What's On at ACMI: Wednesday 14 to Tuesday 20 September 2016

ACMI's weekly what's on guide provides a small sample of events coming up. For session times and more information on these and all ACMI happenings across our cinemas, galleries, education spaces and collection archives visit acmi.net.au

ACMI's Spring school holiday program begins
Featuring the very first Disneynature Festival
Saturday 17 September to Sunday 2 October
acmi.net.au/school-holidays
ACMI is a hub of activity for kids and families during the Spring school holidays. Five of Disney's greatest family documentaries screen exclusively at ACMI in the very first Disneynature Festival, showing nature in all its glory and featuring a who's who of Hollywood talent, including Meryl Streep, John C. Reilly, Tim Allen, Samuel L. Jackson and Tina Fey. Creative workshops include the free Disneynature Drop In until 30 September, which teaches kids aged 5 to 10 years about the natural world, plus a variety of paid workshops that teach useful moving image skills including coding, Scratch programming, movie-making, Minecraft™, YouTube and gaming.
Tickets: Disneynature festival $7, FREE workshops

Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie
Thursday 8 to Wednesday 21 September
acmi.net.au/louis-theroux
Widely lauded as a MIFF 2016 program highlight, one of the year's most acclaimed documentaries Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie sees Theroux make his cinematic debut with director John Dower and two-time Academy Award-winning producer, Simon Chinn (Searching for Sugar Man, Man on Wire). Together they venture inside the famously mysterious Church of Scientology following a long fascination with the famed -Hollywood' religion. Continuing on from his many dealings with eccentric human behaviour, the incomparable British broadcaster Louis Theroux won't take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church of Scientology's Los Angeles headquarters is denied.
Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13. Members $10. No free tickets.

Entries close for Screen It, ACMI's national student film competition
Entries close Monday 19 September (5pm AEST)
acmi.net.au/screen-it
Entries close Monday 19 September for young creatives to enter original and inventive films, animations and videogames in Australia's biggest student film competition, Screen It. Screen It is ACMI's free, annual film competition open to all Australian primary and secondary school students. This year's theme – Mystery – is fuelling ideas and classroom discussions around the country. The competition is a focused, curriculum-based learning program, with the added bonus of a juicy prize pack and splendid awards gala for students to celebrate their achievements. Finalists will be announced Monday 17 October 2016.
Entry is FREE. Entries close Monday 19 September (5pm AEST)

 INTERMIX Kinect Artist Workshop for young people
Friday 17 September, 11am - 4pm
acmi.net.au/intermix
Explore the artistic possibilities of the Microsoft Kinect depth sensors and other camera technology like it during this one day workshop run by Media Lab Melbourne. During the workshop participants learn about the technical foundations of these cameras, examine a number of artistic projects that have successfully used the Microsoft Kinect, and then step through a range of techniques used in installations, dance and theatre. There will also be some hands-on experience with the Kinect and the Z Vector software to produce short, audio-responsive artworks which combine images and depth data from the Kinect. Intermix is ACMI's program for young people 15 to 25.
INTERMIX is proudly supported by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation.
Tickets: FREE.

The Wolf of Wall Street: final Scorsese Friday Night Cinema session
Friday 16 September, 7pm
acmi.net.au/scorsese-events
Before ACMI's SCORSESE exhibition closes on Sunday 18 September, audiences can catch The Wolf of Wall Street at the final Scorsese Friday Night Cinema session on 16 September, then drop into the SCORSESE exhibition while it's open for extended hours on the final late night Friday. The film follows Jordan Belfort (Leonardo Di Caprio) who loses his job on Black Monday in October 1987 after a stint on Wall Street during the -greed is good' decade. Seduced by the 'profit at all costs' ethos peddled by former employer Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey), Belfort sets up a brokerage firm specialising in penny stocks and gathers a team of acolytes who are aggressively committed to his high stakes methods.
Tickets: Full $17, Concession $13, Members $10

Co-presented with the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA)
Melbourne Cinematheque: Pearls of the Deep + Death Is Called Engelchen
Wednesday 14 September, 7pm
acmi.net.au/cinematheque
Melbourne Cinematheque is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run film society that holds back-to-back screenings at ACMI every Wednesday night for most of the year. On Wednesday 14 September, Melbourne Cinematheque is co-presented by the 2016 Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA), which also takes place at ACMI from Wednesday 14 to Friday 23 September. On 14 September, Melbourne Cinematheque audiences can see Pearls of the Deep and Death Is Called Engelchen. Pearls of the Deep is one of the great anthology films of the Czech New Wave, and sees five leading lights of the genre each adapt a story from the debut publication of Bohumil Hrabal, the most revered Czech writer of his generation. In Death Is Called Engelchen a paralysed, despondent young man (Jan Kačer) lies in a hospital bed, haunted by flashbacks of his time as an idealistic guerrilla fighter battling occupying Nazi forces in Moravia.
Tickets: Membership from $24

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