THE Canberra International Film Festival has been postponed until 2022.
According the president of the festival committee, Adele Chynoweth, Canberra’s longest running film festival, due to have opened on October 22 would have been the 24th edition of the event, and had been designed as a comeback after missing 2020 because of covid.
Festival director Andrew Pike said that the program planned for 2021 could be held over intact. The program, he said, would reflect the event’s role as one of Australia’s leading retrospective film events, presenting cinema classics in both digitally remastered form as well as in their original 35mm format.
“The essence of the festival is to re-discover our cinema heritage and to experience these films on the big screen,” Pike said, adding that a line-up of specialist guests would provide historical context for the audience through introductory talks and Q&As.
The festival is supported by the National Film and Sound Archive, the Friends of the NFSA, the Motion Picture Association, and private donors.
Information about new dates for the Festival will be notified in due course via ciff.com.au
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