Cannes, Sundance, Toronto – Buninyong? This year’s 21st Buninyong Film Festival will run over May 3 and 4 with an exciting line-up of films, activites and events. The 2013 festival will also mark the final time audiences will hear the whirring of the 35mm film projector, with the festival going digital in 2014. Organisers say the the 1926 silent film The General, starring Buster Keaton, will launch proceedings on screen, but not before Federation of Victorian Film Society’s Jon Turner speaks on the importance of regional film festivals. Supper will follow the film, and then the animated film Frankenweenie, by Tim Burton, will screen to round out opening night. On the Saturday, the film line-up will include Rebelle, Samsara and Chinese Takeaway. The final afternoon will be followed by an historic walk around Buninyong from 4pm to 6pm. That night guests will be treated to a sumptuous African dinner in the Buninyong Town Hall which, for the fourth year, will be prepared by members of Ballarat’s African community. During dinner, local musicians Graeme Vendy and Barrie Currie will take to the stage to perform tunes from various films. Some of the songs will form part of the festival’s Dinner Quiz. The festival will end with the award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. It tells the true story of Sixto Rodriguez, the greatest folk/rock icon from Detroit who never was. It won the 2013 Academy award and BAFTA award for best documentary. For more information, visit buninyong.vic.au/filmfestival/