47th Festival 2000

For the first time in festival history, a pay-as-you-go model was introduced for select screenings. The subscriber model that had been with the festival since its first year showed its first signs of changing to meet modern demand. In contrast to today, where every screening has a pay-as-you go option, the earlier festivals relied upon this sense of a community, a large film society that only met two weeks a year.

Films screened included Errol Morris’ Mr. Death, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, the omnibus film Tube Tales, Mary Harron’s American Psycho and Julien Temple’s Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury.

Retrospectives screened were tributes to Max Ophüls and Alan Clarke, as well as a focus on cinema from Holland.

The Ian McPherson lecture was delivered by Professor Tom O’Regan of Griffith University.

Opening Night Film: Better Than Sex (directed by Jonathan Teplitzky)

Closing Night Films: My Mother Frank (directed by Mark Lamprell) and High Fidelity (directed by Stephen Frears)

Award Winners

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (General):

Restoration, directed by Cordelia Beresford

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (Fiction over 15 minutes):

Perfect Pale Blue, directed by Alicia Walsh

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (Fiction under 15 minutes):

Kulli Foot, directed by Brendan Fletcher

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (Documentary):

Chasing Buddha, directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson

Yoram Gross Animation Award:

Brother, directed by Adam Elliott

NSW Film and Television Office Rouben Mamoulian Award

Ethnic Affairs Commission (EAC) Award:

Dust, directed by Ivan Sen

NSW Film and Television Office Rouben Mamoulian Award:

Amiel Courtin-Wilson, director of Chasing Buddha