Adelaide-born Hollywood producer Bruna Papandrea to be honoured at 2020 Adelaide Film Festival
Trailblazing Hollywood producer Bruna Papandrea will be honoured for her work on and off screen at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival as the event launches its 2020 program.
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Trailblazing Hollywood producer Bruna Papandrea will be honoured for her work on and off screen at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
Adelaide-born Papandrea will receive the Don Dunstan Award for her outstanding contribution to Australian screen culture at the event next month and will attend a Q&A session with festival patron Margaret Pomeranz on October 17.
AFF creative director Mat Kesting said award-winning Papandrea, who grew up in Elizabeth before going on to make acclaimed movies such as Gone Girl and The Nightingale, was a worthy recipient for her role in striving towards gender equality in Hollywood.
“Bruna is most deserving of the award, having made a wonderful contribution to the Australian screen industry producing films both here and internationally,” he said.
“Bruna has been a leader in championing women both behind and in front of the camera and we feel has played a critical role in progressing gender equality in the industry.”
Papandrea co-founded production company Pacific Standard with US actress Reese Witherspoon in 2012, which focused on creating female-centric projects including Emmy award-winning TV series Big Little Lies. She branched out in 2018 with her new business Made Up Stories, which continued the theme of female empowerment in the film industry.
The biennial film festival launched their full program today ahead of the October 14-25 event, which is set to be one of the world’s first major film festivals to take place in cinemas post COVID-19.
Among the highlights are the opening night premiere of locally-made sci-fi thriller 2067, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten and Deborah Mailman, and the closing night screening of Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner Minari.
A new behind-the-scenes documentary on the Port Adelaide Football Club, This is Port Adelaide, directed by Nicole Miller, is also part of the lineup.
Described as a “universal story about belonging to your tribe and to something bigger than yourself”, the film will screen after the festival in November at Alberton Oval and Palace Nova East End.
Another notable addition to the program is Yer Old Faither, a documentary by Adelaide Fringe Festival director Heather Croall about her father John Croall, a Glaswegian who immigrated to Whyalla.
The story of international cycling commentator Phil Liggett, who has covered 44 Tours de France and 15 Olympic Games, will take centre stage in documentary The Voice of Cycling. It was filmed during the 2019 Tour de France and this year’s Tour Down Under in Adelaide.
The 12-day film feast will host 22 world premieres, 27 Australian premieres and a total of 54 feature films from more than 40 countries.
For more information, visit adelaidefilmfestival.org