FILMS BY THEMES 2018 PROGRAMME
CALL OF THE WILD 2018
CALL OF THE WILD is supported by McArthur Financial, a boutique financial planning firm based in Launceston, offering simple solutions for a complex world. McArthur Financial believes that everyone should have the opportunity to appoint a trusted adviser in the journey to financial freedom.
DOCUMENTARY
MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 10:15AM
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, a world to be shunned, not sought out.
FEATURE
GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 2:30PM
Fellipe Barbosa’s follow-up to his much-acclaimed debut “Casa Grande” is based on school friend Gabriel Buchmann, who traveled to Africa and died on the slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje in 2009.
DOCUMENTARY
TAKE EVERY WAVE – THE LIFE OF LAIRD HAMILTON
SUNDAY 10:15AM
This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to greatness – and the cost that comes with it.
DOCUMENTARY
DON’T LOOK DOWN
SUNDAY 12:00PM
Don’t Look Down is the untold story behind Sir Richard Branson’s daring attempts to cross the Atlantic and Pacific in the mid 80s and early 90s in the world’s largest hot air balloon.
