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Corinne Grant Waleed Aly Comedian Writer/Lecturer

Corinne Grant is a comedian, Waleed Aly is a lecturer in writer and performer best politics at Monash University, known for her work on working primarily within the The opening night film at Sundance, Brett Morgen's (The Kid The Glasshouse and Rove Global Terrorism Research Stays in the Picture) Chicago 10 is an adrenalin rush of creative Live. She was a member of Centre. Previously, he was documentary. Mixing bold animation and compelling archival Actors For Refugees and a board member of the footage, it captures the escalating tensions and full-scale has lent her skills as an actor, Islamic Council of Victoria. pandemonium that overtook the 1968 Chicago Democratic comedian and MC to various He is frequently sought for Convention. human rights organisations comment by media outlets and groups over a number across Australia and has An all-star cast, including performances by Nick Nolte, Mark of years. She has been a contributed regularly to The Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Geoffrey Wright and Hank Azaria, Chicago proud member of the Media, Australian, The Australian CHICAGO TEN 10 brings to life the counter-culture, wise-guy icons of the Chicago Entertainment and Arts Financial Review and The Age. Australian Premiere 7, the leaders of the radicalised hippies (aka ‘Yippies’) who clashed Alliance since 1996. His first book, People Like Us, 6.00pm for light refreshments. with Chicago police over the Vietnam War. The resulting court case was published in 2007. Screening 6.30pm Thurs 13 Nov 2008, was pure theatre on a national scale, as the defendants undermined Capitol Theatre the proceedings, and the Judge undermined the defendant's basic Anthony Kelly rights and dignity; as Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg spoke Activist/Nonviolence Trainer With Discussion Forum featuring Corinne their piece, and as the proceedings slipped into farce. Grant, Waleed Aly and Anthony Kelly Anthony Kelly has been an activist and nonviolence trainer Pieced together from actual courtroom transcripts, and with a for almost 20 years within Australian social justice and peace WRITER/DIRECTOR Brett Morgen dynamic style of motion capture animation that recounts both movements. He organised human rights observer teams for PRODUCERS Brett Morgen & Graydon Carter Richard Linklater's Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, Chicago 10 is the large protests against the World Economic Forum in 2000 ORIGIN USA, 2007 a powerful reminder of the need for protest to be heard by those in and the G20 Leaders Meeting in 2007. Anthony works for Peace LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 110mins power, and the power of film to creatively deploy politics. Brigades International (PBI), which provides nonviolent protective GENRE Animated Documentary accompaniment to threatened activists around the world and is AWARDS/SELECTIONS "Morgen plunges viewers completely into the anarchic, currently a trainer with the PBI’s Indonesia Project. Chicago International Film Festival 2007 - ‘Silver exhilarating, finally ambiguous world of 1968 America" Hugo’ for Best Documentary; Sundance Film Festival ––Washington­­ Post 2007 - Opening Night selection "An electrifying picture" –– Chicago Reader

8 FILM FILM 9 TRADE Tim Costello CHILDREN THAT NEVER BLING: A Planet Rock With Discussion Forum featuring World Vision Australia EXISTED Australian Premiere Tim Costello and Rod Hopping Screening before Bling: A Planet Rock Tim Costello is recognised as one of WRITER/DIRECTOR Raquel Cepeda DIRECTOR Marco Kreuzpaintner Australia’s leading voices on social WRITER/ DIRECTOR David Valero Simón PRODUCERS Raquel Cepeda, Filippo Bozotti & WRITERS Jose Rivera & Peter Landesman justice issues, having spearheaded PRODUCERS Xose Manuel & Zapata Pérez Rebecca Chaiklin PRODUCERS Roland Emmerich & Rosilyn Heller public debates on gambling, urban ORIGIN Spain, 2007 ORIGIN USA, 2007 ORIGIN Germany/USA, 2007 poverty, homelessness, reconciliation LANGUAGE/ LENGTH Arabic with English subtitles, LANGUAGE/LENGTH English/Krio with English LANGUAGE/LENGTH English/Spanish with English and substance abuse. He has been 19 mins subtitles, 87 mins subtitles, 120 mins Chief Executive of World Vision GENRE Narrative Thriller GENRE Documentary GENRE Narrative Australia since 2004 and has played AWARDS/ SELECTIONS AWARDS/SELECTIONS New York African Film AWARDS/SELECTIONS German Film Awards a prominent role in the Make Interfilm Berlin 2007– Official Selection Festival 2007 - Official Selection in Gold 2008 - Best Sound; Hessian Film Awards Poverty History campaign. In April 2007 - Cinema for Peace; Munich Film Festival 2007- 2008, he chaired the Strengthening Somewhere in an African war zone, two orphan Bernhard Wicki Film Award & CineMerit Award Communities, Supporting Families Bling ––the hip hop rock that pervades and Social Inclusion Committee of brothers struggle for survival in a barren land America’s urban music videos and catwalks–– the Australian Government’s 2020 where childhood and innocence have long comes under the microscope in this affecting Adriana is kidnapped by international sex Summit in Canberra. since disappeared. documentary. traffickers and forced into a world of corruption and slavery, where her only hope for survival lies Visually stunning. A chilling thriller. Some of the world’s biggest rappers and R&B with her brother Jorge. artists take a life-changing journey into the heart of Africa to learn first-hand about the The American debut of Marco Kreuzpaintner, blood diamond trade and the true cost of one of Germany’s leading young directors, bling. Their tour guide, Ishmael Beah, a one- Trade is based on a screenplay by Academy time child soldier in Sierra Leone and now a Award nominee Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle New York advocate and author (A Long Way Diaries). Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier). Inspired by Peter Landesman’s chilling New Featuring hip hop luminaries, Raekwon and York Times Magazine story on the US sex trade, Kanye West, Bling shocks, entertains and Trade is a devastating exposé of one of the challenges as we watch disparate worlds world’s most heinous crimes. collide and a global economy boil down to its Starring Oscar-winner Kevin Kline (A Fish Called devastating human impact. Wanda, Definitely Maybe) and a host of Mexico’s finest stars and emerging talents, Trade is a thrilling story of courage not to be missed. Rod Hopping Heritage HM Film Distribution

Rod Hopping and his wife Jo Presented by established Heritage HM Film Distribution in 2004. The company was born out of a love for movies and a belief that the power of a great story can potentially instigate change in our world. Heritage HM focuses on films that inspire life and encourage Screening 6.30pm Fri 14 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas the human spirit. –– Movies Change Screening 9.30pm Fri 14 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas People –– People Change The World. 10 FILM FILM 11 Dr.. Simon Bradshaw Coordinator, Australian Tibet Council

Dr.. Simon Bradshaw is the Campaign Coordinator for the Australia Tibet Council. He has previously worked THE UNWINKING GAZE on environment and development I DON’T FEEL LIKE BEHIND FORGOTTEN Australian Premiere projects in Australia, India and on DANCING EYES With Discussion Forum featuring his home island of Guernsey. In 2007 Screening before Behind Forgotten Eyes Australian Premiere Dr.. Simon Bradshaw, Anna Saulwick & he completed a four-year research WRITERS/DIRECTORS Evi Goldbrunner & With Discussion Forum featuring Senator Sarah Hanson-Young project on the traditional relationship between the land and people of Joachim Dollhopf Claire Harris, Elizabeth King & PRODUCER Holger Lochau WRITER/DIRECTOR Joshua Dugdale Tibet. Simon now campaigns full-time Tim McCormack PRODUCERS Joshua Dugdale, Jane Bartlett & for the human rights and democratic ORIGIN Germany, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins Jonathan Jenkins freedoms of the Tibetan people. WRITER/DIRECTOR Anthony Gilmore GENRE Narrative Drama ORIGIN UK, 2006 PRODUCERS Alex Ferrari & Anthony Gilmore AWARDS/SELECTIONS LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 79 mins ORIGIN Korea, 2007 Cinema for Peace Talent Award 2008 – GENRE Documentary LANGUAGE/LENGTH Korean/Japanese with Best Screenplay; GoEast Festival in Wiesbaden, AWARDS/SELECTIONS One World Festival Anna Saulwick English subtitles, English, 76 mins Germany 2008 - Best Short Fiction Film 2008 – Official Selection; London International GetUp! Action for Australia GENRE Documentary Documentary Festival 2008 – Official Selection Set somewhere in a war zone, three soldiers AWARDS/SELECTIONS Hamptons International Anna Saulwick is the Justice, Rights The Unwinking Gaze is an intimate and drink and dance at a night club. They harass Film Festival 2007– Best Film in Conflict and and Democracy Campaigner at captivating portrait of the Dalai Lama’s lifelong a woman who does not want to dance with Resolution; Melbourne Independent Film Festival GetUp. She is a trained lawyer with a work for Tibet. Filmed over three years with them, only to discover the reason why. (Canada) 2007 – Best Documentary background in human rights, social extraordinary access to the Tibetan leader, justice and public law. Anna’s work Dugdale reveals the Dalai Lama’s daily struggle During World War II, more than 200,000 with GetUp has ranged across issues as he tries to lead his people to a peaceful Korean women were forced into sexual slavery as diverse as human rights in Tibet, resolution with China. by the Japanese Imperial Army. Now they are paid parental leave and reform of the demanding to be heard. immigration detention centre. With exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the Dalai Lama, and special interviews with Narrated by Yunjin Kim of Lost, this beautifully George W. Bush and Alanis Morrisette, The crafted film investigates the enduring legacy Unwinking Gaze is an intriguing insight into of one of the 20th century's most horrific and one of the most inspirational political and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young ignored chapters. More than 60 years after the spiritual leaders of our time. Australian Greens fact and against the Japanese government’s continuing failure to properly acknowledge “It could force China into a more civil, Sarah Hanson-Young successfully ran the atrocities, a handful of survivors ––now humanitarian stance toward Tibet. True for the Senate in the 2007 federal grandmothers and brave elders ––are still believers in the power of cinema should keep election, taking her seat as South fighting for recognition and compensation. It an eye on this one. How wonderful to think Australia’s first ever Greens Senator has taken half a century for these women to that a mere movie could once again help make on July 1, 2008. Sarah is the youngest find the courage to tell their stories, and now a difference.”–– Paul Tatara (The Guardian) person ever elected to the Senate, time is running out. and the youngest woman elected “This will probably be the most influential and in the Federal Parliament’s history. “This is an important film... a masterpiece... inspiring film you will see all year”. Prior to entering Parliament, Senator Gilmore shows how filmmakers can serve a –– Laura Taylor, Real.com Hanson-Young worked in the fields wonderful purpose to give a voice to those of human rights and community silenced long ago.” –– Felix Vasquez Jr.., activism, including a four-year stint Cinema Crazed as SA/NT Campaign Manager for Amnesty International Presented by

Screening 12.30pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas Screening 3.00pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 12 FILM FILM 13 THE BELOVED ONES ANGELS IN THE DUST THE NOTHING MEN Screening before Angels in the Dust Australian Premiere Melbourne Premiere With Discussion Forum featuring guest Martin Dingle-Wall, WRITER/DIRECTOR Samantha Moore WRITER/DIRECTOR Louise Hogarth Actor, Writer and Artist PRODUCER Joshka Wessels PRODUCERS James Egan & Louise Hogarth Martin Dingle-Wall ORIGIN UK, 2008 ORIGIN South Africa, 2007 WRITER/DIRECTOR Mark Fitzpatrick Martin Dingle-Wall is an actor, writer and LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 6mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 95mins PRODUCERS Andrew Windsor & Martin Dingle Wall artist. In 2001, Martin became a household GENRE Animated Documentary GENRE Animated Documentary ORIGIN Australia, 2008 name as Flynn Saunders in Home & Away AWARDS/SELECTIONS Animafest 2008 – Special AWARDS/SELECTIONS Amnesty International LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 90mins and was nominated as ‘Best New Talent’ Mention by Grand Jury; Cannes International Film Film Festival 2008 – Audience Award; Full Frame GENRE Narrative Thriller at the Logies. In 2007, Martin established Festival 2007 – Screened at Short Film Corner Documentary Film Festival 2007 – Emerging AWARDS/SELECTIONS Alchemy Film Productions with Mark Pictures/Full Frame Audience Award Dungog Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection Fitzpatrick with the aim of creating tales of The Beloved Ones weaves the stories of two universal relevance. African women living with the repercussions A story about the transformative power of Set in the current climate of economic of HIV/AIDS. While Maureen becomes the compassion and the difference that one insecurity and workplace upheaval, this head of the family at the tender age of 16 after woman can make. acclaimed Australian drama charts the story of losing both her parents to AIDS; Anna must six hardened factory workers who struggle to prepare her five children for life without her. In the rubble of a nation plagued by HIV/AIDS stay sane as they attend work each day waiting Poignant and powerful, The Beloved Ones and apartheid’s legacy of violence and distrust, for their redundancy payouts. Determined charts the will to be remembered. Marion Cloete courageously walked away to avoid paying out large redundancies to its from a life of privilege in Johannesburg to set long-term employees, the company sends in up an orphanage for the most down-trodden undercover employees to catch the workers and tragic of South Africa. A university-trained out drinking, gambling or leaving the premises therapist, Cloete and her village provides in order to rob them of their entitlements. food, shelter, education and new hope for more than 550 children orphaned by AIDS. When the politely spoken and mysterious Simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting, outsider, David (David Field), joins the Angels in the Dust is a truly inspirational film. workplace, panic runs through the ranks. Anxious that they will be exposed by the head- “It thoughtfully illuminates a seemingly office ‘spy’, top dog Jack (Colin Friels) and his unsolvable problem while proving that one followers descend into a compelling world of person really can make a difference.” antagonism and brutality. When they discover –– Seattle Times that David is hiding a much darker secret the seeds are planted for an explosive finale that “Angels In the Dust is an important, seals the fate of the The Nothing Men. enormously emotional film that will hopefully have a far-reaching and valuable impact on the Revealing the corrosive impact of fear and plight of Sub-Saharan AIDS.” –– Reel.com anxiety, The Nothing Men is a film that tests the limits of tolerance, respect and human dignity. “...Nothing short of wondrous” –– NY Magazine

Screening 6.00pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas Screening 9.00pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 14 FILM FILM 15

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DONTåHAVEåTOåCHOOSE Lakshmi and Me challenges a new generation of feminists to ask how those women who have 0HONEååååORåVISITå been invited to sit at the table can allow other women to remain seated on the floor” WWWCARITASORGAUåANDåYOUåCANå –– Full Frame Documentary Film Festival HELPå7ILLIAM å-YSINT 3ANåANDå4HIRASå COMMUNITIESåANDåTHOUSANDSåLIKEåTHEM Screening 12.30pm Sun 16 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 16 FILM With your help, WELL never have to chooseFILM 17 YOLNGU GUYA BACK SEAT INTERVENTION DJAMAMIRR World Premiere SCREEN WRITER/DIRECTOR Pauline Whyman WRITER/DIRECTOR Frank PRODUCER Kath Shelper WRITER/DIRECTOR Vincent Lamberti DREAMING Djirrimbilpilwuy ORIGIN Australia 2007 PRODUCER Tangentyere Council PRODUCER Penny Smallacombe LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins ORIGIN Australia, 2008 ORIGIN Australia, 2008 GENRE Narrative, Drama LANGUAGE/LENGTH English/ Indigenous LANGUAGE/LENGTH English and AWARDS/SELECTIONS Message Indigenous languages with English Yolngu Matha with English subtitles Sticks Festival 2007 – Official Selection subtitles, 52 mins Stories 6 mins Inspired by Pauline Whyman’s own GENRE Documentary GENRE Documentary experience, Back Seat tells the story Following the 2007 release of the AWARDS/SELECTIONS Message Sticks Session of a young Aboriginal girl Janine Little Children Are Sacred report Festival 2008 – Official Selection who goes with her foster parents to –– which exposed a worrying 3.00pm Sun 16th Nov 2008, meet her biological family for the prevalence of child abuse in Kino Cinemas Since uploading the ‘Chooky first time. From the back seat of her indigenous communities - the Dancers’ performance of Zorba the foster parent’s car, Janine watches Howard government responded Greek–– Yolngu style, to YouTube, it as her blood family come into view With Discussion Forum by passing emergency legislation has become an overnight sensation. and then recedes into the distance. known as ‘The Intervention’. This This is the story behind the dance. featuring Vincent Lamberti & new policy generated public Vincent Lamberti Chloe Hooper outcry and upturned the lives of Director (Intervention) the Northern Territory’s indigenous population. Vincent Lamberti is a filmmaker and composer. Originally from Based on 40 interviews from a Melbourne, he grew up bi-culturally, cross section of the aboriginal his home life characterised by his community living in and around Southern Italian roots while learning DAYS LIKE THESE MIXED BAG NANA Alice Springs, Intervention to be an 'Australian' at school. discusses town camps, quarantine Since 2005, Vincent has been WRITER/DIRECTOR Martin Leroy WRITER/DIRECTOR Imogen Thomas WRITER/DIRECTOR Warwick Thornton laws, ration cards, alcoholism and living in Alice Springs, and though Adams PRODUCER Kath Shelper PRODUCER Kath Shelper the shame and disempowerment his vocation takes him around PRODUCER Kath Shelper ORIGIN Australia, 2008 ORIGIN Australia, 2007 that has ensued from the Australia, he focuses primarily on his ORIGIN Australia, 2007 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 15 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins government intrusion. work with Aboriginal Town Camp LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins GENRE Narrative Drama GENRE Narrative Comedy communities in the Central Desert. GENRE Narrative Drama AWARDS/SELECTIONS Montreal World AWARDS/SELECTIONS Flickerfest Film Lamberti, who has lived in Alice AWARDS/SELECTIONS Message Sticks Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection Festival 2008 – Best Australian Film; Springs since 2005, creates an Chloe Hooper Festival 2008 – Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2008 – intimate forum, straight from the Writer Crystal Bear for Best Short Film; Inside community’s mouth. The end Film 2007 – Best Short Film Chloe Hooper's first novel,A Child's Finding a new job can be difficult Travelling from the city, a woman result is a rich dialogue of stories Book of True Crime, became a New at the best of times. Add to the mix finds herself having to stop in and viewpoints rarely found in Nana’s granddaughter thinks Nana York Times ‘Notable Book’. Her a dollop of financial pressure and a a remote country town only to mainstream media. The people is pretty special. She loves her Nana With presentation writings on the Palm Island death bunch of potential employees that be confronted by her own racial whose lives were affected by the because she helps the old people, of NITV’s award for in custody won a Walkley Award can’t see past the colour of your prejudices. implementation of the policy, were she’s a good painter and other and was shortlisted for the Amnesty skin, and it gets near impossible. never given the chance to have their Best Achievement in people love her too. Nana’s got International Media Awards. She What’s Dan to do on days like say. This is their voice. Indigenous Film-making everyone under control. has recently published, The Tall these? Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, about this case.

18 FILM FILM 19 RED TERROR EXECUTION OF GIRAFFE IN THE WINDS OF SAND CHEEESE... Australian Premiere SOLOMON HARRIS RAIN Australian Premiere Australian Premiere PAR AVION Australian Premiere Australian Premiere DIRECTOR Joel Jonsson DIRECTOR A Bodin Saphir WRITER/ DIRECTOR Hüseyin Tabak WRITER Eli Azuri & A Bodin Saphir PRODUCERS Gamze Tabak, Hüseyin Tabak WRITER David Fesseha DIRECTORS Wyatt Garfield & Ed Yonaitis WRITER/ DIRECTOR Pascale Hecquet PRODUCERS Baher Agbaria, Rene Ezra ORIGIN Germany/Austria, 2008 International PRODUCER Dominik Gerlach WRITER Ed Yonaitis. PRODUCER Ingrid Guelff and A Bodin Saphir LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, Kurdish ORIGIN Sweden, 2008 PRODUCER Jett Steiger ORIGIN Belgium/France 2007 ORIGIN Israel/UK/Denmark, 2008 with English subtitles, 12 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English,18 mins ORIGIN USA, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH No dialogue, Shorts LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 15 mins GENRE Narrative Drama GENRE Narrative Drama LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins 12 mins GENRE Narrative Drama AWARDS/SELECTIONS Austrian AWARDS/SELECTIONS GENRE Narrative Drama GENRE Animated Comedy AWARDS/SELECTIONS A Film For Nomination for Student Oscar 2008; Session Centrescreen Awards – Best Overall AWARDS/SELECTIONS Sundance Film AWARDS/SELECTIONS World Film Peace Festival 2008 – Official Selection World Film Festival Montreal 2008 – Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Festival 2008 – Official Selection 2008; Festival of Montreal Canada 2007- Official Selection; Independent Film Best Production Design and Best Sound Krakow Film Festival 2008 – Official Opening Night Selection; Young Two fierce enemy combatants, Festival L’Alternativa Barcelona 2008 – Selection 2008; Cannes Online Film Directors Film Festival of St-Jean- 6.00pm Sun 16th Nov 2008, During the ‘Red Terror’ political Shmil ben Ari (Nina’s Tragedies Official Selection Festival – Official Selection 2008 de-Luz, 2007 - Best Creativity Award; Kino Cinemas campaign in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Freeze Frame International Film & Go, See and Become) and army forced every first-born male to An electric chair execution fails, Festival 2008, Young Jury Award; Berlin Kais Nashif (Paradise Now) are It is March 2003 somewhere in Iraq. join the battle against the rebellious delivering a non-lethal jolt of International Film Festival 2008 – embroiled in a nameless war and Kamal and his Kurdish family are liberation front. Scared of the electricity that leaves the prisoner Crystal Bear for Best Short Film; Inside stranded together in a nameless trapped in the bunker beneath their ruthless dictatorship, Mahari sends screaming in pain. Protocol and Film 2007 – Best Short Film desert. Fighting for superiority and house and are desperate for help MAKE A WISH his son Alemu away to hide from routine fail to provide a resolution, survival, they become locked in a from American forces. All the while the military forces. But when they and the Warden has to cope with In Djambali, water is scarce, and continuous spiral of violence, hatred Amanc, Kamal’s son, snaps pictures take his father instead, Alemu has and regret. Who is the prisoner of his family and their appalling WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER the human dilemma that falls into what little there is, is reserved for the to decide his fate. and who is the captor, and what will living conditions with his new digital Cherien Dabis his hands. luxurious swimming pool of Sir Lion. become of their journey together? camera. Running short on supplies, ORIGIN USA/ Palestine, 2006 When one brave giraffe attempts tempers run high. Will they be LANGUAGE/LENGTH Arabic with to tap into the lion’s supply, she is caught and deported from her own Director’s note: This is a film about saved in time? English subtitles, 12 mins NEW BOY THE JOB country and forced to seek asylum conflict made by people in conflict. GENRE Narrative Drama The cast and crew were made up AWARDS/SELECTIONS WRITER/DIRECTOR Steph Green WRITER/DIRECTOR Jonathan Browning up north. Fitting into her new home is not easy especially when everyone of Israelis and Palestinians, many Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival PRODUCERS Tamara Anghie PRODUCERS Leslie McManus & working together for the first time. 2007 – Prix De La Presse; Dubai ORIGIN Ireland, 2007 Sean Buck around her is a dog. International Film Festival 2007 – Gold LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 11 mins ORIGIN USA, 2007 Muhr Award for Best Short; Sundance GENRE Narrative Drama LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 4 mins Film Festival 2007 – Official Selection AWARDS/SELECTIONS Tribeca Film GENRE Narrative Comedy Festival 2008– Best Narrative Short; AWARDS/SELECTIONS A young Palestinian girl will do Seattle International Film Festival – DC International Shorts Festival 2008 – whatever it takes to buy a birthday Special Jury Award for Best Short Film Audience Choice Award; San Francisco cake. 2008; Melbourne International Film Independent Film Festival 2008 – Best Festival 2008 – Outstanding Short Film Comedy; Festival International des Tres BA “[Make A Wish] … reinforces the GS power of short films and the ability Promoting Human Values, Best Short Courts 2007 - Grand Prix Award; Film 2008; Berlin International Film New Hampshire Film Festival 2007 – Best O to achieve cinematic greatness N within the span of a few minutes” Festival – Crystal Bear Special Mention Comedy Short Film –– Phill Hall, Film Threat for Best Short Film 2008 W The immigration debate just got a H “..it is the natural, often charming, Based on a Roddy Doyle’s short little funnier. E story, Joseph, a young African E performances, that gives this 12 L minute film its heart.” –– Angus immigrant, struggles to make a S Wolfe Murray, Eye for Eye Film place for himself during his first day at an Irish school.

FILM 21 20 FILM crumplerbagsonwheels.com THE KOLABORATOR WARCHILD CLEAN UP AT THE DEATH HOUSE Screening before Warchild Australian Premiere Australian Premiere DOOR Screening before At the Death House Door Australian Premiere DIRECTOR Chris Bessounian DIRECTOR Christian Wagner WRITERS/PRODUCERS WRITER Edin H. Hadzimahovic WRITER/DIRECTOR Sebastian Mez WRITERS/DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS Steve James & Chris Bessounian, Tiana Langham PRODUCER Christian Wagner PRODUCER Christoph Arni Peter Gilbert ORIGIN Austria/Romania/UK, 2007 ORIGIN Germany/Bosnia, 2006 ORIGIN Germany, 2008 ORIGIN USA, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH Serbo-croatian with English LANGUAGE/LENGTH German with English subtitles, LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 9 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 96 mins Subtitles, 15 mins 103 mins GENRE Narrative GENRE Documentary GENRE Narrative Drama GENRE Narrative Drama AWARDS/SELECTIONS AWARDS/SELECTIONS South by Southwest 2008 AWARDS/SELECTIONS AWARDS/SELECTIONS Montreal World Film Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Spotlight Premiere; Full Frame Festival 2008 – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Festival – Best Screenplay Award; Bavarian Film 2008 – Official Selection Inspiration Award; Atlanta Film Festival 2008 – Best 2008 - Award for Excellence; Kimera Film Festival Awards 2007 – Special Jury Prize Documentary Feature Termoli Italy 2008 - Grand Jury Prize for Best Film A janitor enters a room, draws open the curtains The second installment in Christian Wagner’s and commences methodically cleaning and For 15 years, Rev. Carroll Pickett served as During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia Balkan Blues trilogy, Warchild is the moving disinfecting. In the room is a bed. As he goes the death house chaplain to the Walls prison many soldiers were ordered to kill fellow story of one woman’s quest to find her lost about his work, we hear, via audio and subtitles, unit in Huntsville, Texas. He presided over 95 citizens including friends and relatives in daughter. what has recently occurred in the room. Chilling. executions, including the first lethal injection to the name of patriotism. Goran, a promising be administered anywhere in the world. young soccer player transitions to a life of an Senada is irrevocably caught up in the Bosnian After each execution, Pickett made an executioner, virtually overnight. Challenged conflict when her daughter, Aida, is taken from audiotape documenting his involvement with by his soccer coach and life-long friend, her. Nine years on, Senada refuses to give up the victim and the distress he felt over his Assim, Goran is forced to choose between his hope that Aida is still alive, despite protests from own role in the death chamber. Pickett was own life and that of his friend. her friends and ex-husband. After discovering particularly shaken over the execution of a that the Red Cross flew children from Bosnia to young man, Carlos de Luna, whom he firmly Germany during the war, Senada begins a long believed to be innocent –– a suspicion which and treacherous journey to reunite with Aida. fresh evidence discovered by the Chicago When she arrives, she is forced to make a choice Tribune reporters appeared to support. between her love for her long-lost daughter and her struggle to heal her wounds. A stirring montage of photographs, sound and raw emotion, the film offers an unflinchingly “… psychologically and politically profound” original commentary on the death penalty. –– Tamara Straus (San Francisco Chronicle) “Poignant, heart-rending story… Carroll Pickett’s compassion and sympathy, so expertly captured by James and Gilbert, should be a humbling lesson for us all.” –– Cinematical

Screening 9.00pm Sun 16 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas Screening 6.30pm Thur 20 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 22 FILM FILM 23 FLOWERS OF RWANDA TRIAGE: Dr. James UNDRESSING VANESSA JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO Australian Premiere Orbinski’s Humanitarian Australian Premiere PRESENT Screening before Triage Dilemma Screening before Jerusalem is Proud to Present Australian Premiere Australian Premiere With Discussion Forum featuring WRITER/DIRECTOR David Munoz WRITER/ DIRECTOR Matthew Pond Tobin Saunders and Rodney Croome PRODUCER Hibrida PRODUCERS Matthew Pond & Tina Lymberis DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Patrick Reed ORIGIN Spain, 2008 ORIGIN Australia, 2007 WRITER/DIRECTOR Nitzan Gilady LANGUAGE/LENGTH French with English subtitles, ORIGIN Canada, 2007 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 21 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 88 mins PRODUCERS Galia Bador & Nitzan Gilady 24 mins GENRE Documentary ORIGIN Israel, 2007 GENRE Documentary GENRE Documentary AWARDS/SELECTIONS AWARDS/SELECTIONS Sundance Film Festival LANGUAGE/LENGTH English Hebrew/Arabic/ AWARDS/SELECTIONS Inside Film (IF) Awards 2008 – Best Documentary Yiddish with English subtitles, 82 mins Festival Dunas de Cine Y Video Spain 2008 – Best 2008 – Official Selection, Grand Jury Prize nominee; nominee; Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film Hot Docs 2008 – Official Selection GENRE Documentary Documentary Award; Trimedia Film Festival USA 2008 - and Video Festival 2008 – Official Selection AWARDS/SELECTIONS Chicago International Film Best Short Documentary Jury Award Undressing Vanessa documents the unlikely Festival 2008 – ‘Silver Hugo’ Television Award for The act of triage is the ultimate humanitarian Best Documentary; International Documentary Film nightmare, where relief workers are forced to journey of a suburban Aussie boy - Tobin Flowers of Rwanda is a probing documentary Saunders - who after being inspired by his Festival Amsterdam 2007- ‘Movies That Matter’ with many questions. Reflecting on the horrific make split-second decisions about who lives Human Rights Award; Outfest Film Festival 2007 – and who must be left to die. mother’s 1970’s patio parties in Sydney’s 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the film creates a northern beaches, gave birth to Australia’s Outstanding Documentary Feature Award discourse between policy makers, educators and most political drag personality: ‘Vanessa survivors around the concepts of forgiveness, Triage follows Dr. James Orbinski, former In the summer of 2006, for the first time president of Médecins Sans Frontières and Wagner’. For more than two decades, Vanessa Jerusalem was to host the World Pride events justice, reconciliation and the potential likelihood has been frocking up, having a laugh and of a re-occurrence of 1994’s atrocities. Nobel Peace Prize winner, as he takes a heart- culminating with a gay pride parade. The wrenching journey back to Africa to write a advocating for human rights, with a little help planned events stirred turmoil in the politically memoir and make sense of his past experiences from ‘Pauline Pantsdown’. complex city, with Jewish, Muslim and Christian working at the forefront of human suffering. religious leaders banding together in an uncompromising battle against what they Despite the evacuation of the international Tobin Saunders said would “defile the holy city”. On the other community, Dr. Orbinski stays to tend to Performer side stood the activists of the Open House for hundreds of thousands of victims during the Pride and Tolerance, Jerusalem’s Lesbian, Gay, Tobin Saunders is a freelance performer, writer, Rwandan genocide, the Somali famine and Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning actor, choreographer and dancer, who has the civil war in the Democratic Republic of community centre, who were determined not appeared at Mardi Gras Parades and Belvoir Congo. Negotiating with army forces, corrupt to back down. Steadfast in the face of the St Theatre. Tobin is now working solo with his governments and warlords to work in crisis heated and violent anti-gay sentiment, they famous Vanessa Wagner character and appears zones, Orbinski’s efforts were challenged by had to deal with threats to much more than just in the media as a social commentator and threats of violence and a near-fatal lack of their right to march... contemporary icon. supplies. Yet in the midst of these places where humanity is literally torn apart, Orbinski “More terrifying than any special-effects-laden discovers nobility, friendship and the true horror film I can imagine” –Chicago Public strength of the human spirit. Rodney Croome Radio Activist A remarkable story of bravery and compassion Rodney Croome is a long-time Australian gay “Blood-boiling stuff …Hot-button pic” pushed to its limit. rights advocate. He fronted the successful –– Variety campaign for the decriminalisation of same- “The film, in a literal sense, shows the sex relationships in Tasmania and is currently difference one person can make.” a prominent advocate for marriage equality. –– Anthony Breznican, USA Today In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his work on behalf of the Screening 9.30pm Thur 20 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas LGBT community. Screening 6.30pm Fri 21 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 24 FILM FILM 25 WAR TORN: Stories of THE RECRUITER Separation Australian Premiere Screening before The Recruiter WRITER/DIRECTOR Edet Belzberg DIRECTOR David Modell PRODUCERS Edet Belzberg & Alan Oxman ORIGIN UK, 2006 ORIGIN USA, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 82 mins GENRE Documentary GENRE Documentary AWARDS/SELECTIONS AWARDS/SELECTIONS Sundance Film Festival Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary 2008 – Official Selection, Grand Jury Prize nominee; Festival 2008 – Official Selection Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, New York 2008 – Official Selection

The horrors of the Iraq war emerge through a With bloody conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan series of stills. Stories of separation and loss as still raging and the death toll of US soldiers narrated by the people most affected. Modell mounting, The Recruiter captures a has created a deeply personal portrait of the phenomenon now occurring throughout the pressures suffered by a family when a loved United States - the intense push to recruit new one travels into a war zone and risks their life soldiers into the US Army. and sanity in the most hostile of environments. Moving and captivating. Shot in verité style, the film captures the day- to-day life of its remarkable central character, Louisiana’s Sergeant First Class Clay Usie, one of the most successful US army recruiters whose life is almost entirely dedicated to his mission of finding new soldiers in his hometown of Houma, Louisiana.

The Recruiter also follows the journeys of Lauren, Matt and Bobby, three of Sgt. Usie’s new recruits, who spend their last semester of high school preparing for boot camp and bracing themselves for the transition from student to soldier.

Matt seems to be looking for a new father figure; Lauren for a way into college she couldn’t otherwise afford; and Bobby, the only one who seems to be signing up out of something other than necessity, has a veteran father who doesn’t want his son to risk his life. Oscar-nominee Edet Belzberg (Children Underground) shows us the compelling human story behind Uncle Sam’s voracious appetite for fresh cannon fodder.

Screening 9.30pm Fri 21 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 26 FILM FILM 27 SISTERS ON THE A CASTLE IN THE KEEP YOUR EARS ON PARKING PLANET SAND Australian Premiere REEL Australian Premiere WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER WRITER/DIRECTOR Robbie McEwan WRITER/DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER Bill Plympton DIRECTOR Jessica Feast PRODUCER Aleks Radovic Martha Goddard ORIGIN USA, 2001 CHANGE PRODUCER Jason Garmam ORIGIN Australia, 2007 ORIGIN Australia, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH No dialogue, 5 mins ORIGIN Australia, 2008 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 2 mins GENRE Animated Comedy Short films on the LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins GENRE Narrative Comedy GENRE Narrative Comedy AWARDS/SELECTION Sundance Film GENRE Documentary AWARDS/SELECTION Short Shorts Festival 2003, Official Selection human impact of Film Festival – Official Selection 2008. A young man floats aimlessly on a Ursula is a traditional owner of one of Tokyo, Sustainable Living Festival – single mattress in the middle of an A parking attendant, in a pristine Climate Change the Carteret Islands, off the coast of Official Selection 2008 expansive ocean, struggling to stay concreted world, battles a Papua New Guinea. Against a ticking afloat, as we catch snippets of the persistent plant that is invading his clock, Ursula is working to relocate Graham has built the most final radio broadcast on planet Earth. territory. 12.30pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, thousands of Islanders forced to spectacular sand castle on Kino Cinemas uproot their lives due to rising sea the beach, complete with air Keep Your Ears On is a satirical A comical animation about the 21st May, 2008 JOB | MPH Sticker > Long COLOUR | Black conditioning and all mod-cons. But exploration of the current absurdity of humans’ attempts to DIMENSIONS | W - 297mm H - 60mm levels which will leave their island SIZE | 600 dpi PDF vers print PROGRAM | CS2 Illustrator environmental crisis we face as a control nature and their devotion to PresentedIf any there are issues with printing please contact, Liza on 0407by 713 363. home submerged and uninhabitable when the tide rises he can’t give in just a matter of years. it up and vows to fight the ocean global community. the built environment. rather than move to higher ground. Sisters on the Planet hones in on the tragic effects of climate change and This allegorical film critiques the EARLY BIRD I DON’T BELIEVE IN those most startlingly affected. idea that technological solutions can GLOBAL WARMING With Discussion Forum save us from climate change while WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER featuring Emretta Cross, maintaining our current lifestyles. Tuvaluan Resident Trace Balla DIRECTORS Sheldon Lieberman & ORIGIN Australia, 2008 Igor Coric LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins WRITER Sheldon Lieberman GENRE Animated Comedy PRODUCER Colin Brown for Big Fish TV AN UNCERTAIN SILENT SNOW MY SHOUT AWARDS/SELECTION Edinburgh ORIGIN Australia, 2007 FUTURE International Film Festival 2008 – Official LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 2 mins Australian Premiere WRITER/DIRECTOR Jan Van Den Berg WRITER/DIRECTOR Julian Argus Selection; Little Big Shots international GENRE Animation PRODUCERS Jan Van Den Berg, Ole PRODUCER Julian Argus & Jeff Asselin Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection AWARDS/SELECTION WRITER/DIRECTOR Participants of Jørgen Hammeken ORIGIN Australia, 2007 A celebration of the magic of Berlin Webcuts 2007 – Audience Award; the Pacific Black Box Environmental ORIGIN Netherlands, 2007 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 12 mins metamorphosis and the joy of Hiroshima Animation Festival 2007 – Advocacy and Media forum on Climate LANGUAGE/LENGTH Inuit, 15 mins GENRE Narrative Drama riding a bike. Official Selection Change, Buka, Bougainville GENRE Documentary AWARDS/SELECTION Western A satirical and hilarious animated PRODUCER Taloi Havini & Georgia AWARDS/SELECTION Australian Screen Awards 2007 - Best Early Bird is a whimsical animation tribute to global warming McRae (Pacific Black Box Inc) International Documentary Festival Drama and Best Production Design; about commuting in our modern scepticism and its allure. ORIGIN Bougainville, 2008 Amsterdam (IDFA) 2007, Official Bondi Film Festival 2007 – Best world. LANGUAGE/LENGTH Pidgin/English, Selection 2007; Slow Food on Film Production Design 10 mins Festival Bologna 2008 – Best Short Film GENRE Documentary A farmer faced with the financial AWARDS/SELECTION A silent assassin is destroying the collapse of his farm and the THE LITTLE THINGS Pacific Climate Change Film Festival Inuit community in Greenland. breakdown of his marriage takes Through currents in the ocean matters into his own hands… 2008 – Official Selection DIRECTOR Jean-Louis Lam and attached to snow, pesticides WRITERS Caroline Leung, Daniel An Uncertain Future tells the story like DDT are carried northbound My Shout explores the recent social Symons, Jean-Louis Lam of the 2000-strong community into Inuit land, poisoning humans and economic decline of small PRODUCERS Caroline Leung, Daniel living in the Cartaret Islands, and animals. wheat-belt communities, due not Papua New Guinea, who will soon only to climate change but also to Symons (WayCazWee Productions) ORIGIN Australia, 2008 become the world’s first climate With spectacular cinematography global economic pressures on local LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 3mins change refugees. of their icy, fairy tale homeland, farmers to ‘get big or get out’. GENRE Animated Narrative Silent Snow follows two young girls Made by a group of young Cartaret in their daily lives as they grapple Islanders who had never before with the knowledge that life as they A beautifully animated guide to the touched a camera, computer or know it is slowly disappearing. difference each person can make. MP3 player, this film poetically Change starts with the little things. captures the views and reflections of the people as they prepare to relocate to the mainland due to rises in sea level which will make their Pacific island home disappear in a matter of years.

28 FILM FILM 29 TICKETING Lulu Mitshabu HRAFF has been exempted from classification from the Office Caritas Australia of Film and Literature Classification. The films in the Festival are ACCESSIBILITY restricted to people over 18 years of age Lulu Mitshabu was born in the MAP Democratic Republic of Congo TICKET BOOKINGS ACCESS and migrated to Australia in June PRICES 1991. She holds a Masters degree Single $16 Full/$13 Conc. Online Visit www.hraff.org.au Public Venues are walking distance in International Development and Opening Tickets can be purchased Transport from Flinders St Station and Community Development. She $25 Full/$20 Conc. using credit card or Paypal Parliament Station, and are joined Caritas Australia in April (includes drinks and Online booking fee of $2.50 accessible by tram services 2000 and subsequently became the nibbles prior to film) applies. travelling on Bourke St, Programs Officer for the Africa and Closing $20 Full/$18 Conc. Flinders St or Collins St. Latin America programs. (includes discounted Parking Phone Kino Cinemas: Collins Place drinks and after party @ Call (03) 8352 4434 Car Park offers patrons free Festival Lounge Phone booking fee of Deb Bryant parking. First 2 hours free, $4.00 applies. $65 Full/$50 Conc. then $2 per hour thereafter. Western Region Centre Against Mini Festival (your choice of 5 films, Note: Booking fees apply per Patrons must validate Sexual Assault Pass transaction and not per ticket excludes Opening/Closing parking ticket at the box- purchased. Phone and online office for discount. Discount Deb Bryant is the Executive Officer nights) Only 50 for sale- sales are only available up to THE GREATEST SILENCE: does not apply to pre-paid of the Western Region Centre book early! 2 hours prior to session time. Rape in the Congo Against Sexual Assault and is on Tickets can be printed from parking. Located at Full Festival $170 Full/$150 Conc. the board of the Domestic Violence home or collected at the box 72 Flinders Lane. With Discussion Forum featuring Pass (unlimited films, includes Resource Centre, is the Victorian office before screening. Photo ID Lulu Mitshabu and Deborah Bryant Opening/Closing nights. Capitol Theatre: 200 Little

representative on the National is required for ticket collection, Not transferable) and any applicable concession Collins St, Melb - $1.75 per RUSSELL WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Lisa Jackson Association for Services Against cards. hour or $6.60 flat after 5pm Sexual Violence, and is on the ORIGIN USA, 2007 Special Groups of 10 or more VicHealth Violence Against Women Accessibility* Companion cards are LENGTH/LANGUAGE English/Swahili with English Discounts receive a 10% discount. subtitles, 76 mins Advisory Committee. Partners of the Festival In Person From the Box Office accepted for concession

GENRE Narrative Rates receive 15% at Capitol Theatre and rates. Free for carers. LONSDALE

LITTLE LONSDALE Kino Cinemas. Avoid SWANSTON AWARDS/SELECTIONS discount Kino Cinemas and Capitol Concessions rates apply to students, pensioners, disappointment by booking Sundance Film Festival 2007- Special Jury Prize: Theatre have full wheelchair seniors, health care card holders, concession card early or arrive at least 15 Documentary; London Human Rights Watch Film Festival accessibility. 2008- Official Selection; New York Human Rights Watch holders, Companion Card holders and OPEN minutes prior to session time. Film Festival 2008- Official Selection CHANNEL members. Companion Card holders Please note that Red Violin enable carers to enter for free. and Carlton Studios are NOT Melbourne wheelchair accessible. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Central Sundance Film Festival, The Greatest Silence: Rape Station For a detailed description in the Congo is an extraordinary film that demands of accessibility services at to be seen. BOURKE ST participating Festival venues, Tram RUSSELL ST RUSSELL please contact: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, rape is a Kino Cinemas: 9650 2100 national atrocity on a scale unimaginable in the Capitol Theatre: 9650 4017 West, a part of the brutal war that the country was Art Exhibition – The Carlton plunged into in 1998. Tens of thousands of girls ST SWANSTON LITTLE COLLINS ST Studios: 9663 3246 have been violated and cast aside, their stories a ST EXHIBITION blind spot in global humanitarian action. Emmy ST SPRING Festival Lounge - Red Violin: award-winning filmmaker, Lisa F.. Jackson, travels to Train: 9639 1121 the Congo to shatter the silence surrounding this Parliament Station HRAFF is a newly established epidemic that is ravaging the nation. COLLINS ST festival, working to improve Tram COLLINS ST “This documentary of the highest calling exposes across accessibility. Please an unknown tragedy.” ––The Hollywood Reporter call us on 9639 1121 if you have specific accessibility requirements. FLINDERS LN Presented by Flinders St Station

Films- Art- Carlton Studios Public Transport Capitol Theatre: Lvl 1, 193-197 Bourke St, Melb 113 Swanston St, Melb Screening 3.00pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas Kino Cinemas: Lounge- Red Violin 30 FILM 45 Collins St, Melb Lvl 2, 231 Bourke St, Melb FILM 31

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Fear not, as we have an $5 Barossa Valley Brewery bottles, Theatre Foyer- Leo Dale & Rosaline Yuen Foyer- Maestro Khalil Gudaz astonishing collection of world music and a Bee Sting & Organic Ale Girish Makwana This talented young songstress will Khalil Gudaz is one of the most vibrant, friendly atmosphere at our festival $10 Fair Trade Espresso Martini Girish Makwana and Leo Dale have a provide the perfect Sunday night outstanding practitioners of Sitar lounge, Red Violin. firm belief that there is no such thing atmosphere with her emotive vocal of Hindustani and Afghani music in as "meditation music" but rather that style and sweetly soulful alternative Australia today. This internationally Ascend the plush red stairs of this cherry coloured music IS meditation. Does this mean pop songs. Not only will she charm you recognized artist will showcase station to be inspired and delighted by a diverse music to float off on and no funk? NO with her performance, she will donate his dazzling mastery of the Sitar WAY! These two master musicians all profits from the sale of her album with breathtaking songs and assortment of artists from all over the globe. and musical storytellers explore the Garden to Amnesty International. improvisations at Closing Night. With its comfortable couches, baroque upholstery translation between Jazz and Classical and city views Red Violin is the perfect place to Indian cultures with a beat set to Thursday 20th 9pm @ Red Closing Night @ Red Violin relax and unwind after a film or a stirring tour of mesmerise. Violin- Afro Habesha 9:30pm- King Marong, the Art Exhibition. Formed recently under the guidance Muhanamwe Thursday 13th Opening Night of one of Ethiopia’s best musicians, Master of percussion, melodic Present your festival tickets for significant RED VIOLIN @ Red Violin 9:30pm- Black Roots Daniel Atlaw, this lively band plays singer and charismatic performer, discounts on Barossa Valley liquor including Level 2, 231 Bourke St, With a line up of some of Melbourne’s catchy arrangements of traditional King Marong is an honoured and Bee Sting and Organic Ale Beers and our very Melbourne CBD most respected and accomplished jazz, and contemporary music from revered Gambian artist. He will use his own festival cocktail, the Fair Trade Espresso www.redviolin.com.au reggae and world musicians, and some Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Also expertise on the Djembe and Sabar Martini. All HRAFF entertainment will take place of the rarest African vocal talent to hit featuring great Australian musicians ensemble to bring a vibrant African our shores in recent times, Black Roots Nicky Bomba and Patrick Kearney rhythm to Closing Night festivities. on level 2, see map for details. will bring a soulful African reggae act and Ethiopian circus musicians Seble to opening night proceedings. Girma, Abiy Sahele and Cass. Muhanamwe, meaning 'culture', was formed with the vision of sharing the Friday 21st 9pm @ Red Violin- Friday 14th 11pm @ Red Violin- traditional West African culture with Tipu Tipuana Diafrix with Little G Australian people. Bringing together Fronted by Colombian songbird Following the film Bling, the evenings powerful rhythms, sweet melodies and Rose Paez, this four piece acoustic hip hop theme will continue as Diafrix stunning moves, Muhanamwe brings Spoken word and human ensemble draw on their Latin American THE and Little G team up for an electrifying to life the colourful and vibrant culture rights will merge as the backgrounds to inspire breathtaking HRAFF show at the Festival Lounge. Rhymes of West Africa. Muhanamwé will deliver HRAFF Poetry Slam comes to melodies with rich, charming, woody POETRY will flow and human rights awareness a highly captivating and unforgettable life. With backgrounds and tones. Their alluring, exotic style is in SLAM: will grow as these renowned performers performance on Closing Night. opinions as colourful as their keeping with their band name which fuse funk, soul and reggae into an words, our engaging array scientifically means ‘Rose Wood’. exhilarating hip-hop act of poets will challenge and confront your philosophies Saturday 15th 9pm @ Red Saturday 22nd 9pm @ Red 6.30pm for on social justice. Hosted by Violin- Uber Lingua Sound Violin- Jungal 7pm start Cam Black and featuring System & Gypsy Sound System This all-female trio combine Wed 19 Nov poets Kerry Loughrey, Maxine This amazing collection of DJs, MC’s, didgeridoos, slide guitars, bass and 2008, Red Clarke, Komninos Zervos, Lita VJ’s and musicians go far beyond percussion with their warm harmonies Violin, lvl 2 Gillies and more. ‘World’ music by fusing languages, and powerful performances to cultures and social movements with captivate and delight audiences. hip hop, electronic, dub, rock and any Jungal has created a distinct brand other genre you can come up with. of blues and roots music with their Featuring DJ bP, Mr. Fish (Turntablist), poignant vocals and earthy sound that Riff Raff (MC - Zimbabwe), Siadatz is not to be missed. (Uber VJ), TBC - Pataphysics (MC Sri Lanka), Travor Brown (electronics, sax, flute), Veren Grigorov (Violin - Bulgaria), Dirk Kruithof (Skankin Guitar).

34 FILM FILM 35 A DIFFERENT KIND OF THE DAY AFTER PEACE NORTH KOREA: A Day in PLEASE VOTE FOR ME GUN Australian Premiere the Life Australian Premiere Australian Premiere DIRECTOR Weijun Chen Screening before The Day After Peace WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Jeremy Gilley Screening with Please Vote For Me PRODUCER Don Edkins ORIGIN UK, 2008 ORIGIN South Africa/Denmark, 2007 DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Peter Jordan LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 82 mins WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Pieter Fleury LANGUAGE/LENGTH Mandarin with English ORIGIN USA/Sudan, 2007 GENRE Documentary ORIGIN Netherlands, 2004 subtitles, 58 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH Sudanese with English AWARDS/SELECTIONS Cannes International Film LANGUAGE/LENGTH Korean with English subtitles, GENRE Documentary subtitles, 15 mins Festival 2008 – Official Selection; BritDoc Festival 48 mins AWARDS/SELECTIONS Ashland Independent GENRE Documentary 2008 – Official Selection; Zimbabwe International GENRE Documentary Film Festival 2008 – Best Documentary Feature; AWARDS/SELECTIONS United Nations Film Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection; Cinema Verité, AWARDS/SELECTIONS IndieLisboa International Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival 2007 – Gold Medal winner; International Paris 2008 – Official Selection Independent Film Festival 2005 - Amnesty Festival 2007 – Sterling Award for Best Feature Documentary Film Festival 2007 – Official Selection Following the infectiously idealistic Jeremy International Award; Pyongyang Film Festival 2004 - Please Vote For Me chronicles China’s first Special Award for Best Documentary A Different Kind of Gun offers a heartbreaking Gilley ––a British actor-turned-activist and experiment with democratic process ––in a founder of the ‘Peace One Day’ organization - insight into the plight of Sudan’s children, Notoriously inaccessible to the world’s media, third grade class election! The Day After Peace charts Gilley’s attempts to whose lives have been ravaged by war and daily life in North Korea is unveiled in all its create a day of simultaneous global ceasefire violence and subsequent displacement. The baffling and frightening form in this haunting, Shot fly-on-the-wall style, the film chronicles and non-violence in the conflict hot-spots of children, however, have not given up. They observational film which seems to straddle the heated race between three children the globe, a day where people put down their have hope that an education will grant them documentary and fiction. running for Class Monitor in an elementary a better future. Narrated and filmed almost weapons for 24 hours and experience calm school in Wuhan. The incumbent is a known and peace, perhaps for the first time. entirely by children, this is their story. Undergoing an endless stream of propaganda, bully. His main rivals are a tearful little girl, and Hong Sun Hui, a female worker in a textile a quick-witted loudmouth, who collectively Over more than 10 years, Gilley struggles as factory performs her duties unmoved. and aggressively go for the jugular to secure his dream faces financial obstacles, cynicism Meanwhile, her daughter sings nursery rhymes their classmates’ votes. and ethical dilemmas. Against the odds, with about the evil of the US and learns that a plan so big it seems like total naiveté, can “flowers need the sun and she needs the love Exploring whether politics and the democratic Jeremy walk the tightrope between political of the Great Leader to grow”. process remain subject to corruption in a diplomacy and agitating change, between completely alien environment, Please Vote For symbolism and action? A matter of fact, shocking and highly Me hones in on a set of eight-year-olds who, entertaining look at an ordinary day in the hilariously yet disturbingly, begin to mirror the Featuring Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, the country of the Beloved Leader, Kim Jong II. manipulations, name calling and bribery of Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Annie Lennox and their typical adult counterparts, and reflect in Johnny Lee Miller, The Day After Peace is a thoughtful, funny and offbeat way, the trials not to be missed! that candidacy and political process naturally bring to their participants. “One of the most engaging, inspiring films I’ve ever seen. … In time, everyone should watch The Day After Peace ––the adventures of Jude and Jeremy in Afghanistan are alone worth the ticket.”–– Nick Fraser, Factuals, BBC

Screening 6.00pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas Screening 9.00pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 36 FILM FILM 37 WANJA PLAYING IN THE Screening before Playing in the Shadows SHADOWS Melbourne Premiere WRITER/DIRECTOR Angie Abdilla PRODUCER Tom Zubrycki WRITERS/DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS ORIGIN Australia, 2007 Marco Ianniello & Sascha Ettinger Epstein LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 25 mins ORIGIN Australia, 2008 GENRE Documentary LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 53 mins GENRE Documentary Once a close-knit indigenous community with AWARDS/SELECTIONS Sydney International Film good housing and harmonious streets; now Festival 2008 – Official Selection a renowned site of escalating tension with police and deteriorating houses, ‘The Block’ in Woolloomooloo, just minutes from Sydney’s Sydney is revealed through the eyes of Auntie CBD, is home to one of the city’s most Barb and the life of her blue heeler dog, infamous housing estates. Playing In The Wanja. Known for her ability to sniff out the Shadows spans a year in the life of a handful of police – in uniform and undercover – Wanja is the estate’s kids as they fight to make the cut The Block’s guardian angel. for an after-dark basketball team, a path out of a life roaming the streets.

Celine is energetic and adorable, despite having a sick dad, no mum and more siblings than she can remember. 11 year-old Jaidyn keeps falling foul of his teachers and the police. Jerry is a gentle giant with a love for cooking and Ainsley’s determination is unparalleled. Who will make it into the team and who can turn their life around?

From an award-winning documentary team, Playing In The Shadows is a moving, uplifting and unique insight into a town next-door but a world away.

Screening 12.30pm Sun 23 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 38 FILM FILM 39 Liberty Victoria ... working to defend and extend human rights THE T-SHIRT USA vs AL-ARIAN and freedoms Screening before USA vs Al-Arian Australian Premiere With Discussion Forum featuring guests WRITER/DIRECTOR Hossein Fazeli Julian Burnside, QC and Rob Stary PRODUCER Jan Dalchow ORIGIN Slovenia, 2006 DIRECTOR Line Halvorsen LANGUAGE/LENGTH Slovenian with English PRODUCER Jan Dalchow subtitles, 9 mins ORIGIN Norway, 2008 GENRE Narrative Comedy LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 100 mins AWARDS/SELECTIONS GENRE Documentary Melbourne International Film Festival 2007 – Best AWARDS/SELECTIONS New Orleans Human Short Film Promoting Human Rights; International Rights Film Festival 2007 – Best Film; Norwegian Telephone 9670 6422 Email [email protected] Jury Award, Bristol Short Film Festival 2006 – Documentary Film Festival 2007 – Best Documentary; International Jury Award Tromsø International Film Festival 2007 – Audience www.libertyvictoria.org.au Award; Hot Docs 2007 – Official Selection A Slovakian store owner and a customer enter into some friendly banter about their mutual love of American baseball that rapidly In February 2003, pro-Palestinian civil rights activist and university professor, Dr. Sami degenerates due to misunderstanding a t-shirt. Julian Burnside, QC Al-Arian, was charged with providing material President Liberty Victoria The T-Shirt is a wry, black comedy commenting support to a terrorist organization. Prior to on the boundaries of tolerance; an international his arrest, Al-Arian was a highly regarded Julian Burnside is a commercial achiever, the film has been screened at over American citizen who attended White barrister based in Melbourne. He 100 film festivals internationally, and received House briefings, advised several members is President of Liberty Victoria, awards at 35 of them. of Congress, and met Presidents Clinton and Bush. However, in the two-and-a-half and has acted pro bono in year lead-up to his trial, Al-Arian was held many human rights cases, most in solitary confinement, denied basic civil famously in the Tampa litigation. privileges and was deprived of full access to He is the author of Word his lawyers. Watching and Watching Brief. In 2004 he was elected as a Living USA vs Al-Arian is an intimate portrait that National Treasure. captures Al-Arian’s dogged legal battle and its impact upon his family. Dragging Sami’s wife, Nahla, and five children through the heartache and stigmatisation that comes with Rob Stary being charged with supporting terrorism, Principal, Robert Stary and Associates the film brings into question government tactics of silencing free speech and denying Rob Stary is Principal of Robert Stary and citizens their basic democratic rights. Could Associates, one of Melbourne’s leading criminal an American who is unashamedly pro- law firms. Over the years, he has represented Palestinian ever receive a fair trial in a culture participants in the S11 and G20 protesters, and of such fear and anti-Muslim prejudice? “Jihad” Jack Thomas. A former Chairman of the Criminal Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria and President of the Criminal Defence Presented by Lawyers Associations, he recently represented the defendants in R v Benbrika. Screening 2.30pm Sun 23 Nov 2008, Kino Cinemas 40 FILM FILM 41 IN THE SAME BOAT THE OTHER SIDE CHANGE COMING BIN APPETIT IN OUR Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere Australian Premiere WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER WRITER/DIRECTOR Robin Geradts-Gill DIRECTOR Mark Alston DIRECTOR Jenia Ratcliffe Emily Bissland PRODUCER Robin Geradts-Gill, VCA WRITERS Loosie Craig, Margaret PRODUCER Matthew Pond, AFTRS BACKYARD ORIGIN Australia, 2007 ORIGIN Australia, 2006 Alston, Mark Alston & Megan Alston ORIGIN Australia, 2006 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 6 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH Mandarin, Italian PRODUCER Dean Bates (Starchild LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 12 mins GENRE Animated Documentary with English subtitles, 15 mins Productions) GENRE Documentary Australian AWARDS/SELECTIONS Antimatter GENRE Absurdist Drama ORIGIN Australia, 2008 Underground Film Festival (USA) AWARDS/SELECTIONS LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins Bin Appetit is about the art of Shorts Program 2008 – Official Selection; Edmonton Split International Film Festival, Croatia GENRE Narrative Drama dumpster diving. It follows a group International Film Festival (Canada) 2008 – Official Selection AWARDS/SELECTIONS Manhattan of adults, young and middle aged 2008 – Official Selection; International Short Film Festival 2008 – Competition individuals who choose to eat Finalist; St Kilda Film Festival 2008 Leipzig Festival for Documentary A parable for the plight of asylum from the rubbish bins of Sydney. – Official Selection; Hollywood Film and Animated Film (Germany) 2008 – seekers in Australia, two feathered They call themselves ‘Freegans’ 5.30pm Sun 23th Nov 2008, Festival 2008 – Official Selection, Crystal Official Selection; Bayside Film Festival friends, fleeing the danger of bird and are in the protest against the Capitol Theatre Bear for Best Short Film; Inside Film 2008 (Australia) – Official Selection flu, make the treacherous journey world’s waste. Social stigmas are 2007 – Best Short Film In today’s climate of global fear, to a new life in Australia only pushed aside as we celebrate an alternative approach to living. two unlikely friends do what to find that the real danger lies Drought has ravaged the family WHEN I GROW UP I governments cannot: overcome fear awaiting for them… farm that Dave has worked on his WANT TO BE WHITE and prejudice with understanding. whole life. Mounting bills, poverty, World Premiere Told through animation, this is the and the stress of physical and BREAD true story of a racist Australian WAR HEAD mental isolation push Dave’s wife, DIRECTORS Ian Dixon & Agatha Yim Vietnam War veteran who meets a Jess, to her limit. WRITER/DIRECTOR Paola Morabito WRITER Agatha Yim young Iraqi refugee. WRITER/DIRECTOR Steven Jablonski PRODUCER Rachel Fiddes PRODUCER OPEN CHANNEL PRODUCER Jacob Oberman With the electricity about to be ORIGIN Australia, 2007 ORIGIN Australia, 2008 ORIGIN Australia, 2006 cut off and the sun blazing down, LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 4 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 14 mins LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 14 mins a change appears on the horizon. GENRE Narrative Drama GENRE Narrative Comedy MADE IN GENRE Narrative Drama However, this is not the change AWARDS/SELECTIONS An ode to the trials and tribulations AUSTRALIA AWARDS/SELECTIONS they’ve all been waiting for. St Kilda Film Festival 2008 – Official of being a second generation Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Seleciton; Little Big Shots 2008 – Official Chinese-Australian, lost in a WRITER/DIRECTOR Amie Batalibasi Screenings 2006 – Music and Effects Selection; WOW Film Festival 2007 – strange identity predicament of PRODUCER Victorian College of the Arts Award for Best Achievement in Sound Official Selection ORIGIN Australia, 2007 STORM IN WORDS being a ‘banana’ ––yellow on the Starring Simon Lyndon (Underbelly, Working at her family’s bread shop LANGUAGE/LENGTH English,11 mins World Premiere outside, white on the inside. Chopper) and Olivia Connolly (Red after school, a little girl longs to be GENRE Documentary Stitch Actors Theatre), Warhead outside playing soccer. AWARDS/SELECTIONS WRITER/DIRECTOR Leila Koren Winner of the 2008 ‘Short and reveals the post-war horror that Margaret River Shorts Film Festival 2008 PRODUCERS Leila Koren & Victorian Sharp’ Pitching Competition - returns home with many Australians presented by OPEN CHANNEL in – Official Selection College of the Arts, University of soldiers from Iraq, sending family Melbourne association with HRAFF - Agatha life off on a tragic new trajectory. Yim received mentorship and ORIGIN Australia, 2008 Following the stories of five support from OPEN CHANNEL to LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 5 mins extraordinary Vietnamese women translate her vision into film within GENRE Documentary living in Melbourne, Made in five months to premiere at this She’s just “Little G” the half-Greek, Australia unveils the true cost year’s HRAFF. half-indigenous, shorter-than-most- of fashion, right here in our own female MC. This film was made possible with the backyards. generous support of Film Victoria, through See Little G perform at the Festival the 2008 Short & Sharp Pitching Competition. Lounge!

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HRAFF strives to support new and emerging The Margaret Pomeranz award for filmmakers and to enhance the opportunities Best International Submission available for filmmakers who are creatively Selected and presented by Margaret Pomeranz engaging with issues of human rights, social justice (At The Movies) and indigenous Australia. The lucky winner will receive $500 cash prize, a Crumpler Karachi Outpost bag, a Madman We are proud to offer our filmmakers the DVD pack and a year’s subscription to Film Ink following awards, which will be presented magazine. throughout the festival: Best Achievement in Indigenous Filmmaking The ‘Noyce Choice’ Award for Best Director Sponsored by National Indigenous Television (NITV) Sponsored by Australian Directors Guild (ADG) and The lucky winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, THE DAYS AND THE KICKING IT selected by acclaimed Australian director Phillip Noyce $1,200 worth of equipment hire and/or courses (Rabbit Proof Fence) HOURS With Discussion Forum featuring from Open Channel and a year’s subscription to Australian Premiere Tim Costello & George Halkias The lucky winner will receive a relevant Director’s Film Ink magazine. Screening before Kicking It attachment/mentorship by ADG, a $1,000 Australian Writer’s Guild Award for DIRECTORS Susan Koch & Jeff Werner investment prize with Australian Ethical Investment, Best Script DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS WRITER Jeff Werner $1,000 worth of equipment hire and resources from Sponsored and selected by the Australian Writer’s Guild John Haptas & Kristine Samuelson PRODUCER Ted Leonsis, Jedd Wider & Todd Wider Video Australasia and a year’s subscription to Film WRITER Jeff Werner ORIGIN USA, 2008 Ink magazine. The lucky winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, ORIGIN USA, 2006 LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 98 mins a $250 voucher for access to equipment and/or LANGUAGE/LENGTH English, 8 mins GENRE Documentary courses at Open Channel, Madman DVD packs, GENRE Documentary AWARDS/SELECTIONS and a year’s subscription to Film Ink magazine AWARDS/SELECTIONS Sundance Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection; Mendocino Film Festival 2007 – Best Short Tribeca Film Festival 2008 – Official Selection Best Documentary Documentary; Palm Springs International Short Film Sponsored and selected by the Festival 2007 – Official Selection In the summer of 2006, while the football Documentary Australia Foundation. world’s attention was focused on Germany, The lucky winner will receive a $2, 500 cash prize A San Francisco church provides refuge for thousands of players around the globe were and a year’s subscription to Film Ink magazine. the city’s homeless from the cold night and training hard and competing to be part of dangerous streets. As row after row of tired another world cup… The Homeless World Cup. Community Prophets Award and troubled men and women go to sleep Sponsored by Community Prophets, this award goes to in the pews, their voices provide insight into It began in 2001 as a wild idea to give homeless the film that best demonstrates a creative process that the events that led them here. A poignant people a chance to change their lives through empowers young people and marginalized communities. and poetic glimpse into the circumstances an international street soccer competition. Five The lucky winner will receive a $500 cash prize, surrounding homelessness. years later, the annual Homeless World Cup is a $250 voucher for access to equipment and/or an internationally recognized sporting event. courses at Open Channel, a personalised award designed by Indigenous Australian artists, a 500 homeless players from 48 nations would Crumpler Karachi bag and a year’s subscription ultimately be selected to represent their to Film Ink magazine. respective countries in Cape Town, South Africa –– coming from such disparate parts of the Reel Change Competition – Best Local Entry world as war-torn Afghanistan, the slums of Kenya, the drug rehab clinics of Dublin, and the The lucky winner will receive a $500 cash prize streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. sponsored by Make Poverty History; membership

21st May, 2008 to the Australian Directors Guild, a Crumpler JOB | MPH Sticker > Long COLOUR | Black DIMENSIONS | W - 297mm H - 60mm SIZE | 600 dpi PDF vers print Karachi Outpost bag, Madman DVD packs and a Win or lose, it would be the journey PROGRAM | CS2 Illustrator of a lifetime… If any there are issues with printing please contact, Liza on 0407 713 363. year’s subscription to Film Ink magazine Reel Change Competition – Best International Entry The lucky winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, Madman DVD packs and a year’s subscription to CLOSING NIGHT Documentary Australia foundation Film Ink magazine 7.30pm for light refreshments. Screening will commence at 8pm Sun 23 Nov 2008, Capitol Theatre

44 FILM FILM 45 HRAFF’s Industry Forums are about up-skilling, networking, and knowledge transfer. Learn how to develop your idea or project to make entertaining films that speak to social conscience. The Industry Forums are also for human rights organisations wanting to learn about the power of new media to catalyse social change, and for members of the general public interested in current industry issues.

Featuring key industry figures, including Andrew Apostola (Portable Film Festival), and Steve Warne (Film VIC) as well representatives from the Australian Director's Guild, Australian Documentary Foundation, OPEN Channel, Screen Australia, SBS, OXFAM and more. STORY TELLING FILMMAKING AS NEW

INDUSTRY FORUMS AND THE ‘HUMAN A HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS IN RIGHTS FILM’ TOOL FILMMAKING AND HUMAN RIGHTS CAMERA The HRAFF 3.00pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, 5.00pm Sat 22 Nov 2008, 3.00pm Sun 23 Nov 2008, forums are Kino Cinemas Kino Cinemas Kino Cinemas open to all with entry Thought ‘human rights Weapons of social Life moves. Change never by gold coin films’ were all boring construction? You betcha. Film stops. This applies to the documentaries? Think again. and new media are amongst film industry as equally as ACTION HUBS donation. Come along and hear from the most powerful of means any other. Come and hear directors, producers and to break down barriers and industry leaders talk trends, screenwriters about their open society’s eyes to new opportunities, threats and unexpected encounters with worlds of possibility. Come to challenges, and about how human rights on the way this forum and learn about the these will affect filmmakers Set in the foyer of the Kino cinemas in to fulfilling their narrative instrumentality of film, how like you. A must for those Collins place, action hubs are an interactive, projects. Learn that there is no you too can create projects wanting to make films with creative and engaging marketplace that will give such thing as a ‘human rights’ that inspire, activate and social purpose and those you the tools to be part of the change you want film, and that in fact human enliven, and how industry can interested in harnessing to see in the world! rights can be found in the help you do it. culture to create works of strangest places.. impact and relevance. Be a part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2008, find out what is happening in your industry, taste and experience offerings from the film, art and human rights cultures and see how they interact. HUMAN RIGHTS: HUMAN RIGHTS BITE INTO WHAT THE HELL AND SPORT RIGHTS: FOOD AND Participating organisations include: ARE THEY? HUMAN RIGHTS Caritas 3.00pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, 4.30pm Sat 15 Nov 2008, 3.00pm Sun 16 Nov 2008, Make poverty history Kino Cinemas Kino Cinemas Kino Cinemas Liberty victoria Video Australasia Heard a lot about the phrase In an Olympic year, this Surely something as simple as Amnesty international “human rights” but not favourite of topics is back on eating doesn’t have anything Australian writer's guild sure what it actually means? the scorecard. But just how to do with human rights? Think Homeless world cup Think it sounds complicated, do the two interact? Can again – whether dining or vaguely legal or confined decisions in a sporting context devouring, the consumption Swing by the action hubs at kino cinemas, to Amnesty International impact on broader society, of food and its preceding 45 Collins St throughout the festival from press releases? Come along and what does the sporting production are intimately 13–23 Nov. COMMUNITY FORUMS to this fun and informative discourse contribute to the linked to rights issues. Come 21st May, 2008 JOB | MPH Sticker > Long session where Ben Schokman palladium of human rights? to this delicious exploration of ForCOLOUR more | Black information contact [email protected] DIMENSIONS | W - 297mm H - 60mm (Lawyer, Human Rights Leading the team to the the topic, hosted by renowned orSIZE visit | 600 dpi PDF versthe print website http://www.hraff.org.au PROGRAM | CS2 Illustrator

The HRAFF Law Resource Centre) will middle will be award-winning Melbourne food blogger If any there are issues with printing please contact, Liza on 0407 713 363. forums are explain that human rights are journalist Martin Flanagan, Claire Davie, as we explore open to all actually very commonplace, ably supported by Australian issues of education, training with entry ordinary things, and Priyanga Homeless World Cup coach and personal responsibility by gold coin Hettiarchi (Governance, Dept. George Halkias, nephew of with Shanaka Fernando donation. of Premier and Cabinet) will 1968 Mexico City Olympic (‘Lental as Anything’ founder), let you know which of these Games medallist Peter and food security, fair trade rights are protected under Norman, Matt Norman, and and equity with Jeff Atkinson Victorian law and what this a further sporting superstar to (Oxfam Australia), with a means for you. step up off the bench. further appetizing guest to be revealed before the event. 46 FILM FILM 47 Image courtesy of Ricky Sullivan, Powerhouse + Doch Panorama, Brisbane HRAFF SEEDS HRAFF is growing in cities all over Australia. Visit www.hraff.org.au for more information and updates on programs.

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HRAFF ACT Film Festival Art is Dates: Thursday 20 - 22 November, 2008 Venue: Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Building 54c, Garran Road, Canberra eternal. New South Wales Western Australia The Big Issue co-presents HRAFF NSW Art Exhibition HRAFF WA Film Festival Dates: Saturday 1 November 2008 Dates: Friday 28 - Saturday 29 November 2008 Venue: Tap Gallery Level 1, 271 Palmer Street, Venue: Film and Television Institute, 92 Adelaide Darlinghurst, Sydney Terrace, Fremantle

Queensland HRAFF NSW Film Festival Dates: Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 December 2008 Faculty of Arts Graduate Programs Brisbane Powerhouse co-presents Venue: Chauvel Cinema, Cnr Oxford Street and HRAFF QLD Film Festival Oatley Road, Paddington, Sydney Venue: Brisbane Powerhouse, 119 Lamington Th e Faculty of Arts off ers coursework programs that enhance your career potential through a unique blend Street, New Farm, Brisbane Big Issue Fundraiser of theory and practice. You will gain access to valuable industry links through seminars and internships. Dates: Friday 6 - Saturday 7 March 2009 Masters programs are available in a number of discipline areas across the humanities, social sciences HRAFF joins the Big Issue team to support their fundraiser and their screening of ‘Kickin’ It’. and creative arts, including: Help support the Australian Homeless World Cup • Art Curatorship • Arts Management on Wednesday 12th November. • Cinema Management • Cultural Materials Conservation Venue is yet to be confirmed so keep your eyes peeled to the web for updates! • Global Media Communications

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awg-hrfest.indd 1 3/10/2008 2:43:27 PM ALEX MARTINIS ROE Feminism can no longer be used as a label to describe the political movement of a universal group called ‘women’. Uniting women without particular regard to race, class and sexual preference performs similar exclusionary practices as the ideological power structures that feminism seeks to undermine. However, despite the necessary abandonment of a universal feminism, it continues as an invaluable body of research, strategy and action with a ABOVE- CULTURE KITCHEN (GEMBEL & TARING PADI), well-recognised trajectory of addressing the Recovering Lines Above Borders, 2008, Lino Print on paper (detail) sexual politics at play in any given context, LONG in an ongoing fight against discrimination. Discrimination in the Australian arts industry MARCH CHEN can be as obvious as the disproportionate PROJECT QIULIN numbers of successful male artists to the numbers of practicing female artists, and as Initiated in 1999, and begun in Chen Qiulin is a young female Chinese artist currently based in subtle as the way that a gallery visitor looks at 2002, the Long March Project is a Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Much of her work addresses a work of art. Over the last few years, making social situations of upheaval, both physical and psychological, CULTURE performance based video installations complex, multi-platform, international particularly concerning ideas of displacement and trauma of independent arts organisation and KITCHEN has been driven by political commitment. memory. Chen Qiulin spent her childhood in Wanzhou City, (GEMBEL & Self-reflexively engaging all aspects of an ongoing art project, that can be which was partially submerged by the construction of the Three TARING PADI) artwork’s production and presentation, is a simultaneously considered a curatorial Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in 2006, which displaced more framework within which Alex interrogates lab; a publishing house; an artistic than one million people. Through installation, performance, ‘Recovering Lives Across Borders’ is a rhetoric regarding the representation photography and video montages of surreal landscapes collaborative project between artists from of the feminine body. The need for this collection; a meeting place; a gallery and ghostly, ephemeral figures, she reacts to China's urban space; a consultancy; a commissioning Australia, Indonesia and East Timor. The commitment comes from a consciousness of development and its rapidly altering social landscape. notion of understanding was at the core the very real potential for artistic performance and production atelier; artistic of the process. Before the first pencil was to impact upon audiences’ desiring patterns. facilitator; and author. YANG sharpened, there were extensive discussions From a critical distance, all of these SHAOBIN about what concerned the artists. Each artist avenues of production aim to came to the project with different concerns, The fundamental anchor to Yang Shaobin's practice (born in cultural perspectives and ideas, yet all had provocatively construct, and in turn similar goals in mind. As artists, we wanted to renew, presumed action and thinking Tangshan, Hebei Province) has been his awareness of a social consciousness. Rising to international prominence in the late work together, and through discussion come concerning ‘contemporary art’. up with collective solutions and approaches BELOW- ALEX MARTINIS ROE 1990s, early explorations engaged with the corporeal individual Up and Down, 2006, Video projection with viewing ladder in society and collective memory. Later work entered the political to the artwork in the same way that we The Long March Project is a realm, where familiar faces of Western, Soviet and Middle Eastern expect governments should be able to do leaders haunt the surface amid scenes from media reports the same. Culture Kitchen see the project as constantly changing mobile an exercise in inter-culturality, which places a entity that seeks to challenge and which are interspersed with Yang's violent abstractions. Born to a coal-mining family, Yang Shaobin has recently turned his strong emphasis on interaction, exchange of move beyond fixed definitions attention to the coal-mining industry in China. Collaborating with ideas and the quest for understanding, and of artistic practice between local the Long March Project, he has delved into the underground is a way out of the ‘multicultural’ impasse. It and international, and individual world of human exploitation, labour conditions and the physical goes beyond seeing pluralist cultures and repercussions suffered by China's industrial reforms. difference, and begins to look at a future of and collective, in the creation sharing similarities and forging understanding. of new forms of production and It is also distinct from arguments made consumption that are allowed and JIANG around integration and community cohesion, encouraged to interact. ZHI in arguing for a much more productive Jiang Zhi was born in Yuanjiang, Hunan, China and graduated engagement between cultures. from China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 1995. Jiang This implies mutual learning and growth Zhi’s works are inspired by the social reality of China today. and a process of inquiry. Recovering Lives ABOVE LEFT- YANG Shaobin His works articulate an introspective, at times historical, Across Borders confronts viewers with issues 800 Meters Under: insight into the consequences and tribulations of urban life such as poverty, environmental degradation, Aboveground/Underground in a constant state of transformation. Particularly influenced the depletion of resources, affluence and 2006 video still (detail) by the effect and meaning of light and shadow, absence ignorance ––the ugly realities which underpin ABOVE RIGHT- CHEN Qiulin and presence, Jiang Zhi’s works often provide a humorous the economies of all three nations, although Color lines 2006 video perspective on ideas of flux in the contemporary human affect their citizens very differently. condition. He currently lives and works in Beijing. 10 ART ART 11 LEFT- Christian FIONA RICHARD PANTHER Thompson & Helen JACK BELL Johnson, MHUL Fiona Jack works across many Whether paintings, Panther is a performance collaboration workshop Outcome, media to investigate the performances, videos or between Madeleine Hodge and Sarah 2007, Mixed media conceptual, geographical and T-shirts, Richard Bell’s works Rodigari. Over the past four years Panther (detail) political definitions of shared of protest confront and has created works across documentary, space ––a space that includes unsettle common ideas about performance, improvisation, video and site BOTTOM- Freedom linguistic, physical, social and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal based intervention. Through their work Panther Burmese Artists, historical contexts. In a recent Australians’ relationship to seeks to create an ongoing cultural dialogue Freedom & Floating collaborative project with the each other, to this country’s and social critique. The idea of happiness is Lives of Voiceless, Tangata Whenua of Tamaki - history and to art itself. a cultural obsession. In Western societies it 2008, Installation Ngati Whatua o Orakei (the His paintings play with the has become a huge commodity. In America (detail) local Maori of Auckland) a practice of appropriation, it’s a democratic right. In the UK, they are reconstructed palisade fence often miming the pop art considering a Gross Happiness Index to stand RIGHT- PVI along Auckland’s waterfront styles of Roy Lichtenstein and along side the GDP. In wealthy countries with Collective, Resist, recalled the fence that was Jasper Johns or the paint excellent living standards, the question is being October 2006, Video built in 1943 to protect the drips of Jackson Pollock, while asked why are our people who supposedly Diptych (detail) Pa (Maori village) from the including texts that complicate ‘have it all’ more miserable then those who encroaching urbanization the way we think about racism don’t? Exercises in Happiness calls into and persecution. Jack has and race politics in Australia. question our understanding of happiness and also installed several site Aboriginal Art - it’s a white its meaning and importance in relation to basic specific painting installations thing is one of the artist’s rights, freedom and equality. HELEN JOHNSON internationally that locate their famous ‘theorems’ in which & CHRISTIAN process and critique within he accuses the contemporary THOMPSON: PVI COLLECTIVE Situationist thinking, and art world of manipulating MHUL are based on local research, and exploiting Aboriginal art. collaboration and intervention Scratch an Aussie is a new The term MHUL is a Bidjara Founded in 1998, PVI to generate their form. video installation in which word from central Queensland Collective are an independent stereotypical Australians are meaning ‘idea’ or ‘concept’. artist collective based in psychoanalyzed by the artist, In 2007 the MHUL Perth, Western Australia. who charades as a black conversations program, With a background in visual Sigmund Freud. organised by Christian arts, film theory, new media, Thompson for ACMI, hosted performance, psychology FREEDOM BURMESE a workshop based around the and live art, the group have a ARTISTS possibilities of poster-making long standing pre-occupation as a cheap and effective way with producing artwork that Freedom of expression can often lead to a to convey ideas. The posters investigates issues of privacy, life sentence in prison or a lengthy sentence included in Collective surveillance and its impact with hard labour under the brutal, oppressive Conscience are the product on social codes of behaviour and violent Burmese regime. A word, a line of a one-day workshop in the public realm. Resist or a scratch can lead to arrest, imprisonment, facilitated by Melbourne aimed to test the notion of jail, torture or death of an artist. The voice of artists Helen Johnson and conflict in Chile by inviting Burmese has been silenced since 8-8-88. Since Christian Thompson with a seven citizens to step forward then, Burma has accelerated itself into the group of emerging indigenous and go head-to-head with 164th place out of 169 in the world in restriction artists from across Australia. PVI in one of seven public of ‘freedom of expression’. The politics of personal tug of war contests. Armed One artist, U Win Tin, born in 1929, now and cultural identity were with a 20 metre length of 79 years old, is the world’s longest serving strong themes for all the rope and seven pertinent ‘prisoner of conscience’ who has spent one artists involved. The posters issues to solve, the work was fourth of his life in prison since 1989, often in TOP- Panther, were produced on a small performed directly outside solitary confinement. Restriction of art supplies, If you talk, we’ll scale, from which multiple Chile’s notorious seat of severe poverty, aggressive censorship, brutal listen, 2008, DVD enlarged copies were made power and site of dictator crack down, absence of support, training, (detail) so that each artist could keep August Pinochet’s violent funding or an accessible gallery system make documentation of every poster coup in 1973, the Presidential a Burmese artist’s life an impossible struggle. LEFT- Fiona Jack, produced. Participating artists Palace. Resist was produced Nonetheless, through their art they reflect on Palisade, 2008, include Moses Gibson (Fitzroy during the South Project’s human rights violations inside Burma and the Digital Photographic Crossing, WA), Nicole Smythe Santiago gathering in 2006 situation of Burmese under the brutal regime. Print (detail) (Warburton, WA), Kresna and was part of a larger They reflect lives, dreams, sufferings, struggles, Cameron (Warburton, WA), body of work called ‘the beliefs, hopes and empower the voice of the RIGHT- Richard Bell, Chad Creighton (Perth, WA) future belongs to crowds’ powerless. Their art is a reflection of the floating Scratch an Aussie, and Nicole Foreshew (Sydney, series which investigated the lives of Burmese artists and their fight for 2008, DVD (detail) NSW). relevance of people power in freedom in Burma. contemporary society. 8 ART ART 9 It is 60 years since the UN in the aftermath FESTIVAL PATRON of World War II adopted the Universal STATEMENT OF Declaration of Human Rights which declared SUPPORT that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5 (1948).

Yet today we seem no closer to achieving that goal. Appalling abuses including torture, slavery and imprisonment without trial are inflicted upon people around the world daily. Media reports of inhumanity are so common that they have become the background noise of our lives, often barely registering in our consciousness. Against this background, artists and filmmakers work to present the world back to us in ways which cut through our defences, compelling us to reflect on our own place and power within society on a global and local level. Byrony Nainby Instead of questioning whether it is possible to generate change, they demonstrate that Senior Curator, through creative engagement, even small acts La Trobe Regional Gallery of resistance and collective action can have an impact, drawing others to their bravery.

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival provides opportunities for us to understand, participate in and respond to the political, social and cultural realities of the world and to reconsider our potential to challenge injustices. I am honoured to be a patron for this event and congratulate the organisers for their vision, intelligence and spirit.

ABOVE- Fiona Jack, Palisade, 2008, Digital Photographic Print (detail)

I am honoured to be a patron for the Human Rights Arts and FESTIVAL PATRON Film Festival. This year’s curatorial premise Collective Conscience STATEMENT OF presents a truly inspiring collection of artworks and projects that SUPPORT engage on multiple levels. The eclectic selection of artists and collectives strongly focuses on the role of experience, participation, collaboration and reflection. Human rights issues should have been a thing of the past, a cliché, but unfortunately it is more often a crude reality that is as real and as close as our door step.

Collective Conscience dares to engage us in a series of considerations/reflections: an act of responsible generosity, an engagement that goes deeper than a simple sense of awareness EXHIBITION DATES AND TIMES or tolerance, and above all the possibility of collective action as a Wed 12 Nov – Sat 30 Nov partnered response and shared ownership. Wed- Sat 12pm-9pm Sun 12pm-6pm I sincerely congratulate the curators on this rich and sensorial @ Carlton Studios, experience that we are so privileged to access under the one 193 Bourke St., Melbourne roof, so aptly complementing the film-screenings and other public programs. The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival presents us Opening night Magdalena Moreno with the rare opportunity to participate and contribute in this inter- Wed 12 Nov 6 – 9.00pm cultural platform. Let’s not forget that collective empowerment Director, The South Project sends a very clear message to human rights violators…

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Collective Conscience considers the recent shift in contemporary artistic practice away from individual experience towards inter-personal activity and social exchange. The artists in Collective Conscience represent, to varying degrees, a re-humanising of artistic practices via an emphasis on participation, dialogue and collaboration. Through a variety of perspectives, approaches and forms, Collective Conscience explores issues of human rights and the power of collective action.

Romy Sedman Andrea Bell Collective Conscience Collective Conscience Curator Curator

Romy Sedman is a curator Andrea Bell is a writer and and arts administrator curator based in Melbourne. based in Melbourne. Romy She is currently completing a completed a Bachelor of Masters in Art Curatorship at Creative Arts / Diploma Arts the University of Melbourne IMAGE: Jiang Zhi,Things Would Turn Nails Once They Happened (2008), Photograph, Lightbox, 150cm x 200cm. Courtesy of the artist and Long March Space, Beijing. (Art History) at Melbourne and works for The South CURATED BY ROMY SEDMAN & ANDREA BELL University, followed by a Project as the Residencies & 12 - 30 NOVEMBER 2008 Graduate Diploma in Arts Network Coordinator. With a OPENING NIGHT WED 12 NOV 6 - 9PM Management. Romy currently special interest in art writing manages the Dianne Tanzer and independent publishing, Richard Bell Gallery in Fitzroy and is Andrea is on the editorial Freedom Burmese Artists Fiona Jack on the West Space ARI committee of un Magazine Culture Kitchen,Taring Padi, Gembel. Programming Committee. (for which she also Magazine MHUL Conversation Program, Christian Thompson, Helen Johnson Alex Martinis Roe Romy has held positions at coordinator) and participated Panther the Australian Commercial in the 2007 Gertrude Emerging PVI Collective Galleries Association, IDEA Writers Program. Andrea is The Long March Project: Chen Qiulin, Yang Shaobin, Jiang Zhi Art Consultants and was also a member of TAC, an art a volunteer at Gertrude project consisting of seven Contemporary Art Spaces. participants who practice This will be Romy’s second and critique collaborative year as Arts Coordinator / processes and frameworks. Curator for the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. 4 ART THE CARLTON STUDIOS ART 5 193 BOURKE ST, MELBOURNE WED - SAT 12 - 9, SUN 12 - 6

HRAFF Art Almanac 185x250.indd 1 11/10/08 5:35:01 PM CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTENTS Festival Patrons The Honourable Justice Michael Graphic and Program Cat Marinis Kirby, AC CMG, Magdalena Designer Moreno, Bryony Nainby, Philip Noyce, Margaret Pomeranz Logo Designer Steven John Tesoriero

HRAFF COMMITTEE Merchandise Designer Wen Chee Credits 2 Festival Directors Naziath Mantoo and Evelyn Tadros Website Designers David Bleja, Aimee Burslem and Curatorial Statements & Biographies 5 Stuart Elith Production Manager and Stuart Richards Festival Patrons 6 Volunteers Coordinator Web Developers William Lay and Cameron Senior

Programming Marty Bortz, Al Cossar, Julia Information Technology Russel Barnes and Julie Pearson Collective Conscience Artists 8 Featherstonehaugh, Julian Developers LaBrooy, Naziath Mantoo, Beck Bek Spies Public Program: Artists Talk & Map 12 Morley, Laura Ogeil, Michelle Box Office Manager Phillips, Evelyn Tadros, Laura Laura Vickers Vines, Claire Wilkinson Secretary Hraff Seeds 17 Tim Bertsch and Yanlo Yue Arts Curators Andrea Bell and Romy Sedman Treasurers Paul Martin Arts Volunteers Coordinator Nuala Bethell Legals Maryam Bell, Angelah Chong, Speakers Coordinator Paul Martin, HRAFF ACT Vafa Ghazavi, John Harvey, Alexis and Community Forums Kalagas, Keara Shaw and Erny Coordinator Wah

Speaker Assistant Julie Fraser HRAFF NSW Tegan Bannister, Eve Gallagher, Ruby Madan, Naomi Potipa, Patrons Anna Martin Jennifer Stanley and Kate Sutton

Action Hubs and Industry Tess Waters HRAFF QLD James English, Dan Foster, Peter Forums McNaughton, Killian Maguire, Danny Peel, Ruth Taylor and Nick !"#$%&'(' Schools Education Program Michelle Cheah, Sian Darling, Valmas )"*+',#("-%%.'/"0+"#%1223 Barbi Joffe, Naziath Mantoo and Rhiannon Robertson HRAFF WA Phil Gardin, Sandra Kimber, Vessal Safaei, Heidi Stewart, Jani Action Hubs Tess Waters Tampi and Sonia Tascon Thanks also to Sponsorship and Funding Naziath Mantoo Festival Partners- Leonie Mudge; Beck Pope

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