Just got back from the Cockatoo Island Film Fest where I saw the film 360. This was a much needed break from beer during Sydney Craft Beer Week to give my palate a rest. (Plus I'm sure some of you are probably thinking 'less beer, more kangaroos please!')
Cockatoo Island is one of the Sydney Harbor Islands, a 10 minute ferry ride from downtown which started as a penal establishment (shocking, I know) to solve overcrowding in the other prisons. The prisoners built the barracks, guard towers, and dock. After relocating the prisoners, Cockatoo Island became the hub for shipbuilding. It is a very small island with big warehouses and old machinery, very cool. I felt like I was on the set of some movie.
Pulling up to Cockatoo Island on the Ferry:
View of the warehouses - they set up movie theaters inside the warehouses for the film festival. Outside were some food and beer stands...and literally a million seagulls
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Inside of one of the warehouses
They tunneled through the rockface to get from one side to the other
View from atop the prison barracks of Sydney Harbor (you can see the bridge over on the left)
The prison yard. No sign of Andy or Red
As for the film, I'll spare you the details, but it was like a boring version of Crash and you had to sit in crappy plastic deck chairs for 2 and a half hours.
The island itself is heaps (wicked) awesome
Countdown til Mote's comes:10!
But shhhhhh! Don't wake her!
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