The 2023 Castlemaine Documentary Festival is fast approaching, scheduled for June 16 – 18.
The full 2023 program will be launched tomorrow at 7.30pm at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and celebrated with a screening of the gorgeous Australian film, Because We Have Each Other.
This film by award-winning director Sari Braithwaite, who will be in attendance at the screening, is about neurodiversity and family. It is a tender and touching portrait that was filmed over five years.
“This year will be the ninth year of Castlemaine Documentary Festival and we have a program that is bigger and better than ever before,” production manager Dunnielle Mina said.
“In addition to the eight feature documentaries that will screen at the Theatre Royal we have a return of LOCALS for opening night and an augmented reality showcase by Sensilab that involves a presentation on the origin of this emergent technology and where it is headed in the realm of storytelling, plus a downloadable extended reality app that takes festival goers on a walking tour of Castlemaine.
“We also have live music and a party on the Saturday night and a Yurt Micro-cinema with family friendly programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings moving into youth focused content in the afternoons and evenings.”
Mina said festival organisers wanted to encourage readers to go along to the launch to see the 2023 festival trailer, pick up a copy of the printed program, hear some words about the upcoming festival and attend the screening of Because We Have Each Other with live Q+A with the filmmaker, Sari Braithewaite – Wednesday, April 26, at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine.
The CDoc website is also now live at cdocff.com.au
