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Press Kit Here in association with Kalejdoskop Film, Warsaw PRESS KIT “Sophia’s mother’s story is AMAZING ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF. She will touch people all over the world with this film.” BRUCE BERESFORD www.oncemymother.com.au facebook.com/oncemymother 73 min Feature Documentary BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST FEATURE AUDIENCE AWARD DOCUMENTARY Adelaide Film Festival NOMINATION AACTA Awards 57 min TV Version BEST FILM BEST SOUND AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINATION Canberra International AACTA Awards Film Festival BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST FEATURE BIOGRAPHY “A fine work. DOCUMENTARY ATOM Awards It touches a profound truth.” Australian Directors Guild Awards PETER WEIR “One of the most powerful and moving films I’ve ever seen. An exquisitely poignant journey of reconciliation.” BOB CONNOLLY + DVD with extras + Study Guide free download WRITER & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR SOPHIA TURKIEWICZ PRODUCER ROD FREEDMAN PRODUCER BOB CONNOLLY JANUSZ & KAMIL SKALKOWSKI EDITOR DENISE HASLEM COMPOSER CEZARY SKUBISZEWSKI PRODUCED PRINCIPAL BY CHANGE FOCUS MEDIA IN ASSOCIATION WITH KALEJDOSKOP FILM AND THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION INVESTOR SCREEN AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN FUNDING AUSPICED BY KRESY SIBERIA FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTOR RONIN FILMS WWW.ONCEMYMOTHER.COM 'An epic story of survival told against a backdrop of war and its aftermath. With consummate skill, Sophia Turkiewicz weaves the personal with the historical, giving depth and meaning to both.' Peter Weir ‘It is inspiring to see something made with passion directly from the heart. Sophia’s mother's story is amazing almost beyond belief & the interweaving of her saga with Sophia’s own story very deft, revealing & fascinating. It's a rare human story told with compassion & insight. You will touch people all over the world with this film.’ Bruce Beresford MEDIA AND SALES CONTACTS Rod Freedman, Producer – [email protected] Tel + 61 2 98103540 Mob +61 (0)418 219053 Sophia Scheding, Director - [email protected] Tel +61 2 9360 6444 Mob +61 (0)417 453772 Principal Investor Produced in association with Australian Distributor Funding auspiced by www.roninfilms.com Kresy Siberia Foundation ONCE MY MOTHER Press Kit © Change Focus Media 2 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AUDIENCE AWARD, Krakow Film Festival, Poland TIME OF HISTORY AWARD, Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING HUMAN VALUES, 26th Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM, Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival, USA BEST DOCUMENTARY, Tiburon International Film Festival, USA BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, St Louis International Film Festival, USA SPECIAL AWARD, Prowincjonalia Film Festival, Poland SPECIAL AWARD Niepokorni, Niezlomni, Wiekleci Film Festival Gdynia, Poland AWARD, International Historical & Military Film Festival, Warsaw PRIZE, Cinema With A Soul, Warsaw AUSTRALIAN AWARDS BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, Australian Directors Guild Awards AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY, Adelaide Film Festival AUDIENCE AWARD BEST FILM, Canberra International Film Festival BEST MUSIC IN DOCUMENTARY, CEZARY SKUBISZEWSKI, Australian Screen Music Awards BEST EDITING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, DENISE HASLEM, Australian Screen Editors Awards BEST DOCUMENTARY BIOGRAPHY, ATOM Awards BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Nomination, AACTA Awards BEST SOUND Nomination, AACTA Awards FINALIST Sydney Film Festival Documentary Competition SHORTLISTED, SCRIPTWRITING & MULTICULTURAL AWARDS NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Australia: Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Launceston & Caloundra Film Festivals International: FIPA, Biarritz, France Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain Krakow Film Festival, Poland ‘Niepokorni, Niezlomni, Wiekleci’ Film Festival, Gdynia, Poland Prowincjonalia Film Festival, Poland 'Generations Remember' Kresy Siberia Conference, Warsaw Cinema With A Soul Festival, Warsaw Edmonton International Film Festival, Canada Festival Internacional de Televisao de Sao Paulo, Brazil 16th Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma des Antipodes, St Tropez France Festival Regards d’Ailleurs, Dreux, France Rhode Island International Film Festival USA Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival USA Kansas International Film Festival USA Polish Film Festival in America, Chicago USA Seattle Polish Film Festival USA Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival USA Los Angeles Polish Film Festival USA Womens History Month Film Festival USA Tiburon International Film Festival USA Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, Russia Biografilm Festival, Bologna Italy Down Under Berlin Film Festival, Germany Batumi International Art House Film Festival, Georgia International Historical & Military Film Festival, Warsaw International Festival of World Cinema, Milan St Louis International Film Festival, USA PolArt 2015 Film Festival, Melbourne Mumbai International Film Festival, India DOCfeed, Netherlands iDocs International Film Festival, Beijing ONCE MY MOTHER Press Kit © Change Focus Media 3 SELECTED MEDIA The Huffington Post, Greg Archer ‘ …compelling …soul-stirring documentary’ Canberra Film Festival Director, Lex Lindsay ‘…a remarkable story… This moving documentary bravely lays bare the complexity of generational displacement, not uncommon in an Australia built upon migration and resettled refugees, while celebrating the enduring bond of family love and its endless power of forgiveness.’ Jason Di Rosso, The Final Cut, ABC Radio National ‘Few films or TV shows have captured the Australian migrant experience with as much depth as a new documentary by Sophia Turkiewicz.’ Adelaide Film Festival Director, Amanda Duthie ‘…a compelling personal journey… a finely crafted story… a universal theme - Mother Love’… At once brave and gentle, this is a study of the way generations are inextricably connected by the thick and complex bonds of love. ABC Arts, Julie Rigg ‘… a magnificent film about heroism, resentment, and forgiveness, a film of raw honesty.’ The Australian, Evan Williams ‘ …a bright jewel’ Sydney Morning Herald, Phillippa Hawker ‘… moving, thoughtful and loving’ Australian Financial Review, John McDonald ‘… exactly the kind of film we need most urgently right now…’ Canberra Times, Chris Wallace: ‘a remarkable documentary… Don’t miss it!’ Canberra Times “…a brave, bittersweet reminiscence… an intensely personal story…” The Age, Jake Wilson: ‘…a settling of accounts…’ Adelaide Advertiser, Penelope Debelle: ‘… betrayal and abandonment…’ Movie Critical, Nicki Newton-Plater ‘Turkiewicz's ode to her mother is as heartbreaking and shocking as it is loving and inspiring. It is a rare experience that opens the doors of an incredible family history and invites all in to witness their pain and triumph.’ ONCE MY MOTHER Press Kit © Change Focus Media 4 MEDIA LINKS The Huffington Post Nov 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-archer/agents-of-change The New York Polish Daily News http://www.dziennik.com/publicystyka/artykul/opowiadalam-te-historie-przez-cale- zycie At The Movies Review 22 July 2014 http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s4031353.htm ABC TV – Anne Maria Nicholson video and article http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/documentary-charts-life-from-gulag-to- adelaide/4932956 Julie Rigg ABC Arts ‘Once My Mother Shows Audiences Crave Intelligent Films http://www.abc.net.au/arts/blog/Julie-Rigg/Film-Festival-success-Once-My-Mother- shows-audiences-crave-intelligent-films/default.htm Gary Maddox, The Good Weekend ‘Finding My Mother’ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/filmmaker-sophia-turkiewiczs- lifetime-journey-making-once-my-mother-20140707-3bh7f.html Phillippa Hawker The Age and Sydney Morning Herald 24 July 2014 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/once-my-mother-review-sophia- turkiewicz-eplores-the-painful-truth-behind-her-own-fiction-20140723-zvz0b.html Sylvia Lawson review ‘Somewhere along the line, we’re implicated’ http://inside.org.au/somewhere-along-the-line-were-implicated/#sthash John McDonald, Australian Financial Review 26 July 2014 http://johnmcdonald.net.au/2014/once-my-mother/ 702ABC Richard Glover - Drive ‘A Mother’s Betrayal’ http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/07/14/4045797.htm?site=sydney Radio National Late Night Live – Philip Adams http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/my-mother2c-my- heroine/5601876 ABC Classic FM – Margaret Throsby - Midday – with Sophia Turkiewicz http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/07/28/4052934.htm Movie Critical Interview http://www.moviecritical.net/2014/07/interview-with-once-my-mother-director.html And the film review: http://www.moviecritical.net/2014/06/once-my-mother-2014.html ONCE MY MOTHER Press Kit © Change Focus Media 5 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM A Polish mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag during World War Two has lasting repercussions for her daughter growing up in post war Australia. LOGLINE Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage as a child and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness. ONE PARA SYNOPSIS When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.
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