The 8th annual Capricorn Film Festival will draw back the curtain with its Opening Night Premiere of feature film, The Land at Yeppoon Town Hall on Wednesday 18th January from 6.45pm. A powerful Australian drama of family, secrets, and threatened stability, The Land’s Cameron Stewart (actor, writer and producer) with Steve Rodgers (actor, writer and producer) will available for post screening Q&A via zoom.
The Land tells the story of Jeremy (Steve Rodgers) and Neets who are living the dream; successful careers, a three-bedroom house, three adorable children and fourteen years into a marriage that seems content – then Simon (Cameron Stewart) calls. He’s coming home, bringing with him a secret Jeremy thought they long put to rest. Simon wants to confess to a rape they committed twenty years ago at university. What will Jeremy do when everything he loves is threatened by his best friend’s determination to atone for a crime they committed so long ago?
Festival Director Luke Graham say opening night film The Land is sure to be a hit with the local community.
“We’re expecting that it will be a moving drama that questions the head and pulls on the heart strings,” Luke Graham.
Yeppoon will be a hive of film industry activity and networking opportunities with local, intrastate and interstate filmmakers arriving to screen their films in the event that is generously supported by Livingstone Shire Council, Regional Arts Australia, Screen Queensland, Tourism and Events Queensland, RADF and Keppel Coast Arts.
“Our supporters, both financial and in-kind, give us the opportunity to bring an exciting event to the Capricorn region, and inspire a new generation of story tellers.” Luke Graham.
