Adelaide Film Festival is set to be one of the only events of its kind in 2020, ready to defy the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to welcome crowds back to cinemas despite the global crisis.
Adelaide Film Festival is set to defy the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming one of the first events to welcome audiences back to cinemas despite the global crisis.It is one of few film festivals going ahead in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemicAdelaide-raised movie star Tilda Cobham-Hervey's movie, I Am Woman, is one of the films set to screen at the festival.
"I got pretty sick of being in America; we were basically in quarantine for about five months, so I didn't actually see real humans apart from my partner for five months," she told ABC News. "It's sort of impossible to film in Los Angeles; I know some productions are starting to go back with some very strict rules and protocols, but it's very challenging."The pandemic also wrecked the release plans for Cobham-Hervey's latest film, I Am Woman, which saw her play the role of Australian singer Helen Reddy and her trip to the top.
"Incredibly nerve-wracking, still nervous about it — it was really hard playing a real person," she said. "We've been very careful with our box office forecasting and we've made adjustments to make that work," he said."There are very few film festivals internationally that have been able to proceed, so there is indeed a great opportunity for extra buzz around and we're really quite lucky in South Australia to be able to proceed in the cinema."The 2020 festival includes 22 world premieres, 27 Australian premieres and 54 feature films from more than 40 countries.
The film is one of the first to depict the year 2020 and how London in particular was hit by the coronavirus, before Black Lives Matter protests began.
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