The Dinner Party to screen at Dendy Canberra
The film The Dinner Party will screen at Dendy Cinemas in Canberra, after a successful debut at the National Film and Sound Archive.
“Trying to get this film into cinemas has been a hard push, mainly because we are unknown filmmakers, from a city [Canberra] that has seen little if any film come out of it and therefore an unknown market, but due to increasing demand for people to see it on the big screen, it will start screening at Dendy Canberra starting on February 21,” ” producer Brendan Sloane told Encore.
The fim’s national release through PackScreen was cancelled last year.
“After approaching many cinemas in Australia and not releasing as planned in 2010, I hooked up with Accent for a DVD release but held onto the cinema rights as I always believed this film would launch in Canberra,” explained Sloane. “The NFSA gave me a premiere and a Saturday matinee; they packed out to the point where cast, friends and family could not get tickets so at this point. All of a sudden the film was seen by people and the local – and now national – media as a success. Word started spreading and Dendy were aware, so when I called them to ask for screenings times, they gave me two screenings with the ability to have more if these screenings also pack out.”
SOLD OUT AGAIN !
Monday nights screening was sold out at Dendy Canberra and Wednesday nights screening is almost sold out.
Dendy Canberra will now be running the film on Monday’s and Wednesdays indefinately at 6:45pm each night
Well done dude…top stuff
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about at all”
Oscar Wilde
Screenings of THE DINNER PARTY will now continue indefinately at Dendy Canberra. Thanks to the sold out screenings at the NFSA and now at Dendy, we will be showing the film every Monday and Wednesday until people stop turning up.
Watch out for the upcoming interview and article in the new Empire magazine.
As per usual there is a tonne of great feedback for Lara Cox’s performance and Oonagh Sherrard’s musical score. Australian audiences have also taken to Kai Harris’s performance as the larakkin, Freddy in the film – it seems the humour of Freddy is being very well recieved and enjoyed – well done Kai!
and thanks Dolly !