Image: Fresh from the Gold Coast Film Festival, the remake of Goodbye Pork Pie is another homely, energetic New Zealand film which could get a substantial audience.
The Australian Directors’ Guild is holding its annual awards dinner on Friday May 5, in Melbourne at the Sofitel Hotel. Some tickets are still available. The awards presentation costs $35; add $125 for the classy sit down dinner which gets a lot less stuffy as the evening wears on. Normally solitary and utterly focused on hunting, the rare Australian Screen Director will come together with her species for one mysterious night a year. Strangely, they have no objection to being observed, and will even consent to explain their strange collective rituals.