Film Screenings
In 2022 the Whitsundays Arts Festival is adding the art of cinema to take advantage of the opening of the Proserpine Entertainment Centre, offering state-of-the-art digital projection on the big screen.
In light of the theme 'Memories,' the Festival presents CELESTE on Saturday 24 September, which screened at Cannes Film Festival and many other international film festivals and was shot at the amazing Paronella Park in North Queensland.
On Sunday 25 September, Whitsundays Arts Festival is partnering with Film & Arts Mackay to bring the International Film Festival to Proserpine with the critically acclaimed Spanish drama PARALLEL MOTHERS by award-winning director Pedro Almodovar.
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Whitsundays Arts Festival Members are able to access a ticket discount on both film screenings. Sign up now to receive the special code for event and workshop discounts, and the 2022 Festival t-shirt.
Historical Photo Exhibition at Proserpine Entertainment Centre
Whitsundays Arts Festival is delighted to present an exhibition of historic photos kindly provided by long-time resident Peter Crossley and Silvio Balma. In line with the Festival theme ‘Memories’, we are hoping that these photos will evoke recollections of the “time before.” The photo exhibition can be viewed at the Proserpine Entertainment Centre during the weekend of the film screenings, 24-25 September.
CELESTE
Set in the bohemian world of opera, it is a story of a family falling apart coming together again and their last chance to keep a decaying world alive.
Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Celeste is about to return to the stage for her final performance. Her stepson Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives admidst the perparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered.
Celeste wants Jack to stay at the estate but needs him to perform one last request.
7:30pm - 9:15pm, 24th September 2022
Proserpine Entertainment Centre
14 Main Street, Proserpine
Tickets from $15 - $20
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Special guest for the screening of CELESTE is Paronella Park Marketing Manager Bridget Evans, part of the Evans family who own and operate Paronella Park, and who was there during the filming of CELESTE. Bridget will be sharing anecdotes from the time Paronella Park was turned into a film set.
Presented by Whitsunday Regional Council as part of the Whitsundays Arts Festival.
PARALLEL MOTHERS
Film & Arts Mackay and Whitsundays Arts Festival bring the Mackay International Film Festival to Proserpine with the critically acclaimed Spanish drama PARALLEL MOTHERS by award-winning director Pedro Almodovar. In PARALLEL MOTHERS, Almodovar continues his fascination with the joys and complexities of motherhood in his seventh collaboration with Penelope Cruz . This engrossing and vibrantly shot melodrama about two very different women whose lives intersect when they give birth on the same day is a beautifully constructed story full of twists and turns, some predictable, others not. And with outstanding cinematography, musical score and costume design, we are in for an unmissable experience.
”Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy”. 5 stars. The Guardian
1:30pm - 3:30pm, 25th September 2022
Proserpine Entertainment Centre
14 Main Street, Proserpine
Tickets from $15 - $80 (incl. Mackay transfer & lunch)
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Presented by Film & Arts Mackay as part of the Whitsundays Arts Festival. This project was made possible by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia, administered in Queensland by Flying Arts Alliance.