http://www.destfest.com Destination Film Festival at CarriageWorks | Three afternoons of film + talk Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:19:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To all the filmmakers, speakers, Carriageworks staff, DestFest audience, blog contributors and friends of DestFest -- A GIANT thank you again for your participation in the very first Destination Film Festival this year. It was a big success; the films and panel discussions were incredibly well received by the audience, media ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-13-0712-thank-you-and-goodnight/ So looking forward to tomorrow - the panel discussion is promising to be really exciting and I can't wait to a) See Four-Eyed Monsters blown up BIG on the screen, and b) introduce it to an audience who haven't seen it before - the best part of the job as ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-12-0712-last-day-tomorrow/ Many thanks to the 'party faithful' (!) who turned out in droves to support the first instalment of Destination Film Festival at Carriageworks on what turned out to be the Biggest Election Day witnessed in Australia in a couple of decades... DestFest was a bit of a primer for the ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-10-2611-true-believers/ The goodwill towards this new Destination has been overwhelming. People are rediscovering the idea that being in film doesn't mean having to desperately claw your way to the top of the heap at all costs, but rather that you can contribute something individually that becomes part of something bigger, that a ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-10-2011-2-more-sleeps/ Big Brand Film Festival: “I’m going to focus on features and government funded films as if no other films are made in Australia (or that other films made in Australia don’t really count). DestFest: “I won’t”. BBFF: “I’m going to hold a panel about how to compete with your fellow ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-9-2011-vote-1-destfest/ Because we need to foster a sense of film community (not just competition). Because we need to foster a sense of film culture (not just industry). Because we need to encourage open, honest, passionate critical debate and discussion about our film culture, not private 'bitching' and frustration behind closed doors. Because festival programming ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-8-1211-random-thoughts-on-why-another-festival/ The "New York Girl Of My Dreams" hit headlines this week Sydney Morning Herald: www.smh.com.au/news/technology/i-had-to-meet-him/2007/11/11/1194766510016.htm NY Girl of my Dreams: www.nygirlofmydreams.com Okay, so 'He' sees a girl and he reckons she's hot - or falls in love at first sight - whatever... 'She' leaves the train carriage before they have time to ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-7-1211-romance-or-cyber-stalking/ Just announced! DestFest is pleased to announce the that co-creators of Hands Hyland will be in attendance Week 2 of DestFest: Jeremy Hyland (co-director), Aaron Kiernan (co-director) plus DOP/co-director Nathan Lewis, just off the plane from London. Hands Hyland is the winner of the 2006 Insight 300 Seconds Short Film ... http://www.destfest.com/more-news-more-local-filmmakers-in-attendance/ When I was programming Perth Revelation International Film Festival in July I selected a terrific DIY documentary callled DIY or DIE: How To Survive As An Independent Artist. It might seem old school to some, stating the obvious about the DIY 'anti-corporate' ethos, but I felt it possessed some inspiring ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-5-121107-diy-or-die/ You Tube comes in for all kinds of criticism - a royal "time waster" for workers, a platform for "losers", "ne'er do wells " and crazed "depraved" souls and outcasts who reveal their grim messages about humanity, hysterics, neuroses and pyschoses... The place where bottom trawlers post the detritus, flotsam and jetsam ... http://www.destfest.com/megans-blog-5-the-new-cinema/