Curated Program
Opening Night 17 August 2011
Cinema 2
7.15pm – 9.30pm
Love etc
2010, Documentary, 94mins, USA
Director: Jill Andresevic
Producers: Jill Andresevic, Chiemi Karasawa, Jeffrey Stewart
LOVE ETC. is a witty, poignant and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. Young, old, gay, straight – everyone has experienced love – and the joy and frustration that come with it. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage, newlyweds to a recent divorcee, LOVE ETC. documents the intimate journeys of engaging characters aged 18 - 89 who reflect the city’s diversity, and takes an honest look at life's most challenging pursuit.
Thursday 18 August 2011
Youth Documentaries Program 3
Cinema 2
1.15pm – 1.55pm
This session features short films from Afghanistan and Japan made as part of our international outreach program. It also features the documentary Miss South Sudan.
Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul
2010, Documentary, 10 mins, Afghanistan
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Producer: Louis Figgis, Orlando von Einsiedel
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautiful, verite style, film about the lives of young skateboarders from Afghanistan. The Skateistan project is Afghanistan's first co-educational skateboarding school.
In a country with innumerable problems, Skateistan represents an oasis where children can be children and build the kinds of cross-cultural relationships that Afghanistan needs for future stability. Intimate and challenging in its portrayal of children's stories and stunningly shot, Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a touching ray of light from a country only ever in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Murza and the Chicken
2011, Comedy, 4 mins, Afghanistan
Dir: Sulaiman Mohammed, aged 13
Skateistan, Kabul
Murza is a great man, but as with all great men, he has a big problem to solve - his mother's chicken!
Miss South Sudan Australia
2011, Documentary, 28min, Australia
Dir: Shannon Owen
Prod: Polly Staniford, Tony Ayres, Michael McMahon (Matchbox Pictures)
Miss South Sudan Australia is a captivating story of how a group of young people from a community devastated by civil war and tribal conflict are attempting to overcome a violent legacy and forge a new identity in Australia. By putting on a beauty pagent, they are creating a platform for young Sudanese people to celebrate their beauty and share their stories, talents and culture with the wider Australian community. It is a story of optimisim and resilience, of chaos and potiential catastrophe at every turn, but more than anything else, of the indomitable life force of a generation of young South Sudanese determined to free themselves of the shackles of the past.
Cinema 2
7.00pm – 9.30pm
Screening and Q & A
I am Eleven
2011, Documentary, 90 mins, Australia
Director & Producer: Genevieve Bailey
I am Eleven is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that animate their lives.
In conversation with director Genevieve Bailey: Join documentary filmmaker Genevieve Bailey as she discussed the complexity of working on a multi-lingual project with young people in fifteen countries. As much as it is a story about them, it is a story with them, of what it is like to be eleven today.
Saturday Night 19 August 2011
Cinema 1
7.00pm – 9.00pm
Amal
Drama, 101 mins, India
Director: Richie Mehta
Producer: Steven Bray, David Miller
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.
Ticketing Information:
All session are held at Palace Brighton Bay, 294 Bay Street, Brighton.
For enquiries about ticketing and bookings please call Palace Brighton Bay on 9596 3590.