FILM 1 SPONSORS CONTENTS NATIONAL PARTNERS Sponsors 2 Welcome & Festival Patrons 5 Opening Night 8 COMMUNITY PARTNERS Features, Shorts & Discussion Forums 10 - 43 Closing Night 44 Ticketing, Accessibility & Map 31 INDUSTRY PARTNERS Calendar 32 Documentary Australia foundation Festival Lounge 34 Film Awards 45 Industry & Community Forums 46 Action Hubs 47 MEDIA PARTNERS WE DOVE SPONSORS DON’T RON GRAY HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION MEAN OLIVE BRANCH SUPPORTERS INSIDE ‘COLLINS PLACE’ 45 COLLINS ST, MELBOURNE 3000 THE HOME OF QUALITY CINEMA IN THE HEART OF MELBOURNE TO BRAG (BUT EVERYONE LOVES FILMINK). 2 FILM FILM 3 185x125AD.indd 1 29/9/08 10:35:36 AM Naziath Mantoo and Evelyn Tadros WELCOME HRAFF Directors Welcome to the second Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF)! Starting with a small idea, 2008 has seen HRAFF grow tell your story. make your film. into a nation-wide Festival bringing you twice as many films and artworks from all over the globe. Explore the animated streets of 1968 in Chicago 10, travel behind the walls in North Korea: A Day in the Life, Scratch an Aussie with Richard Bell, and break through boundaries with the multi-platform art lab The Long March. Our program will challenge and inspire you beyond languages and culture. Our Festival is about making a space and community where we can creatively engage and become actively involved with human rights, at home and abroad. HRAFF is more than just food for thought; it is about growing and feeding a brighter future. It is the generosity of our sponsors and patrons, the imagination of our filmmakers and artists, the passion of our volunteers and audiences that has driven the Festival to its second year. We truly thank you all. Enjoy this year’s Festival! Phillip Noyce, Margaret Pomeranz, The Hon. Justice Michael Festival Patron Festival Patron Kirby AC CMG, It is so pleasing to see The issue of international Festival Patron Australia’s first Human Rights and national human rights is I applaud this Festival. training | production advice | hires | networking Arts & Film Festival in its something that goes to the Media and popular culture second year. These days, the core of who we are as human play a huge role in raising use of popular culture to get beings. Any initiative that human rights consciousness. across a political message is reminds us of our obligations They make other people’s not unusual. But this Festival is to advance the cause of injustices our own. not about a political message. human rights has to be a When I was young, the TV It is about a human message. good thing. As a believer in soapie Number 96 did much A message of hope, courage the power of cinema and art more to advance peoples' and triumph against the odds. to alert, provoke and move understanding of gay rights I hope this Festival is both audiences, I applaud the than any court case or openchannel.org.au | 03 8610 9300 thought and action provoking, initiative of HRAFF to use the learned speech. and that it sheds new light on issue of human rights as a human rights issues. focal point for the Festival. Despite the progress made in recent decades, there is shed 4 docklands | open 4 filmmaking Be inspired by what you see, It is a Festival that is much work still to be done to and share this experience with impossible for me to resist promote and protect human the vibrant Festival community. supporting and I do so rights within Australia and wholeheartedly and I urge around the world. I hope the Join me in supporting others to do the same. Festival is a great success – like HRAFF 2008! 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Presenting fi lms, documentaries and eye-opening accounts of struggle, spirit, sacrifi ce and survival from all across the globe. AVAILABLE AVAILABLE NOVEMBER NOVEMBER PLUS MANY MORE... AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH MADMAN In association with the annual Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Madman Entertainment is offering these and other fi lms of importance at a special price for a limited time. Visit www.madman.com.au/hraff for more information. 6 FILM FILM 7 Distributed by Madman Entertainment www.madman.com.au/fi lms OPENING DISCUSSION NIGHT PANEL 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.