The Board of the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF) today announced that Amanda Duthie will take over as Director and CEO following Katrina Sedgwick's departure at the end of 2011.   Currently the Content Head of Arts and Entertainment at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Amanda Duthie is one of Australia's leading figures in the film and entertainment industry and possesses an extraordinary depth of experience and expertise in the film and telev...

ABC TV Arts & BigPond Adelaide Film Festival announce application guidelines for $400,000 partnershipABC TV Arts & Entertainment and the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) have released guidelines for the Hive Production Fund. The Fund will support the production of selected arts-based films and documentaries. ABC TV and the AFF will each contribute $200,000 to the Fund. Inspired out of The Hive, a cross-artform development lab run earlier this year at AFF, this $400,000 funding initiative is designed...

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THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS TO THE ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL BOARD Adelaide Film Festival Chairman Cheryl Bart announced today that the Premier of South Australia, the Hon Mike Rann has appointed three dynamic new members to the Board of the Adelaide Film Festival - Sue Maslin, Vivienne Skinner & Wayne Lewis.Mr Wayne Lewis, founding member and director of Rising Sun Pictures, has been at the forefront, internationally, in the field of film visual effects and computer-generated animation. Ms Sue Maslin...

Adelaide Film Festival Director Katrina Sedgwick said, ‘With a film festival on every corner we are very pleased that in such a short time we have been able to program Adelaide’s differently and receive such a positive response in the press, from the film industry and the public alike.'Audience attendances at screenings for the biennial 2005 Adelaide Film Festival rose by approximately 96% on those of the 2003 event. The 2005 Adelaide Film Festival recorded total screening attendances of mor...