Events

Film Event @ COFA

Penelope, a film by Ben Ferris, will be shown at COFA in a special HD screening on Thursday night on 5 November, with a special Q & A afterwards with director Ben Ferris, DOP James Barahanos, editor Karen Johnson, and lead actress Natalie Finderle.

The film was first screened at the 2009 Sydney Underground Film Festival earlier this year, and is a new study of the character of Penelope from Homer’s epic The Odyssey.

The idea for the film was born in Croatia. Shot entirely in Croatia (and performed in Croatian), Penelope recalls the twenty long years the wife of Greek king Odysseus endured during her husband's epic Trojan War journey. I fell in love with the mythological landscapes and people. Every time I would come back to Zagreb over the last few years the project would develop spontaneously explains writer and director Ben Ferris. Penelope is his first feature film. With his short film ‘ The Kitchen’ he won several awards in international film festivals while the short film ‘Ascension’ secured him the Grand Prix award in the 2004 ‘One Take Film Festival’ in Zagreb.

Natalie Finderle, an Australian-Croatian, stars as the titular character of Grecian myth. The film re-examines Penelope’s character, bridging legend with contemporary attitudes in “a mythic time and space.”

What: Film screening of Penelope
When: Thursday 5 November 2009 at 6pm
Where: COFA lecture theatre, EG02

FREE!

For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/

To view a trailer of Penelope, please visit: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cuczc7MJ0