‘There’s absolutely no one there’: Sydney Film Festival postpones to November | gmaddox
“The city feels like a film set,” the chief executive of Sydney Film Festival said. “There’s absolutely no one there. It’s weird.”
“Shared experience of film in cinemas has always been the guiding principle”: Sydney Film Festival chief executive Leigh Small outside the State Theatre.The grand old theatre was due to be hosting the delayed Sydney Film Festival later this month but the lockdown has forced a further postponement until November.While COVID-19 meant the festival ran online last year – followed by a short summer season in January – Small said the team was keen to get back to cinemas.
Small said audience sizes in November would be determined by the NSW Health guidelines and masks were likely to be required, as they were during the summer season.be it theatre, music or cinema – that they follow all the rules and mask-wearing really well,” she said.that did not get to start before lockdown – will still be the main venue but other cinemas might need to change.
Among the films announced so far are banned Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly shot death penalty drama
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