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Maeve Dermody
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Maeve Dermody is an Australian actress. After a film appearance as a child, her acting career has included work in Australian television, theatre, short films. She characterizes her own acting goal as to be able to play different characters every time and she is the daughter of Susan Murphy Dermody, a film theorist, historian, and director. Dermody attended Mosman High School in Sydney with a near-perfect UAI, while still in high school, Dermody began getting roles in Australian television series such as All Saints, and in short films. Her first major role was in the independent thriller Black Water. Dermodys performance in Black Water earned her nominations for Best Supporting Actress awards in the Australian film industry. Her next major role was in Beautiful Kate, for which she was again nominated for the AFI Best Supporting Actress Award. She had a role in the 2010 well-received film Griff the Invisible. In 2013, Dermody starred in the 10-part TV series drama Serangoon Road as Claire Simpson who is married to Frank, at Christmas,2015, Dermody starred as Vera Claythorne in BBC Ones version of Agatha Christies thriller And Then There Were None. Maeve Dermody at the Internet Movie Database
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Romantic comedy film
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Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is a movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily. Another definition states that its primary distinguishing feature is a plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. Romantic comedy films are a genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. However a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies, a wedding-bells, fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory. The basic plot of a comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other, the protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together. While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some effort to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other, the couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together happily ever after. The ending of a comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists lives. There are many variations on this basic plotline, sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each others arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character. Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, the basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Some comedy films, such as Knocked Up, combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, often known as bromance, such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include American Pie 2 and even Wedding Crashers, romantic comedies have begun to spread out of their conventional and traditional structure into other territory
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Footscray, Victoria
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Footscray is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Australia,5 km from Melbournes Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong, at the 2011 Census, Footscray had a population of 13,203. Footscray is characterised by a diverse, multicultural central shopping area, which reflects the successive waves of immigration experienced by Melbourne. Once a centre for Greek, Italian and former Yugoslavian migrants, it became a hub for Vietnamese and East African immigrants in Melbourne. Footscray is named after Foots Cray, on the River Cray in London, Footscray is part of the City of Maribyrnong and was built largely on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation. For thousands of years, Footscray was the place of the lands of the Yalukit-willan, the Marin-balluk. Koories stalked game, collected food and fished along the junction, estuaries, swamps. The first European to visit the area was Charles Grimes in 1803, a park, where he landed, is named after him at Napier St. In 1839 a punt was built on the Maribyrnong River, it was the connecting link between Melbourne and Geelong, Ballarat, Castlemaine and Bendigo. The Punt Hotel opened three years later and was the first building in the area, during the first decade drovers transporting cattle and sheep provided the only business at the hotel. After 1851, when gold was discovered out west, the pub did a trade with diggers. Part of the old pub still stands and it has been renamed The Pioneer, the Post Office first opened on 12 October 1857. Footscray was declared a municipality in 1859 with a population of 300 and 70 buildings, around the same year the first bridge was built across Saltwater River. Between 1881 and 1891 Footscrays population more than tripled from almost 6,000 to 19,000, Footscray developed into an industrial zone in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the manufacturing industry beginning to decline in the 1960s and 70s. Footscray was home to the Aboriginal Woimurrung and Boonwurrung tribes of the Kulin nation, in 2011, Footscrays 13,193 residents came from 135 countries. In 2006 less than half the population was born in Australia, Footscray has Victorias fourth-highest proportion of residents born in South-East Asia. The average person in Footscray is a youthful 33 years of age, Maribyrnong Council predicts a population boom will more than double Footscray resident numbers from 14,100 to 30,500 by 2031, requiring about 7000 new dwellings. Footscray falls within the electorate of Gellibrand and the state electorate of Footscray
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Melbourne International Film Festival
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The Melbourne International Film Festival is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, MIFF is one of Melbournes four major film festivals, in addition to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Melbourne Underground Film Festival. As of 2013, the festivals Artistic Director is Michelle Carey, Melbourne is a significant city in the history of film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, the worlds first full-length feature film, was filmed in the city. Established in 1952, the Melbourne International Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and has become the most notable event in Australia. MIFF is the largest film festival in both Australia and the hemisphere, and is Australias largest showcase of new Australian cinema. The 2012 festival generated A$8 million for the Victorian economy, as of 2013, the festival is accredited by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Australian Film Institute and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. As of 2013, the festivals CEO is Maria Amato, Carey is the Artistic Director, the 37ºSouth Market is the only international film financing marketplace to take place during a film festival in Australia or New Zealand. As of 2013, the 37ºSouth Market is also the partner of the Londons Production Finance Market for Australia. Since 1962, MIFF has staged a short film competition, as well as feature film award categories. It also presents audience popularity awards for film and documentary. The festivals inaugural award was Best Short Film, but the title was changed to Grand Prix for Best Short Film in 1965, from 1985 onwards, the Grand Prix has been officially presented by the City of Melbourne. The judges for the 2013 MIFF short film awards were Lorin Clarke, Michael Matrenza, Chinese filmmakers withdrew their films from the festival two days before it opened on 24 July 2009. Later, both pro-Chinese and pro-Uyghur activists attempted to disrupt ticketing due to the media coverage, the festival website was hacked soon after the launch of its 2009 program, with information replaced with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans. Victoria Police was placed on alert during the screening of the film, Australias Ambassador to China Geoff Raby was summoned by Chinas Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun to express displeasure about Kadeers attendance at MIFF. In 2000, MIFFs rejection of a film written and directed by Richard Wolstencroft led him to form the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In subsequent years, MUFF has attracted controversy by criticising the content of MIFF, as well as its management, MUFF prioritises and declares that he has a mandate, as a space for exciting and edgy Australian cinema that may not be played at MIFF. Film festival List of film festivals List of short film festivals St Kilda Short Film Festival Cinema of Australia Official website
