Life During Wartime Premiere

Sydney Film Festival 2010

Festival Director Clare Stewart, producer Christine K. Walker,

actress Shirley Henderson,

Jury President Jan Chapman and Jury member Yonfan.

Photographer Don Arnold (c) 2010

Some of Shirley Henderson's movies

• Harry Potter series - Moaning Myrtle
• Bridget Jones 1 & 2 - Jude
• Marple - Murder Is Easy - Honoria Wanflete
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Edythe DuBarry
• Doctor Who - Ursula Blake
• Hamish Macbeth - Isabel Sutherland
• Salt On Our Skin (Desire)- Mary

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Hey Val, Shirley looks a lot like Kathryn Erbe

and both are wonderful actresses.

2 Degrees of Separation -

Shirley was in Salt on Our Skin with Vincent D'Onofrio

Kathryn Erbe was in Law & Order: Criminal Intent with VDO

traveled down to Sydney today to have morning tea

at Pancakes on the Rocks, in The Rocks district

with son, daughter and son-in-law.

It was Nicholas' birthday

Here he is with his new camera. Very swish.

We walked along the water's edge at Circular Quay

and I couldn't resist taking this photo

of the Sydney Opera House.

Later after Nicholas had left to meet up with friends,

we stopped by for coffee and croissant at Baroque's.

Across the road was The Rocks' Farmer's Market

in George Street.

Plenty of tourists around.

Before I left to go home I checked out the

Dendy Opera Quay's cinema

where tomorrow I will return to attend to see

the film "The Last Train Home".

The Sydney Film Festival starts today.

I'm looking forward to going to see 3 films on Sunday

including The New Tenants short.

The other film 'Just Like Us'

with comedian Ahmed Ahmed ,

made his debut on Aussie TV with his appearance on

TV's Hey! Hey! Its Saturday

(shown on Wednesday nights .lol)

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and just for something different -

The Kate Ceberano, John Farnham, Jon Stevens

and cast of Jesus Christ Superstar

perform 'Everything's Alright'

on 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' 1992

I have a great weekend planned for the weekend

5th-6th June.

First, I will be in Sydney on Saturday 5th June to attend my son, Nicholas, birthday get-together at The Rocks. I will be only staying for the morning tea session as he and his friends plan to make it an all-dayer, as they all work different shifts, it makes it easier to organise.

I love The Rocks area its a great tourist spot

and there is always something happening there.

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Sydney Film Festival 2010

I will be attending 3 films

at the Sydney Film Festival.

The first film, 'The Last Train Home'

will be shown at the Dendy Opera Quays cinema

(The Opera Quays cinema is situated bottom right of picture.)

I have passed by the cinema countless times on my way

to the Sydney Opera House so when I was looking at the

program of films to see I thought what a great time to go.

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My next 2 films will be shown at the

Event Cinema 9 in George Street.

The first session will be The New Tenants,

Winner of Best Live Action Short at the 2010 Academy Awards®,

to be followed by the documentary 'Just Like Us'.

Director, Ahmed Ahmed sets out to break down barriers

with comedy,

by taking a group of US stand-up comics

(from a variety of backgrounds) on a tour of the Middle East.