This Is Port Adelaide – an Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund film – will open in cinemas nationally from April 22 with Q&A event screenings from April 16 with special guests, 57 Films director/producer Nicole Miller and past Port Adelaide players.
The film, which shares passionate first-hand accounts from players and one-eyed supporters who bleed for the club, will premiere in Melbourne on Friday 16 April, ahead of Port Adelaide’s clash against Carlton at the MCG the following night.
Screenings will follow in Sydney on Thursday 22 April, in Brisbane on Friday 23 April and Perth on Saturday 24 April.
Port Adelaide fans in Adelaide will get to see the film from Wednesday April 21 at the Palace Nova Eastend and Wallis Cinema at Mitcham.
Full screening times and ticketing information can be found below.
This Is Port Adelaide takes viewers across the 150-year journey of Australia’s most successful football club and then goes behind the scenes in a tumultuous 2020 season as the club dealt with the impact of a global pandemic in its 150th anniversary season.
Daniel Norton, Port Adelaide Football Club GM – Media and executive producer of This Is Port Adelaide says it’s very exciting to showcase the story of this great club to a national audience.
“We are very grateful to have the opportunity to tell the Port Adelaide Football Club story to a national audience,” Mr Norton said.
“Port Adelaide is Australia’s most successful league football club. It is a remarkable story of highs and lows, underpinned by a shared football club and a surrounding community mantra of never, ever giving up.
“It is a story of unparalleled success that needed to be celebrated and captured in a feature length film. It’s one of the great stories in Australian sport, the community football club which grew out of humble beginnings and became the only non-Victorian club to be elevated into the AFL.
“As we know the success of the club is not just because of its on-field deeds. We have an extraordinary community of support that has driven our great club forward since its inception as a social club back in 1870.
“And it’s the club’s loyal supporters and volunteers who are the true heroes of this film.
“This film is a celebration of a club, a community and an irresistible united force like you’ve never seen before.”
Wallis Cinemas and Palace Nova Eastend in South Australia will screen the film from April 22 and there will be event screenings in other states at Palace Cinemas.
Q&A SCREENINGS:
PALACE PENTRIDGE CINEMAS, MELBOURNE
7pm, Friday April 16
Q&A to follow the film with Director/Producer Nicole Miller & Jackson Trengove, former Port Adelaide Football Club player and winner of the Club’s John Cahill Medal in 2011.
PALACE NOVA EASTEND, ADELAIDE
6.30pm, Wednesday April 21
Introduction to the film by Director/Producer Nicole Miller & George Fiacchi, a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League. During his career he won seven premierships for the club. He was named best on ground for the 1990 SANFL Grand Final.
WALLIS MITCHAM CINEMA, ADELAIDE
7pm, Wednesday April 21
Q&A to follow the film with Director/Producer Nicole Miller & George Fiacchi.
PALACE NORTON ST CINEMAS, SYDNEY
7pm, Thursday April 22
Sydney – Palace Norton St
Q&A with Director/Producer Nicole Miller with Chairman of the Port Adelaide Football Club, David Koch.
PALACE BARRACKS CINEMAS, BRISBANE
7pm, Friday April 23
Q&A with Director/Producer Nicole Miller with Matthew Primus, former captain and coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
PALACE RAINE SQUARE, PERTH
7pm, Saturday April 24
Q&A with Director/Producer Nicole Miller with Dom Cassisi, former premiership player for the Port Adelaide Football Club.
