Official Gold Coast Film Festival 2014 Trailer
For the third year in a row, The Otaku’s Study is incredibly excited about checking out and covering everything on offer at the annual Gold Coast Film Festival, set to take place from April 9th to 19th. With a brand new venue, the festival seeks to offer film-goers some fantastic local and international films. This is in addition to helping support budding filmmakers with a variety of workshops, guest lectures and other events.
With the festival only a few months away, you might be wondering when we will hear what films and events will be included in the eleven-day program? In a presentation earlier this evening, Festival Director Kylie Pascoe announced that they plan to release the schedule starting late-February 2015. At the moment there are no clues about what could be in their line-up.
The most recent Gold Coast Film Festival’s have been held at Pacific Fair Birch Carroll and Coyle, which has now temporarily closed for a major shopping centre renovation. Therefore the main venue for GCFF ’15 will be the Gold Coast Arts Centre, who have held out-of-festival screenings for Predestination and Our Man in Tehran. Additional screenings will be held at Birch Carroll and Coyle at Coolangatta, with free screenings to be held at other locations across the Gold Coast.
Don’t expect the festival to be exclusively about live action either. If you are an anime fan, there is usually a screening or two that can be hard to miss. In 2013 the world premiere of Makoto Shinkai’s The Garden of Words was hosted by the festival, while in 2014 they had English-language screenings of Bayonetta: Bloody Fate and Anime Mirai 2013 before anywhere else in the world.
