THE red carpet has been rolled up and the North Bellarine Film Festival is over for another year.<\/p>\n
Film buffs from across the Bellarine, Geelong and Melbourne attended the three-day event, which also attracted many filmmakers and actors.<\/p>\n
More than 100 people walked the red carpet opening night at a reception in the Potato Shed, Drysdale.<\/p>\n
City of Greater Geelong councillor Jim Mason officially opened the festival and said: \u201cThe City of Geelong is very proud to support this festival and looks forward to seeing it grow into another iconic cultural event for our region\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no more fitting place for the festival than here at the Potato Shed, Geelong\u2019s own beacon of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weekend screened 39 films at the Potato Shed and Portarlington Neighbourhood House, where an Animation + Experimental + Avant-Garde Program was held.<\/p>\n
A Shorts Program ran over two days and nine directors and actors attended the Saturday\u00a0program where they took part in a Q&A session facilitated by festival director Vic Ryall. Sunday\u2019s shorts program included many award-winning films from the recent Melbourne International Festival.<\/p>\n
Australian black comedy Brothers\u2019 Nest opened the festival, but it was Estonian\/Georgian film Tangerines that proved most popular of the feature films.<\/p>\n
While the anti-war film may have won the hearts of its audience, the short film Thalamos captured their imagination. The film was made in a garage in Melbourne and one of the helmets used in the sci-fi thriller took pride of place on the festival\u2019s yellow director chair.<\/p>\n
Although the lights now have dimmed on this year\u2019s highly successful event, the festival\u00a0team will be meeting soon to start planning for 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE red carpet has been rolled up and the North Bellarine Film Festival is over for another year. Film buffs from across the Bellarine, Geelong and Melbourne attended the three-day event, which also attracted many filmmakers and actors. More than 100 people walked the red carpet opening night at a reception in the Potato Shed, […]<\/p>\n