The Benalla International Women’s Day Committee is celebrating International Women’s Day this year by supporting the Swanpool Cinema Food and Film Night on Friday the 4th March 2016.
 
The cost is $30.00 for a two course dinner, prepared by the Swanpool Catering Team, plus the film “ Suffragette”.
 
A limited number of tickets from Swanpool Cinema has been purchased by the committee for the evening. To assist with travel from Benalla to Swanpool, a bus has been organized from Benalla for those purchasing tickets through the IWD Committee, at no extra cost.  The Bus will leave from Benalla Bus Lines, Nunn Street, Benalla at approximately 5:20pm and will return there after the movie.
 
Please contact Pamela O'Connor on 03 5768 2400 if you, your family and/or friends would like to attend - Pamela will arrange to collect your payment and issue you with a Ticket. 

The Friends of BPACC (Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centre) are holding a National Short Film Festival at BPACC on February 27 at 7.30 pm.

Last year’s 10 film entries came from all over Australia and varied in style, length and genre. The winner of last year’s festival was Venetia Taylor (Broken Hill) who received  $1,000 from the Friends of BPACC for her 2 minute comedy Counsellor  (Broken Hill).   Local resident Hayley Warnock received the Benalla Lions Club $500 encouragement award for her under 2 minutes fiction animation Top Delight.   Grace O’Brien (Wangaratta) picked up the $500.secondary student award from the Rotary Club of Benalla for Tradition, her fiction film under 8 minutes .  Don Percy (Melbourne) won the Friends of BPACC People’s Choice Award of $500 for his hilarious 7 minute comedy Makeover.
 
Judges this year are Frank Bruzzese (winner of the AACTA Award for Producing  Hamish & Andy and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering); Dave Forster (writer for Masterchef and international award winning  short film maker), and Polly Staniford from Aquarius films.  Polly has produced documentaries for the ABC; written and directed 10 short films; won the St. Kilda Short Film Festival with Joey and recently completed a feature film in Berlin

We would like to encourage  our local community to come along and support this initiative.

Adult Tickets $20.00
Students "     $10.00
Family    "      $50.00 
The cost includes a sumptuous supper prepared by the Friends of BPACC.


Anna Smith & Bernice Vance
www.benallashorts.com
Friends of BPACC committee