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The Power of the Documentary Film Festival Curated by John Pilger Download The MCA in partnership with Riverside Theatres present THE POWER OF THE DOCUMENTARY: BREAKING THE SILENCE Sydney, 18 October 2018] The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in partnership with Riverside Theatres present The Power of the Documentary: Breaking the Silence, a film festival curated by Emmy and BAFTA award- winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and author, John Pilger. Pilger has selected 26 landmark documentaries from the past 70 years to be screened at both Riverside Theatres and the MCA in November and December. Pilger is renowned for his independent investigative journalism giving a ‘voice to the voiceless’. The documentaries chosen made significant impact on audiences shaping the way we understand and respond to global issues such as war and conflict, civil rights and propaganda. The program features a rare retrospective of some of Pilger’s ground-breaking work including his very first documentary The Quiet Mutiny (1970), an expose on American troop insurrections in Vietnam; The War You Don’t See (2010), a look at the role and responsibilities of media reporting on war; and Utopia (2013), an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present. Additional program highlights include Harvest of Shame (1960), demonstrating a form of slavery existed in the United State in the mid-20th Century; Hearts and Minds (1974), questioning the US invasion of Indo-China; Half Life (1986), a look at the human consequences of the United States’ hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands; That Sugar Film (2014), one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar; and Journey into Hell (2015), a searing report of those who traffic the fleeing Rohingya to Thailand. The Festival will also feature introductions with special guest speakers including Mark Davis, Damon Gameau, Curtis Levy, Robert Love and Alec Morgan. Pilger will open the Festival with a keynote address on the importance of critical thinking and documentary filmmaking. Pilger said, “Documentaries that go against the received wisdom are becoming an endangered species, at a time when we need them perhaps more than ever. With the current information onslaught, the critical differences between fact and fiction are blurred. Documentary films are a powerful way to make sense of these competing voices and ideas.” The Power of the Documentary: Breaking the Silence runs in conjunction with the MCA’s major summer exhibition David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018, as part of the Sydney International Art Series. The MCA in partnership with Riverside Theatres present THE POWER OF THE DOCUMENTARY: BREAKING THE SILENCE The Power of the Documentary: Breaking the Silence When: Wed 28 Nov – Sun 9 Dec Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 140 George St, The Rocks & Riverside Theatres, corner of Church & Market Streets, Parramatta. Ticket info: Opening and Closing events | Adults $40 | Concession $32 Single sessions | Adult $15 | Concession $12 Festival Four Pack $45 | Festival Pass $99 (excludes opening and closing events) A $1.65 transaction fee applies Tickets are now on sale and the full program can be found here. Hi-res images can be downloaded here. For all media enquiries please contact Stephanie Pirrie on E: [email protected] E: 0430 517 722 ABOUT JOHN PILGER John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney. In his 20s, Pilger became chief foreign correspondent for London’s Daily Mirror, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. He became the youngest journalist to receive Britain’s highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year. Moving to the United States, Pilger reported the upheavals there in the late 1960s and 1970s. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, he marched with America’s poor from Alabama to Washington; and was in the same room when presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. Pilger’s work in South East Asia produced an iconic issue of the London Mirror, devoted almost entirely to his world exclusive dispatches from Cambodia in the aftermath of Pol Pot’s reign. The combined impact of his Mirror reports and his subsequent 1979 documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia raised almost $50 million for the people of that stricken country. Similarly, his 1994 documentary Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy dispatches report from East Timor, helped galvanise support for the East Timorese, then occupied by Indonesia. Pilger’s numerous documentaries on Australia, notably The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1983), The Last Dream: Other People’s Wars (1988), Welcome to Australia (1999) and Utopia (2013) all celebrated and revealed the country’s ‘forgotten past’, in particular its Indigenous past and present. Pilger has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, as well as numerous US and European awards including the Royal Television Society’s Best Documentary. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for ‘30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights’ and in 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize..
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