Magic Beach
Magic Beach
Magic Beach
Magic Beach

Magic Beach

Unclassified all ages
Program Strand/s: Australian Films Family Films

Ten animators bring Alison Lester’s beloved children’s book to the screen, crafting a magical mixture of live action and animation that is destined to become a family favourite.

As children hear the enchanting words of Lester’s illustrated classic Magic Beach, they slip into spellbinding worlds of dream and whimsy. Now translated into animated form – covering traditional 2D, claymation, stop-motion and more – it can captivate a whole new generation of youngsters while evoking wonder in the already-familiar. From a host of undersea adventures, tall tales of salty smugglers and escalating sandcastle wars, to sibling-stealing seaweed monsters, psychedelic coral forests and a dog’s dream of shoals of ‘sausage fish’, everyone will find their own fantastical adventure within.

First published in 1990, Lester’s rhyming shrine to imaginative play has found its way into the hearts of countless Australians, from wide-eyed kids to the parents who’ve read it at bedtime more times than they can remember. To adapt it for the screen, Robert Connolly (Paper Planes, MIFF 2014; Balibo, MIFF 2009) enlisted 10 of Australia’s most talented animators – Susan Danta, Pierce Davison, Jake Duczynski, Emma Kelly, Simon Rippingale, Marieka Walsh, Eddie White, Lee Whitmore, Kathy Sarpi and Oscar nominee Anthony Lucas – to render a host of incredible, wildly diverse environments. Delivering an incandescent take on a revered Aussie work, the MIFF Premiere Fund–supported Magic Beach is a film of widescreen delight.


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Animators Emma Kelly and Kathy Sarpi will also appear at Very Animated: Life in Clay, Ink & CGI on Tuesday 23 August.

Tickets

24 Aug 10:00am Theatre Royal Castlemaine
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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24 Aug 10:45am Hoyts Melbourne Central Cinema 3
Access: Wheelchair Accessible Open Captioned
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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24 Aug 12:30pm Village Cinemas Geelong
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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24 Aug 12:30pm Village Cinemas Shepparton
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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24 Aug 1:00pm Star Cinema Bendigo
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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24 Aug 2:00pm Paramount Cinemas Echuca
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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25 Aug 12:00pm Village Cinemas Morwell
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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25 Aug 1:00pm The Astor Theatre
Access: Audio Description Wheelchair Accessible
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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25 Aug 1:00pm Peninsula Cinemas Rosebud
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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25 Aug 1:00pm The Pivotonian Cinema Geelong
Access: Assistive listening Wheelchair Accessible
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Magic Beach (74 m)
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