Hilary Swank’s SA-made sci-fi thriller I Am Mother and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale to premiere at Adelaide Film Festival
SA-MADE sci-fi thriller I Am Mother and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale are among the movies set to premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
HILARY Swank’s SA-made sci-fi thriller I Am Mother and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale are among the movies which will premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October.
They join the much-anticipatedHotel Mumbai, featuring Hollywood star Dev Patel and Adelaide’s Tilda Cobham-Hervey, which will open the festival on October 10, in the event’s star-studded lineup.
It’s still unconfirmed whether two-time Oscar winner Swank, who spent three weeks last year on a hi-tech sci-fi set at Adelaide Studios shooting the independent film, will return to Adelaide for the “work-in-progress” gala screening on October 12.
Directed by West Australian Grant Sputore, I Am Mother is about a lonely young girl raised by a robot mother.
The Nightingale, the follow-up to Kent’s 2014 SA-made debut, The Babadook, will hold its Australian premiere on October 13, direct from the Venice Film Festival. It’s the only Australian film selected to compete at prestigious Venice festival, held from August 29 to September 8, and Kent is the only female director recognised.
A dark story of a young woman bent on revenge after a terrible act of violence is committed against her family, The Nightingale stars Adelaide’s Damon Herriman, the music director is Adelaide’s Jed Kurzel and the post production and completion was all done at Adelaide’s Kojo.
Former Adelaide Hollywood producer Bruna Papandrea (Gone Girl, Big Little Lies) and her husband Steve Hutensky also joined Australian producer Kristina Ceyton on The Nightingale’s production team.
Other notable additions to the festival lineup include feature documentary, She Who Must Be Obeyed about Freda Glynn, and The Waiting Room, a cinematic installation by acclaimed filmmakers Molly Reynolds and Rolf de Heer.
The full festival programme, juries and special guests will be announced in next month.
Tickets are now on sale at adelaidefilmfestival.org