innovative film festival in the country.
Our international call for entries will open September 1st and as usual we just keep rolling in bringing the very best of local and international independent cinema to you year-round.
Our deepest thanks go to all our staff, our 70+ volunteers and supporters in 2017. What an amazing ride.
In our first program collaboration with the Fremantle Arts Centre we were proud to present the moving image art exhibition Warp.
Curated by nationally recognised moving image art curator Amy Marjoram, Warp was a unique collaboration between 8 WA and Victorian screen artists that explored the way our increasingly screen-dominated lives are affecting our perception of reality and the way we interact and connect with others. Shifting ideas around intimacy and isolation, the performative instincts within our online exchanges and the threats and promises of a digitised personal history are some of the themes explored in this thought provoking and sometimes challenging series of works.
The exhibition featured new works from:
Take a look at the shots from the opening night in our gallery right here.
Warp was proudly supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts, the Fremantle Arts Centre and the City of Fremantle and you through our recent crowd funding campaign.
It was a huge year...here's a list of the sell out houses we saw over our two weeks:
A Dark Song (Fri 14th Leederville) Sold out!
A Date With Mad Mary (Fri 7th SX) Sold out!
A Dragon Arrives (Sun 16th Leederville) Sold out!
A Life in Waves (Fri 7th, Leederville) Sold out!
Assholes (Fri 7th Leederville & Sat 15th Leederville) Sold out!
ATOM Media Education Seminar Sold out!
AWOL (Wed 12th Leederville) Sold out!
Even Lovers Get the Blues (Fri 14th Leederville) Sold out!
Houston We Have a Problem (Sat 15th Leederville) Sold out!
The Key to Dali (Sun 16th Leederville) - Sold out!
Lazybones (Tue 18th Leederville & Tues 18th Leederville) Sold out!
Meal Tickets (Sat 8th Leederville) Sold out!
Neighborhood Food Drive (Tue 11th Leederville) Sold out!
Opening Night: Becoming Bond Sold out!
Orange Sunshine (Mon 17th Leederville) Sold out!
Secrets at Sunrise (Sun 9th Leederville) Sold out!
Spookers (Thur 13th Leederville) Sold out!
The Untamed (Wed 12th Leederville) - Sold out!
Tower (Tues 18th Leederville)Sold out!
WebFest Awards Ceremony (Sun 9th Backlot) Sold out!
Weirdos (Sat 8th, Leederville) Sold out!
Wiener-Dog (Sat 8th Leederville) Sold out!
Women Who Kill (Sat 8th Leederville) Sold out!
You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski - (Fri 14th Leederville) Sold out!
For those of you wanting to experience the Picture Palace exhibition you're going to have to wait a bit longer...the building is still being renovated!
The exhibition will now officially open on Aug 19th - so we'll see you then!
After months of planning and filmmaking we had out Life in Pictures filmmaking competition award screenings at luna in Leederville. The audience turned out in numbers to experience the community voices looking at ageing - and it was incredibly rewarding.
The lucky winners were:
UNDER 17 Category Finalists
My Hero Dir: Charlie Clark
18 - 59 Category Finalists
Jim Dir: Binu Jayawardena
60+ Category Finalists
Janet's New Skills Dir: Ruth Kendall
Our Ambassador's Choice Awards decided by Jenny Davis were:
UNDER 17 Category Finalists
My Hero Dir: Charlie Clark
18 - 59 Category Finalists
A Picture Of Me Dir: Helena Cohen-Robertson
60+ Category Finalists
Dog’s Refuge Home Dir: Bree Billington
The complete finalist list is:
Under 17
Charlie Clarke, Melissa Coleman, Jacob Del Casale, Alexander Nguyen (winner) - My Hero
Ashlinn Berry - Moments
Hugo Flavelle - Hugo and Alan
Emma Sami - A Touch of Wisdom
Trinity College Year 12 Media General - When I Grow Up
18-59
Binu Jayawardona (winner) - Jim
Sam Lara - Grantiki
Sara Lara - The Right Treatment
Gina Capes - The Wire
Helena Cohne-Robertson - A Picture of Me
60+
Ruth Kendall (winner) - Janet's New Skills
Ruth Kendall - The Best Medicine
Bree Billington - Dogs' Refuge Home
Giogia Kuhn - Aging is Good
Caroline Gumede - CALD Elders
You can view all our finalists on the REVonDEMAND platform right here.
Congratulations to all! It's been the most fantastic experience and we look forward to seeing everyone there on the night.
A special thanks to everyone who entered.
Click here to get some background on the competition.
The Life in Pictures short film competition is a creative collaboration between the Department of Communities, Revelation Perth International Film Festival and Screenwest.
We've got reviews coming in this and fast for some of the films on offer for 2017 so if you're having trouble making up your mind as to what to see, perhaps let someone else do it for your you. Take a look a here...
Perth Cool Nights gives a great overview of some of their hit-picks including the great feature film Watch the Sunset. Read it right here.
XPress puts the amazing Dave Made a Maze among their top film picks of the year no less! Read it here.
AB Film Reviews takes a really interesting look at local documentary Meal Tickets. Read the review here.
Roly Skender gets to air his ideas on our special commission at St George's Cathedral Suspended Voices. Read what he's got to say here in the Community News.
AB Film Reviews also gives Dave Made a Maze a look here.
Community News interviews the star of Patti Cake$ Danielle McDonald. You can read that here.
AccessReel takes a look at the lovely My Life as a Zucchini. It's all here.
Cult Projections give a great overview of some of their faves including Are We Not Cats, Watch the Sunset, You Never Had It, Safari and Orange Sunshine. Read it here.
Scenestr has a cool overview of the entire event here.
Filmink has a great interview with Raoul Peck on the making of I Am Not Your Negro. Read it here.
Our monthly series of new and archival Australian films is powering along with sell-out houses and filmmaker Q&As. For May the late, great John Clark along with Zoe Carides and Sam Neill will star in John Ruane's fantastic romance/comedy/crime film Death in Brunswick - but sorry to say it's sold out!
Neill plays Carl a one-step-away alcoholic, loser and cook – that is until he meets Sophie (Carides) a barmaid in the shady joint in which he works. The two find a serious spark but family and friends have other ideas. After an untimely death of a kitchen hand things rapidly spiral well out of control for all as the star-crossed lovers need to deal with family expectations and an unexpected all-out gang war. Along the way Carl is notably assisted by Dave (Clark) in a turn described by The Guardian as “a scene-stealing sidekick powered by a boisterously entertaining performance”
The show always sells out so get in early. Tickets also include complimentary wine and nibbles supplied by Gourmet Trader.
Sold out!
Date: Monday May 29th
Place: Backlot Studios, 22 Simpson St, West Perth
Time: 6.30pm
Our Director is at it again blogging about the current state of affairs in the international distribution and exhibition sector. Netflix, Amazon, sales agents, markets...it's all on.
Read his observations and predictions in this ongoing series.
After a great start to the year for us with our sold-out Fringe World screenings we're prepping ourselves for our monthly Australian Revelations series...and to kick it off we're very pleased to announce our March screening - Chasing Asylum.
One of the most awarded, popular and widely seen Australian documentaries of recent years, Chasing Asylum is a blistering look at at the issue of asylum seekers, Australia's treatment of them and the inevitable enormous personal, mental and financial cost.
Directed by Oscar winner Eva Orner it's such an important issue and such an important film.
6.30pm, Monday March 27th
Backlot Studios
21 Simpson St, West Perth
We were super happy to be again part of the amazing Fringe World celebrations for 2017 with our presentation of the newly restored 70's David bowie/Nicholas Roeg classic The Man Who fell to Earth.
With a limited 3-session run and two sell-out houses in that, the film was also accompanied by a Bowie mini-photographic exhibition of portraits taken at the time - some even on set - of Bowie himself. These were incredible...the contrast and resolution were really something to behold! Very beautiful and very famous.
The event was so successful that we've nominated for a film and Multi-Media Award in the Fringe World Awards - for the second year running we might add.
If you want to take a look at some of the comings and goings, take a peek at our Gallery right here.
Our Festival Director Richard Sowada has taken it on himself to start a film comment blog examining all elements of the sector with a special focus on distribution and exhibition. If you're a filmmaker you may be interested in his thoughts of how to make the film festival floor work in part 2 of his Film Festival Survival Guide.
There's all manner of tips and observations - one of which is bound to stick.
Our very own On Demand platform - REVonDEMAND - is really building a head of steam with excellent titles being added every month and for February we've got five and have lined up another 12 for March and April!
If you love documentary portraits, activism, cinema, conspiracy, music, gender and protest we've got them all! Take a look at these beauties:
We've also added a new category - Portraits & Biographies - that includes some really excellent and unique work.
Many of the titles available are only available through REVonDEMAND which we believe to one of the only portals for independent cinema like it anywhere in the world.
We also believe REVonDEMAND represents one of the most accessible and comprehensive research portals for students and filmmakers internationally who may be wanting to explore films made that cover politics, conspiracy and counter culture, art, literature and cinema, gender and sexuality, music, horror and sic-fi and nearly 200 international short films.
For filmmakers the festival world may be filled with mystery, surprises, pitfalls and elements that confound logic.
Rev's own Director and founder Richard Sowada has taken it upon himself to examine this world in a two part Film Festival Survival Guide blog. Part 1 looks at how you can best prepare yourself and tip things in your favour in the selection process. Part 2 looks at how to maximise your festival opportunity once you're in.
Take a look at Film Festival Survival Guide Pt 1: Know Your Festival right here.
We've got a ton of titles arriving for our very own on demand platform REVonDEMAND and we're getting an amazing response internationally from what's available and it's unique approach.
REVonDEMAND is made up of as many films we've previously screened as we can possibly get hold of, many of them exclusive to this platform internationally. In sourcing the catalogue we deal directly with the directors, producers, sales agents and distributors and in may cases we're uncovering and making available films that haven't been seen for more than a decade. For many films that are already online we're linking to them in an effort to support the filmmakers but either way it's a truly excellent line-up.
For the festival and WA film industry REVonDEMAND also represents a unique locally based but international distribution and exhibition platform representing one of the best online collections of international independent cinema to be found anywhere.
January sees the addition of four documentary titles:
Our Academic component is one of the fastest growing elements of the event embracing delegates from around the country and around the world so it's with enormous pleasure we welcome Murdoch University on board as 2017 Revelation Academic presenting partner.
Rev is Australia's only international film festival to host and encourage academic discussion alongside its screening program and an important platform in film discussion and analysis in this country.
In association with Murdoch this year's conference is scheduled for Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 July (All day events). If you'd like to register your interest in presenting a paper click right here. You don't have to a student or academic to present so if you'd just like to talk about and present your ideas you're more than welcome.
As a very special addition to celebrate our 20th anniversary, RevAcademic participants are invited to attend an Industry Soiree post conference on 11 July followed by a complimentary film screening in the evening. We would love you to join us! Details to come...
Revelation Academic presented in association with Murdoch University
REVonDEMAND is the only tailor-made portal to international independent cinema associated with a film festival you'll find in the country - and it just keeps growing.
We're over the moon to announce the inclusion of 5 new titles for December that embrace documentary, comedy, sic-fi, fantasy, Nazis, robots, sex and sexuality, screen history, semiotics and subversive politics. Straight off the bat we have Caveh Zahedi's two film fest hits I Am a Sex Addict and The Sheik and I, Beth B's no-holds-barred look at burlesque in Exposed, the fantastic analysis of contemporary cinema in The Pervert's Guide to Ideology and the always surprising Aussie sci-fi/fantasy The 25th Reich.
The REVonDEMAND catalogue features 250+ short, feature, documentary, animation and experimental works with more than 60 exclusive to this site. All titles have previously appeared in the Rev program including a sizeable number of locally produced works. It represents an utterly unique initiative associated with any film festival on the planet and a great resource for filmmakers, students, academics and film lovers of all sorts.
Our very own On Demand platform REVonDEMAND is getting bigger by the month and November is no exception.
While we're about to announce a ton more titles in the coming months we're overjoyed to announce the inclusion of two Australian and two international features this month.
Appearing exclusively on REVonDEMAND are A Day at the Oasis (WA made!) and from Newcastle comes the most excellent Streetsweeper. Our international titles are the hugely popular USA underground rock apocalypse from 2008 Altamont Now and one of our surprise hits from a couple of years back the excellent Western Echoes of War.
The REVonDEMAND catalogue features 250+ short, feature, documentary, animation and experimental works with more than 60 exclusive to this site. All titles have previously appeared in the Rev program including a sizeable number of locally produced works. It represents an utterly unique initiative associated with any film festival on the planet and a great resource for filmmakers, students, academics and film lovers of all sorts.
Our monthly Australian Revelations screenings have been selling out - and it's no surprise why with the great quality of films, locally made shorts, Q&A's and complimentary drinks and nibbles that accompany every screening - and for November we present the internationally acclaimed but rarely seen Lake Mungo.
Australia has consistently produced genre films of an extraordinarily high quality - Wolf Creek, Road Games, Mad Max, The Babadook and more recently Boys in the Trees. Nestled right there in the middle is Joel Anderson's excellent and spooky tale Lake Mungo. Criminally neglected, it's a great pleasure for us to bring this picture to local audiences for Australian Revelations.
Receiving universally excellent reviews on its release, perhaps it's our old mate and one-time SBS (now ABC) reviewer Simon Foster:
"Deceptively simple in its construct and smashingly scary, Joel Anderson’s Lake Mungo is a twisting supernatural mystery of international standing, despite its very-Australian suburban milieu."
"The unfamiliar faces of the cast and the interview-style device via which the story unfolds add immeasurably to the nerve-jangling suspense Anderson creates. His patience as a storyteller and skill in framing the action so as to maximise his spooky intent, announces him as must-watch director in years to come."
Mon Nov 28th
Drinks and nibbles from 6:30pm - film at 7pm
The Backlot Perth: 21 Simpson Street, West Perth
Read more here
We've already received a fantastic response to our music meets film call out.
Rev is extending and invitation to WA musicians to come forward with music meets film ideas for possible presentation at the July 2017 event - which is incidentally celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Rev has a long history in presenting high-quality music/film concepts...here's some from recent memory...
If you have an idea we’d love to hear it - whether it be moving image art based experimentation or composing a score to an existing work, we’re open to anything. We have access to a range of venues across Perth and Fremantle from band spaces, to cabaret styled venues, to jazz rooms to the street via our partnerships with the Cities of Perth, Fremantle and Vincent and of course cinemas. Rev will also be able to assist with various logistics.
Event dates are July 6-19th 2017. Ideas only need to be concept at this stage - there'll be a full 6months after we make decisions to get the nuts and bolts together. So send us a brief concept outline (half page) and the kind of logistic/venue you'd be looking for.
Email us your idea here or call Richard on 0448 007 233 to talk. No idea is off the table and you never know until you give it a crack.
“One of the most captivating Australian documentaries in recent memory. It’s humorous, absorbing, uneasy and often disturbing.” - Cinema Australia
After screenings at the Sydney Film Festival and the internationally regarded Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs, Hotel Coolgardie comes to town with its special perspective on life in an isolated country town.
From Finland come backpackers Lina and Steph looking for a way to make some fast cash to support their travels. An employment agency places them at the Denver City Hotel in the isolated town of Coolgardie - a tough place to adjust to for anyone. This documentary chronicles their time at the hotel, their relationships with the locals and unusual bonds that develop between all.
It's an excellent film by anyone's standards.
Highly recommended.
Mon Oct 31st
Drinks and nibbles from 6:30pm - film at 7pm
The Backlot Perth: 21 Simpson Street, West Perth
Sold Out!
Read the Cinema Australia review here.
This month is Halloween so we're focussing on some of our horror/sci-fi and fantasy titles.
As well as quite a number the calibre of Troll Hunter, La Horde, Dead Snow and a ton of others, we've also specially negotiated the rights to present a number of titles you won't see anywhere else on any other platform anywhere on the planet.
If you're keen for something different, we suggest you take a look at three Aussie low-budgeters: Eye of the Sandman, The Inside Story and The Demonsamongus. If you like something more on the experimental side, take a look at Craig Baldwin's epic extraterrestrial conspiracy works Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America and Mock Up on Mu and if you're wanting to explore the history of horror/cult we recommend Midnight movies: From the Margins to the Mainstream.
On top of that there's tons of horror themed shorts that take you on a journey from into deep space to the zombie apocalypse. You simply can't miss.
There's Hollywood drama or there's actual drama. Want to see what actually happens in the cockpit at the point of life and death by virtue of dramatised black box recordings?
REVonDEMAND presents Charlie Victor Romeo and for an experimental experience there's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Try them both.
We're overjoyed to include four titles for September from one of our great friends and one of the great contemporary subversive filmmakers - Mr Craig Baldwin.
Hailing from San Francisco and being one of the prime movers behind SF's The Other Cinema, Baldwin has been responsible for a dazzling series of found footage epics that examine music, cinema, politics, conspiracy, copyright, religion and pretty well everything in between.
We've managed to secure four of his mega-works for your viewing pleasure including:
For the full selection of more than 260 films available for file purchase or streaming - many of them only available here - click right here!
We've barely wrapped the 2016 event and we're already opening our international call for entries!
Each year we receive hundreds of entries of all genres, all durations and all subjects from the 4-corners of the globe...and if you're a filmmaker we'd love to receive yours!
There's virtually no rules surrounding what types of films you enter but we do like them to be completed after Jan 1 2016...but look...we're wanting to screen the best of what we see so you can beat us down!
So, we'd love you to help us celebrate our 20th year with our biggest event to date.
We can't make it any easier to enter than what we have so for more information, just click here and you're on your way to hitting screens at what is regarded by many as Australia's filmmaker's festival!
We do however recommend entering via our own online portal here. Your entry information is not provided to any database and is contained wholly within the walls of Rev.
We've got two new titles August with a ton more to come. Fresh to your browser this month we're going back to 1999 with the wonderfully warm and moving portrait of Geraldine Cox - an unsung Australian hero running an orphanage in Cambodia in My Khmer Heart.
From 2002 we also present one of the most acclaimed and unusual documentaries of the year with Monteith McCollum's unique and deeply textured multi-award winning work Hybrid.
Both amazing films and both we're proud to present.
Also on the highlight list for August for your viewing enjoyment we have a selection of fine documentary works available exclusively on REVonDEMAND:
Click here for the complete catalogue of 250+ titles!
If you missed Rev, were only around for a bit or were around for the whole lot you can get a sense of what we were up to throughout the event by taking a look at our gallery.
With a packed schedule of workshops, parties, live shows, screenings and all manner of unusual activity there was never a dull moment - check it out here.
We always have a great time with Revel8 and it's such a great idea.
Get bunch of filmmakers making an in-camera Super 8 film, and a bunch of composers both of whom have never met, get the composers to score the film and bring them together for the first time the night they screen...it's so much fun.
This year's program was really great with some really well made works and great ideas. Take a look at them here.
It was our best year ever with record audiences, an absolutely packed program and industry and community events across town.
But we never sleep so we're already prepping ourselves for the opening of the international call for entries which will happen on September 1.
Don't forget also out monthly Australian showcase Australian Revelations on the last Monday of each month. Our next title will be announced shortly.
Finally we need to thank everybody - cinema staff, Rev staff, volunteers, audiences, guests, partners - everyone - for their support and enthusiasm.
A deep and dude due thanks to you all!
We've just cracked the 100 mark in the number of feature film and feature documentary titles available on our very own On Demand platform thanks to the addition of three more titles this month.
They include the great indie feature Monkey Warfare - which was our Opening night film way back in 2007, the lost and forgotten but enormously enjoyable low-budget Aussie horror film The Demonsamongus and from the director of Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst we bring you the gripping look at the conspiracy around the JFK assassination in Oswald's Ghost.
With REVonDEMAND there's no subscription, there's no harvesting your information, it's not part of a giant international company, but we do try and bring you the best in nearly 20 years of international independent cinema. It's a one of a kind initiative and we believe it to be one of the few things like it anywhere in the world associated with an international film festival.
We're very proud of it actually, but we're more proud of the voice it can bring to the films and filmmakers involved.
For July we'll also be bringing you one or two special sidebars to time with main event!
We're back with our monthly program of new and archival Australian films at the Perth Backlot.
Australian Revelations is an enormously successful program the also includes guest presentations, Q&A's and a local short film with every screening.
Including complimentary nibbles and drinks, it's a unique way to explore the best of Australian cinema with screenings of feature films and documentaries that rarely make it Australian screens.
It sells out every month and it's dedicated audience are almost like a family...so come along and be part of the gang!
Screenings take place on the last Monday of every month.
Two moving image works by Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt): Brilliant Noise and Black Rain, presented as part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival’s ongoing collaborative partnership with Fremantle Arts Centre.
Using scientific data, Semiconductor create powerful, evocative works that explore both art and science. In Brilliant Noise the artists use the data archives from solar observatories to create a stunning depiction of the sun, solar particles, solar wind, as white noise. Using time-lapse images, Semiconductor create a stunning representation of the sun, accompanied by a soundtrack that translates the brightness itself into sound. The overall effect, presented as a multi-channel work across three screens, is an evocative powerful work.
It's been a huge year f or the local industry and Screenwest look forward to everyone celebrating the great successes and unique vibe that is the local screen industry.
So on the closing night of Rev we're throwing a party where you can network, catch up with old chums, partake with drinks, sumptuous food and entertainment.
Taking place at the Old Perth Girl's School in East Perth it will also include the presenting of the Brian Beaton Award to a project that has been selected through a call for submissions. Designed to support stories of social impact, the lucky recipient will receive a cash prize plus tailored mentoring with some of WA's best filmmakers.
Wednesday 18 July
Old Perth Girl's School
Wellington St, East Perth 7pm- 11pm
Take a journey through nearly two decades of independent cinema with REVonDEMAND. There's more than 300 titles on show available that have been included in Rev since 1997 - many only available internationally here.
Many of the titles are free (incl all the shorts) and for Jly we're highlighting some of our favourite titles. Click on the posters below to go directly to the films and watch trailers.
On the left you'll see our featured July short, Leviathan Ages.
Viewing is not subscription based, we don't harvest any of your information and you don't need to sign up.
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2018 event wrapped
Wow...what a festival! After 14 days, a ton of parties, entertaining guests from around the planet, 200 or so films, live gigs, visual art exhibitions and a packed program the main event is done for this year.
But we never sleep so we'll be back with our next Australian Revelations monthly screening in August!
We need to extend deep and due respect to all our partners, audiences and supporters who make the event happen and we look forward to seeing you all at the various events we do throughout the year.