TweetFilm at the Emerging Writers’ Festival – He Died With A Felafel In His Hand

We are very excited to announce our first live screening event, in partnership with Melbourne’s own Emerging Writers’ Festival! If you haven’t been to EWF in previous years, check them out, it’s a fantastic festival that does a lot to support upcoming writers. Our event on their website is here.

So the question came up, what film to choose for such a festival? Something Australian, surely. Something to do with writing. Prefereably something based on a well-known Australian book, maybe with an author who has already embraced the medium of Twitter… of course! Malcolm! Wait, no. He Died With A Felafel In His Hand!

Based on the novel by John Birmingham, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand has become an Aussie classic, brilliantly capturing the absurdity of living in a share house and the ongoing frustrations of trying to be a writer. Starring Noah Taylor and directed by Richard Lowenstein, Felafel will generate some interesting conversations about what it means to be a writer in Australia, as well as which fucking shelf the pineapple chunks belong.

So, for those in Melbourne who would like to attend, entry is FREE but bookings are essential. To secure your tickets, email director@emergingwritersfestival.org.au

If you’re not in Melbourne and still want to take part, it’s business as usual. We’ll still be synchronising with timeanddate.com’s Melbourne page, so if you follow the steps on our handy how-to guide, you should be all set. We’ll be using this hashtag:

#tffelafel

And as usual, here are a few links for you to get started:

Felafel on IMDb

Trailer

John Birmingham on Twitter

TweetFilm No. 3 – Blade Runner

You’ve probably heard of this movie. Yes, it’s the absolute classic, Blade Runner. Specifically, the final cut version, not the theatrical cut, or the director’s cut (which isn’t entirely a director’s cut), or the workprint, or that fan-made edit that cuts out Batty entirely. That one’s just confusing.

One of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, a movie so important to modern cinema that even if you haven’t seen it, you know far more of it than you might realise. This also marks the first time we’ve tried a classic film as opposed to a recent popular one, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the discussion pans out.

At the stroke of 12 noon this Saturday, you will see tweets being lost, like tears in the rain. Especially if they use this hashtag:

#tfbladerunner

Here’s our how-to guide, here’s the page to synchronise your start time to, and here are some links. Hope to see you Saturday!

Original theatrical trailer, which basically covers the entire movie.

Blade Runner on IMDb

Wrap-Up – TweetFilm No. 2, The Social Network

Well, TweetFilm is certainly getting bigger – only our second film and we managed to get trending in Melbourne, which I’m obviously pretty pleased with. If you’d like to read the archive of the full discussion, you can download it here. And remember, read bottom to top.

And now, to the future! Literally, in the case of the next TweetFilm event, which will be happening Saturday May 7, the details of which will be announced tomorrow. Not only that, but we’ve got some very exciting news coming up about the first TweetFilm screening for Melbournians to attend! Stay tuned for more on that.

Thanks as always to everyone that’s been taking part in TweetFilm so far – you guys are all part of one big film-discussing family. And it’s a family that will hopefully keep growing, like one of those cults, but without… y’know, all the cult stuff. As always, if you have any questions or feedback, let me know in the comments or drop me a line at tweetfilm@gmail.com.