Australian Education International, Australian Embassy Bangkok, in cooperation with the Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC), is organising ‘Seminar on Australian Films’ as part of the 5th Australian Film Festival. The seminar covers presentations and panel discussion of high profile scholar, film critics and columnists from both Australia and Thailand such as:
• “Australian Film Genres”, a presentation by Prof. Dr Bruce Molloy, Centre for Film, Television and Screen-based Media, Bond University, Queensland, Australia
“Australian film historian Professor Bruce Molloy of Bond University will deliver an illustrated address on Australian Film Genres. This address will analyse selected Australian feature films showing how significant film genres such as the war film, the comedy, the road movie, the crime film, the family melodrama and the western, have been adapted to reflect the Australian context and character. In his presentation, Professor Molloy will illustrate this process of generic adaptation with extracts from such Australian classics as Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee, Mad Max 2, Getting’ Square, Lantana and Ned Kelly. He will also discuss uniquely Australian developments, such as films about Aborigines and bushranging.”
• Panel Discussion on “Australian Films in View of Thai People” by Mr Kong Rithdee, Film Festival Explorer and Film Critic for the Bangkok Post newspaper; Mr Teepanun Petchsri, Creative Officer, Art House Film Department, Sahamongkol Film International and Film Critic for Manager newspaper.
Date: Friday 20 April 2007
Time: 12.30 -16.30
Venue: Auditorium, Thailand Creative and Design Centre (TCDC)
6th Floor, The Emporium Shopping Complex,
Sukhumvit 24, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok
For more information and booking, please contact
Australian Education Centre, Australian Embassy Bangkok
Tel. 0 2344 6486-9 or Email: [email protected]
