THE 2024 Swan Hill Film Festival will be showing three movies at Showbiz Cinemas with proceeds going towards the Swan Hill Fight Cancer Foundation.
On Friday, October 25, at 6:45pm, people can catch small indie film Janet Planet on the big screen.
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, her debut film is a mother and daughter coming-of-age story exploring girlhood and womanhood.
Set in 1991, the film follows 11-year-old Lacey and single mother Janet in the woods of Massachusetts.
As Janet finds her daughter Lacey retreating into her own vivid imagination and clinging to her to escape dealing with the outside world, the film explores how the relationship between the two changes over the summer.
On Saturday, October 26, at 2pm, relive the nostalgia and repeat some famous catchphrases as the Australian classic The Castle will be showing on the big screen.
And if you haven’t seen it yet, find out why the the film has etched itself into Australian pop-culture.
The comedy sees the Kerrigans – a working class family form Melbourne – being ordered to vacate their family home near the Tullermarine Airport due to expansion plans. With the odds against them, father of the family Darryl Kerrigan takes the battle to save their family home to the high court.
Also on Saturday at 6:15pm, those who like something more theatrical, can watch Steven Spielberg’s 2021 adaptation of the classic 1957 musical West Side Story.
The film features a talented cast with Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort playing the two leading characters of the film.
The film is a tale of forbidden love and explores the rivalry between the two leads who are from different ethnic backgrounds and street gangs – the Jets and the Sharks.
Proceeds of the sale of tickets will go towards Fight Cancer Foundation which maintains the Rotary House Accommodation Centre in North Melbourne.
The centre is used to accommodate family members or guardians of cancer patients. It is near Melbourne’s major hospitals including The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Tickets are available at: www.showbizcinemas.com.au
