ArtScreen celebrates the arts with a free film series on Friday evenings in the City of Fairfax

Doors open at 7 p.m. • Film starts at 7:30 p.m.

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(Please note: this program had originally been scheduled for January.)

Strictly Ballroom

1992 – PG

Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!" This film stars Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, and Bill Hunter and was directed by Baz Luhrmann

Awards: 1992 – Won AFI Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Editing, Best Achievement in Production Design, Best Actor in Supporting Role (Barry Otto), Best Actress in Supporting Role (Pat Thomson), Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay; 1992 – Won Cannes Film Festival: Award Of The Youth for Foreign Film; 1993 – Won BAFTA Film Award for Best Costume Design, Best Original Film Score, Best Production Design; 1993 – Won London Critics Circle Film Awards: ALFS Award for Newcomer of the Year (Baz Luhrmann).

“As emotionally rich as it is eye-catching, Strictly Ballroom uses its infectious energy as the fuel for a modern dance classic with all the right moves.”- Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus (91%)