The Australian premiere of crime thriller Devil’s Peak, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright, headlines the primary launch of movies screening on the twenty sixth Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July.
Devil’s Peak is the newest characteristic from Perth director Ben Young, whose earlier work has included the acclaimed thriller Hounds of Love and the Netflix sci-fi flick Extinction, which starred Lizzy Caplan and Michael Pena.
Based on the novel Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy, Devil’s Peak sees Thornton play the kingpin of a meth operation in a small city in North Carolina.
He’s additionally the daddy to a child (performed by Sean Penn’s son, Hopper) at risk of following in his previous man’s footsteps.
Though the movie was shot within the US, Young accomplished sound and post-production work proper right here in WA, so staging the Aussie premiere is a coup for Rev’s opening evening.
The first peek at this 12 months’s competition program additionally reveals different treats for followers of boundary-pushing cinema, together with the WA premiere of the Canadian comedy, I Like Movies, and the experimental political fable, Hello Dankness.
Chandler Levack’s I Like Movies is about within the early 2000s, and is a couple of socially inept 17-year-old who will get a job in a video rental retailer, whereas Hello Dankness is comprised fully of a whole bunch of film samples, and payments itself as half political satire, half zombie stoner movie.
Rev has all the time supplied a slate of fascinating factual content material and this 12 months is not any totally different, with the confronting documentary Manifesto, compiled from movies uploaded to social media by Russian teenagers as a automobile for inspecting violence and oppression in that nation.
The competition has additionally been a priceless platform for micro-budget filmmaking over time, and one such spotlight at Rev this 12 months would be the Australian premiere of Frank and Frank, which was shot in Albany and Mt Barker by author/director Adam Morris, and stars Myles Pollard and Trevor Jamieson.
WA movies shall be additional celebrated at Rev’s Westralia Day program, earlier than the competition involves an in depth with the annual Get Your Shorts On! Event for rising West Aussie filmmakers.
The full programme for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival shall be revealed early June. Tickets for the opening evening and Get Your Shorts On! are on sale now at revelationfilmfest.org.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
