InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Top comedians and podcasters bound for the Barossa, new dates for Adelaide Film Festival youth program, ActNow Theatre’s latest venture, a departure at the ASO, and a slide night with a difference for SALA.
Adelaide Festival
This nuanced and gentle farewell film from charismatic actor David Gulpilil offers fascinating insights into the way a man as celebrated as he is continues to inhabit his own culture, writes Penelope Debelle.
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From a childhood spent immersed in Yolngu culture, to celebrity, dining with the Queen and time in prison, David Gulpilil has lived the extremes. In a new documentary, the actor’s extraordinary life is offered as a final gift from this significant national storyteller.
Adelaide Film Festival is set to premiere a new documentary celebrating 150 years of the Port Adelaide Football Club later this month, with past and present club heroes attending some of the special screenings.
The Adelaide Film Festival is on track for a 20 per cent increase in box office takings in 2020, with CEO and creative director Mat Kesting describing it as a ‘truly remarkable’ result given the challenges created by COVID-19.
Deeply personal archival footage of celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks allows fans a glimpse of the complicated individual beyond the pages of his books.
This Asian feature film starts off as a quirky love story between two ‘weirdos’ but makes a risky gear change mid-romance.
