The title of the article is “2013 IIFF -
Peter Weir Masterclass”, it was Posted on Friday April 12,
2013, 18:26 by Simon Braund in Under The Radar. This article is devoted to the IIFF Winner film
Among the many screenings yesterday at the festival, one that struck a particular chord was F Type Film, which is in competition for the FACE Human Rights Award.
Produced by Turkish rock band and political activists Grup Yorum, it’s a compilation of nine short films by ten directors addressing the conditions in Turkey’s notorious F Type prisons (or F-type High Security Closed Institutions for the Execution of Sentences, as they are officially known).
Director Hu[umlaut]seyin Karabev described how he an other filmmakers worked closely with F Type inmates to expose conditions in the prisons. One audience member, who had served six years in an F Type, thanked Karabev for the film’s accuracy.
The highlight of the festival was an illuminating and highly entertaining master class by director Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Truman Show, Master And Commander). One story had particular relevance for the setting - how he came to make 1981’s Gallipoli, his haunting dramatization of the World War I campaign, waged by Allied forces, many of them Australians and New Zealanders, to seize Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula and take control of the Dardanelles. The action was a disaster, a brutal, months-long stalemate that resulted in horrific casualties on both sides.
I think the film can impressed everybody. Because when you go to a place where so many young men have died, you can feel them there. And you want to see more and more.
Among the many screenings yesterday at the festival, one that struck a particular chord was F Type Film, which is in competition for the FACE Human Rights Award.
Produced by Turkish rock band and political activists Grup Yorum, it’s a compilation of nine short films by ten directors addressing the conditions in Turkey’s notorious F Type prisons (or F-type High Security Closed Institutions for the Execution of Sentences, as they are officially known).
Director Hu[umlaut]seyin Karabev described how he an other filmmakers worked closely with F Type inmates to expose conditions in the prisons. One audience member, who had served six years in an F Type, thanked Karabev for the film’s accuracy.
The highlight of the festival was an illuminating and highly entertaining master class by director Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Witness, The Truman Show, Master And Commander). One story had particular relevance for the setting - how he came to make 1981’s Gallipoli, his haunting dramatization of the World War I campaign, waged by Allied forces, many of them Australians and New Zealanders, to seize Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula and take control of the Dardanelles. The action was a disaster, a brutal, months-long stalemate that resulted in horrific casualties on both sides.
I think the film can impressed everybody. Because when you go to a place where so many young men have died, you can feel them there. And you want to see more and more.
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