Australian Music Week Announces First Ever Film Festival

The first ever Australian Music Week Film Festival arrives this October, screening a program of World and Australian Premieres across two venues from October 31st until November 3rd. The festival accompanies the annual Australian Music Week conference, which takes over Cronulla Beach for three days just outside of Sydney.

The festival will open with the Australian Premiere of the documentary Take Me To The River, presented in conjunction with the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. In the acclaimed documentary, Terrence Howard narrates the tale of several generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians who have come together to create a historic new album they hope will transcend race and gender differences. The screening will take place at Event Cinemas on George Street at 7.30pm on Tuesday, 31st October.

The rest of the program will take over the GU Film House in Cronulla, with nightly feature screenings across three nights and a special short film and music video program to help close out the festival, showcasing filmmakers from Australia and all around the world. November 1st will open with a special program dedicated to women in music, with Play Your Gender (Canada) direct from the Melbourne International Film Festival as well as the world premiere of the Australian documentary Breaking The Mould, which features guest appearances from the likes of The Jezabels, Katie Noonan, The Grates, Jebediah, Abbe May, Stonefield, Grace Knight (Eurogliders), Regurgitator, Mia Dyson and Mental As Anything.

The full list of included films and music videos are below!

Feature Films
Take Me To The River (USA)
Play Your Gender (Canada)
Breaking The Mould (Australia) accompanied by audio engeneering (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 (NZ)
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

Tickets to all screenings are on sale now through Event Cinemas, with all screenings at GU Film House in Cronulla (located at 2 - 6 Cronulla Street) just $12 ($10 for CineBuzz members), plus applicable booking fees, while the opening night premiere at Event Cinemas on George Street will attract normal ticket prices.

For more details about the film festival, head HERE8.