What's On at ACMI: Wednesday 2 November to Tuesday 8 November 2016

Presented by ACMI, sponsored by HTC and NVIDIA, and proudly part of Melbourne International Games Week
Special one-day event Game Changer: ACMI VR Festival is on at ACMI during Melbourne International Games Week
Thursday 3 November, 12pm – 8pm
acmi.net.au/vr-festival
Immerse yourself in the cutting edge tech of Virtual Reality and explore exotic worlds developed by some of the best minds in the business, all made possible by the HTC Vive. Featuring the Vive headset, the world's first truly immersive VR equipment with hand-tracking and room-scaling sensors allowing you to move freely through 3D environments. 
Tickets: FREE

ACMI in partnership with Sandpit, Google's Creative Lab and Grumpy Sailor
Special VR exhibition Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid continues to invite audiences to step inside a ghost to experience the work
Until Sunday 13 November
acmi.net.au/vr-commissions
Opening in time for Halloween and as part of Melbourne International Games Week is Sandpit's Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid, a VR experience that invites audiences to don a ghost costume in order to step into the lives of two characters, Maude and Steve, and into the kitchen where they fell in love and grew old together over 50 years.
Tickets: FREE

Boy and the WorldAcademy Award-nominated film Boy and the World returns for a full kids' flicks season at ACMI UNCLASSIFIED for all ages suitable for children 4+
Saturday 5 to Sunday 27 November
acmi.net.au/kids-flicks
Following a successful once-off ACMI screening in early 2016, Academy Award-nomiated film Boy and the World returns to ACMI Cinemas for a full kids' flicks season. In addition to its 2016 Academy Award-nomination for Best Animated Film, the film is has won over 40 international prizes. 
Tickets: Full $7, Member $5.

ACMI Cinemas show An (Sweet Bean) as part of the ongoing Seniors Cinema program of matinee screenings M
Saturday 5 to Monday 14 November
acmi.net.au/seniors-cinema
ACMI Cinemas screen An (Sweet Bean) in November as part of the ongoing Seniors' Cinema program. Directed by Naomi Kawase, An (Sweet Bean) is an adaptation of a novel by Durian Sukegawa where central character Sentaro (Nagase Masatoshiruns) is the proprietor of a bakery that serves dorayakis – delicate pastries filled with delicious sweet red bean paste (an). 

Tickets: Seniors $7, Member $6, Non-Seniors $13

ACMI Cinemas screen Roman Polanski retrospective ROMAN: 10 x Polanski
Saturday 5 to Sunday 20 November
acmi.net.au/roman-10-x-polanski
Lauded by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as 'one of the great modern masters of the cinema" Roman Polanski has over the course of five decades refined a formal film language and expressed a mordantly ironic worldview in genre-defining films that are provocative, compelling and inventive. 
Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13, Member $10

Australian comedy legend Tim Ferguson delivers a two-day Comedy Writing Masterclass
Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 November
www.acmi.net.au/comedy-writing-masterclass/
One of Australia's most successful international comedians, Tim Ferguson, reveals the secrets of comedy writing for stage and screen in this two-day writing masterclass, covering everything from stand-up and sketch to movies, web and plays.
Tickets: Full $350, Concession $315, Member 300

For session times and more information on these and all other events on at ACMI visit acmi.net.au