05 November 2008
Welcome to Big Screen 2008
COUNTDOWN TO
PORT AUGUSTA
Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
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10:00AM - SCHOOL SCREENING
Elephant Tales (G) 101min A moving and magical tale of two elephant brothers in search of their mother, and the flamingo, chimp and giraffe that they encounter as they roam the African plains.  FREE Cinema Augusta |
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12:30PM - SCHOOL SCREENING
Dr Plonk (G) 85min It is the great year 1907 and Dr Plonk, famous scientist and inventor calculates that the world will end in 101 years unless immediate action is taken.  FREE Cinema Augusta |
Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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10:00AM - SCHOOL SCREENING
Son of a Lion (PG) 92min Eleven-year old Niaz lives in remote mountains of Pakistan. Niaz doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of his father, a weapons maker. He dreams of going to school just as his mother had wanted. But Niaz's father Sher Alam, a former Mujahideen fighter in the war against Russia wants his son to toughen up and live a strict Muslim life. The family debate soon widens to the local community with both irreverent and serious discussions. FREE Cinema Augusta |
Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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6:30PM For 7:00PM screening - OPENING NIGHT & SNEAK PREVIEW
The Tender Hook (M) 103min A film noir set in stylised version of 1920's Sydney, The Tender Hook charts a young woman's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle. Femme fatale Iris, underworld figure McHeath and aspiring boxer Art fight it out in the nightclubs, docksides and boxing rings of a wild, Jazz Age Sydney. $10 includes refreshments served from 6:30PM Cinema Augusta |
Saturday, 13 September 2008 |
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11:30AM - FAMILY SCREENING
Napoleon (G) 80min Napoleon is a golden retriever pup who dreams of leaving the limits of the backyard to conquer the outback and to live with the wild dogs. $5 - includes popcorn & drink (kids only) Adults Free Cinema Augusta |
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1:15PM
SA Short Screen Awards 96min Now in its ninth year, the SASSA program includes some of the best short films made by local South Australian filmmakers. This year we include winners for Best Film You Better Watch Out, Best Documentary A Fighting Chance and Best Comedy Nightingale. Media Resource Centre staff will be available on this day to give film production and careers advice. Contact the MRC on 08 8410 0979 or info@mrc.org.au and www.mrc.org.au. FREE Cinema Augusta |
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3:00PM
Forbidden Lies (M) 107min Spinning murder, greed and literary scandal into a web that entangles us all, Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller for our time. $7 Cinema Augusta |
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7:00PM
Unfinished Sky (M) 91min A lyrical and sensual story set in a country town with a sinister secret. $7 Cinema Augusta |
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8:45PM
Black Water (MA) 103min While holidaying in Northern Australia, a group of friends are attacked by a crocodile. Stranded in a flooded mangrove swamp, the three holiday-makers must work out what to do to survive. $7 Cinema Augusta |
Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
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2:00PM - JEWELS FROM THE ARCHIVE
Bushfire Moon (G) 87min When eight-year old Ned O'Day mistakes a nasty, curmudgeonly ex-goldminer for Father Christmas, he sets in motion a series of events that saves his family's sheep farm from drought, brings feuding neighbours together and reforms a scoundrel. $7 Cinema Augusta |
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3:45PM
Children of the Silk Road (M) 125min Inspired by true events, The Children of the Silk Road tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. $7 Cinema Augusta |
