From: Haydie Gooder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 10:34 AM
Speaking Strong: Australian Indigenous Struggles on Film
Over the next four weeks, Students for Land Justice and Reconciliation
bring you a festival of great and rarely screened Australian films. Each
night there will be two short films and speakers to introduce the themes of
the evening.
Films include Ningla-A-Na, Australia Daze, Lousy Little Sixpence, Freedom
Ride, Coolbaroo Club, Black Man's Houses, Still you Keep Asking Asking...,
Whiteys Like Us
When: Thursday nights - 23 September, 30 September, 7 October, 14 October
Where: Cinemedia Treasury Theatre (formally State Film Theatre)
Cost: $8 /$5
Parking :Little Collins St $4
The Programme.......
Thursday 23 September: Opening Night: The 2000 Olympics:A World Stage...
Ningla A-Na
Australia Daze
Two classic films documenting historic moments in Aboriginal activism that
have captured world wide media attention; the 1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy
and the 1988 protests set amid white Australia's Bicentennary celebration.
Thursday 30 September: 20th Century Resistance
Lousy Little Sixpence
Freedom Rides
Two films which provide astounding insights into Koori experience this
century, ranging from mission life pre WW2 to life under unofficial
apardheid in counrty NSW in the 1960's.
Thursday 7 October: Identity and Community
Coolbaroo Club
Black Man's Houses
This night's films examine the vital role of community in Aboriginal
people's right to control their own affairs, and in their constant struggle
to define their identity within a glut of 'white' stereotypes.
Thursday 14 October: Closing Night : Black Voives, White Voices and
Reconciliation?
Still You Keep Asking,Asking...
Whiteys Like Us
Ending the festival with one of the highlight documentaries of this years
Melbourne International Film Festival, this final night presents us with a
challenging contrast in black and white attitudes that will pose some hard
questions to white viewers.
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