By Travis Johnson
From tomorrow, October 31, Cronulla hosts the Australian Music Week Film Festival, kicking off with Take Me to the River at Event Cinemas Cronulla, a documentary about the legacy of the Memphis music scene narrated by Terrence Howard.
The rest of the program, part of the Australian Music Week conference, is screening at GU Film House Cronulla, and includes the Steve Kilbey documentary Something Quite Peculiar; Play Your Gender, a look at the gender divide in the music industry; and a special 30th anniversary screening of the classic rock doco Australian Made.
Parallel to the documentary feature stream is a music video and short film program, plus appearances from special guest for Q&A’s screening introductions and more. The full program is as follows:
Feature Films
Take Me To The River (USA)
Play Your Gender (Canada)
Breaking The Mould (Australia) accompanied by audio engineering (Germany)
Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Times of Steve Kilbey (UK/Australia)
Decks and the City (Australia)
Garage Rockin’ Craze (Japan/Canada)
Australian Made (Australia)
Trenches of Rock (USA)
Short Film Program
Sound of the Future: HAITI (USA)
Adrift (Australia/France)
Shout at the Ground (New Zealand)
The Music Stops Here (UK)
Partycipation (UK)
Western Jubilee (USA)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Buzz (Australia)
Music Video Program
Wet Lips – Here If You Need
Suss Cunts – Shit Friend
Hachiku – Moonface
Curt Manor – Adelphi Hotel Nightmare
Daggy Man – A Lazy Kind of Pain
Dead Language – The Man Who Killed My Father
WAAX – Wild & Weak
Caves ft. Hannah Joy – Here We Are
Stevie and the Sleepers – Young Again
Cosmo Thundercat – Warning Bell
Vera Blue – Private
Explosions in the Sky – The Ecstatics
Confidence Man – Boyfriend
CLYPSO – YOLO
Hawksley Workman – Small Town Dracula
For full details and ticketing, hit up the official site.
