Brisbane International Film Festival: tears before bedtime for a bartered bride?
Whether BIFF or APSA turns out to be the Godzilla of the Brisbane festival scene is a question yet to be determined.
30 Jun 2014 12:00
Sarah Ward
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Image: frame from the original Godzilla, to screen at BAPFF.
At a press conference just weeks after Screen Queensland handed responsibility for the city’s film festival over to Brisbane Marketing, some of the first words from Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Graham Quirk to a small crowd were jovially blunt. “The BIFF is dead, long live the BAPFF.”
Sarah Ward is a freelance film critic, arts and culture writer, and film festival organiser. She is the Australia-based critic for Screen International, a film reviewer and writer for ArtsHub, the weekend editor and a senior writer for Concrete Playground, a writer for the Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz, and a contributor to SBS, SBS Movies and Flicks Australia. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Junkee, FilmInk, Birth.Movies.Death, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and the World Film Locations book series. She is also the editor of Trespass Magazine, a film and TV critic for ABC radio Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and has worked with the Brisbane International Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Follow her on Twitter: @swardplay
