By Margaret Maccoll
The second Noosa International Film Festival (NIFF) was hailed a success with about 2000 people, including 50 filmmakers, attending four days of films and events across five venues.
Some notable events included the Inside Cinema Q&A with film director Rolf de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, Ten Canoes) and award-winning sound designer James Currie (Ten Canoes, Charlie’s Country).
They spoke about their various journeys along different career paths before they found their way into film making during the 1970s and ’80s and the challenges of making a career from feature films.
“We made it up as we went along,” James said. “We didn’t play by the rules. We didn’t know what the rules were.”
Rolf said it was important to him to make a film he cared about. It took him 10 years to create Bad Boy Bubby, financing it through different jobs and its acclaim gave him the credibility to progress.
Other highlights included the screening of The English Patient presented by Academy Award nominee cinematographer John Seale and the Friday night blue carpet opening party.
Festival president Campbell Corfe said he was humbled by feedback from James Currie who described it as the “friendly festival” saying he and Rolf were “enamoured by the festival, excellent venues and we were both impressed by your hard-working squad of volunteers that contributed to the festival”.
