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Accommodation Info
Click here or call Claudia on 02 4992 2420
Experience Dungog
Do you want to find out more about the life and history of a ridgy-didge country town? Click here to find out more.
Art In Dungog
Painter, sculptor and printmaker, Franck Gohier will be showing his work at the Wyndham Estate Festival Lounge. Born in Brittany, Franck move to Darwin as a young boy and continues to live in the Top End. Paintings provided courtesy of the Ray Hughes Gallery
Become a Volunteer
We are looking for eager, hard working, problem solving and film loving volunteers, ready and willing to lend a hand with this year’s Dungog Film Festival. Interested? Click here to email us or call 02 4992 2420.
Stars In Dungog
To Kabul And Back
Director Ian Hamilton and co-producer Anna Kelly have chosen the Dungog Film Festival for the World Premiere of their riveting and sought after new film Honeymoon in Kabul.
Ian took friend and fellow filmmaker Jamie Lewis to Afghanistan to shoot his debut feature.
Honeymoon in Kabul. The story follows the journey of clowndoctor Jean Paul Bell and Midwife Maggie Hearstch as they spend their honeymoon delivering aid and humour to the children of Afghanistan. In the process they find that delivering aid in Afghanistan can be as delicate and complex as any second marrige.
Awesome Waves In Dungog!
Best mates and cousins, Harry and Elko, are living the typical Aussie surfer’s dream: they’ve got the boards, the shorts, the look and the lingo… the only thing is - they can't bloody surf! Yes, they’re try-hards, kooks - they’re Hodads! They live hundreds of miles from the nearest beach and the closest they’ve ever come to a tube is at the local waterslides where they work! Join the filmmakers for a special work-in-progress screening of Hodads, the ultimate surf movie.
Dungog Launches 2008
Bitter & Twisted stars Leeanna Walsman, and Matt Newton with Festival Director Allanah Zitserman at the Sydney Launch of the 2008 Dungog Film Festival. Bitter & Twisted will have it's Australian Premiere in Dungog. The Christopher Weekes helmed drama has had the film industry buzzing after its Tribeca Film Festival screening in New York.
Men in Dungog
The Nothing Men (Dungog World Premiere), starring Colin Friels, David Field and Martin Dingle Wall, is the tale of six men trapped in a factory, impatiently waiting for their redundancy payments to come through. Forbidden to work or leave the factory, the film curls from a seductive beginning into a gripping and tense climax, as the workmates turn on each other when dark secrets are exposed. This powerful new thriller, from writer and director Mark Fitzpatrick, was shot using groundbreaking RED camera technology - an Aussie first.
Lawson The Movie... Soon
In The Raw has selected five new scripts from Australia's most exciting screenwriters including Lawson by acclaimed Newcastle poet Andrew Slattery.
Deaf at 14 and with an early tendency for poetry and alcohol, Henry’s is a compelling story that lends itself to the screen. Henry Lawson is a 32-year-old wiry introvert from the bush. He carries inside him the images and experiences of gold-diggers, shearers, madmen and ghosts. When Henry is thrust into the publishing limelight he becomes the darling of Sydney literature. But with success comes the increasing pressures for Henry to maintain his place in the spotlight forcing him to struggle with his natural inclination to return to the bush. He. Be there and see it first in the raw. >> READ MORE
Go Matildas!
Never Say Die Matildas will have its World Premiere in Dungog.
This exciting new documentary tells the inspiring story of the Matildas, the Australian Women’s Football Team, during their roller-coaster year in which, against all odds, they became one of the nation’s most successful sporting teams. From missing out on the Olympic Games, the resilient team fought to the bitter end to represent Australia with great pride in the FIFA Women’s World Cup China, 2007 Quarter Finals.