Celebrity: Dominick Dunne

Special Preview Season in Adelaide Announced for Feature Documentary

Film Art Media announce today that they will be holding an advance season of the film, Celebrity: Dominick Dunne, in association with the Adelaide Film Festival and the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide. These screenings follow the film's sell-out Premiere at the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and its selection for the upcoming Hamptons International Film Festival and Sheffield International Documentary Festival.


Opening on Sunday 5th October at 7pm with introductions from the filmmakers, Timothy Jolley and Kirsty de Garis, the Mercury will run a mini season (six sessions in total) of the Australian made documentary which reveals the inside scoop on the world's most famous chronicler in the age of celebrity, Dominick Dunne.

The 84 minute feature from Timothy Jolley and Kirsty de Garis, principals of Road Trip Film, features extraordinary access to Dunne's world, including never-before-seen home video footage. For the first time, Dominick tells his own story revealing his journey from unlikely war hero, Hollywood producer and outcast, to special correspondent and defining voice of Vanity Fair magazine. Timothy and Kirsty hail from Adelaide and are delighted to be returning home to present their debut documentary film.


Sue Maslin of Film Art Media said: We are very excited to be teaming up with Road Trip Film and the Adelaide Film Festival and representing this outstanding film. It is entertaining, intelligent and seriously engages with the phenomenon of celebrity, at the bulls-eye of popular culture. Kirsty de Garis is a highly experienced journalist, and together with producer Tim Jolley, she has built a close relationship with Dominick over the past three years which has resulted in them getting below the surface to present an intensely personal film. The film release also marks the launch of our distribution label, Film Art Media reflecting our commitment to doing business differently in the face of a rapidly changing screen industry landscape.

Directors Timothy Jolley and Kirsty de Garis said: This film is an intimate portrait of the charismatic, humorous and engaging man described by New York magazine as America's most famous journalist. His extraordinary life provides a fascinating look at society's obsession with celebrity yet ultimately reveals its corrosive nature.

This season, in partnership with the MRC, launches the Adelaide Film Festival's pilot program to bring Australian films to Adelaide audiences outside the dates of the festival that they might not otherwise be able to access.

The film will be released in selected cinemas nationally in October. Adelaide dates are listed below.

Adelaide Screening Dates

Mercury Cinema 13 Morphett Street Adelaide SA 5000 (08) 8410 0979
Opening Night (inc. Q&A with filmmakers) 7 pm Sunday 5 October
Thursday 9 October - 6 pm
Friday 10 October - 7 pm
Sunday 19 October - 7 pm
Thursday 23 October - 6pm
Friday 24 October - 7pm

About Film Art Media

Film Art Media Pty Ltd is a rights management and distribution company based in Melbourne. Principals, Daryl Dellora and Sue Maslin have a 20 year track record together producing blue chip, award winning film and television programs under their production company banner, Film Art Doco Pty Ltd. Both companies specialise in screen content that consistently demonstrates high levels of access to unique people, places and institutions; high audience appeal and is at the cutting edge of innovation in screen content and form.



Sue and Daryl are Executive Producers of Celebrity: Dominick Dunne and have a slate of feature films, documentaries and digital interactive media in development, production and distribution.