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. LL.VI LL.VJ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
