by Abhi Parasher
The 26th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival returns to Luna Cinemas Leederville from 12 – 16 July, 2023.
Since 1997, Rev has developed a reputation as Australia’s leading independent screen event continuously advocating for Australian screen culture and independent practice like no other.
The expertly curated Festival programme is a celebration of independent filmmakers who will challenge and entertain audiences of all ages with boundary pushing content you likely won’t see on a big screen anywhere else.
“We’re loving the ability to deliver a more compact and modular event – it’s of the time,” says Festival Director Richard Sowada.
“Compressing the event into five days with the same amount of films as before and following it on with four days of WA’s major VR, games and immersive technology event (XR:WA), builds a phenomenal critical mass across all screen-based media forms.”
Opening the Festival is US crime drama DEVIL’S PEAK – from Perth director, and Revelation Perth International Film Festival Ambassador, Ben Young (Hounds of Love, Extinction). Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn and Emma Booth and set in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, the screen adaptation of David Joy’s novel Where All Light Tends To Go follows eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely who is torn between his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.
Rev will also be presenting the WA premiere of Canadian comedy drama I LIKE MOVIES, the debut feature from director Chandler Levack, and MANIFESTO, a found footage film comprised entirely of often-shocking videos uploaded by Russian teenagers to social media platforms.
Having its World premiere screening is FRANK AND FRANK from Albany writer/director Adam Morris (Edward and Isabella); a bromance movie starring Myles Pollard and Trevor Jamieson filmed on location in Albany and Mt Barker, Western Australia.
Last but not least is the Perth premiere of the latest work from Aussie cinema samplers Soda_Jerk (Terror Nullius), HELLO DANKNESS, which skewers the years of the Trump presidency through a montage of hundreds of clips from popular culture.
The full programme for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2023 will be revealed early June. Tickets are on sale now at www.revelationfilmfest.org.
