Sydney Film Festival
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The Sydney Film Festival is a non-competitive film festival that started in 1954. The festival runs for two weeks each year in June and showcasing Australian, international and alternative films.
The first festival opened on June 11, 1954 and screened in four halls at Sydney University over four days. Attendance was at full capacity with 1,200 tickets sold at one guinea each.
The festival remained at Sydney University until 1968, at which time it moved to the Wintergarden in Rose Bay. In 1974 it moved to its current current main venue, the historic State Theatre in the centre of Sydney.
Members of the audience mostly purchase a subscription to the full two weeks but the number of single session tickets has been increasing since introduced in 2001.
Strict guidelines in relation to previous screenings of films means that audiences see films that haven't had general release. An audience award is nominated at the end of the festival and the Dendy short film awards occurs in the first day of the festival, with the winners announced at the opening night of the SFF.
References
External links
- Official Site (http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/)
- Unofficial site (http://www.popplanet.biz/)
- Sydney Film Festival Background and and Controversies (http://www.ukhotmovies.com/film-festivals/sydney-film-festival/)
- Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/)