Walkabout Film Festival 2015 Presented by Artgaze lab Inc & Full Throttle Theatre Company
From 4.30pm, Sunday 31 May 2015 At The Old Courthouse, Cnr Stokes & Sturt St, Townsville CBD Entry: $8 regular | $5 concession | $12 family (2 adults + 2 kids)
4.30pm - Doors open, with refreshments &
food available for purchase, live performance.
6pm - Welcome to country & introduction to film programme with hosts Merwez Whaleboat & Deeveena Murphy.
The Burnt Cork
6.15pm - Screenings commence. 7pm - Interval 7.15pm - Feature film MABO
TRUE GODS
Writer & Director: Alexandra Edmonson. Starring: Jack Campbell, Kyas Sherriff, Amber McMahon. Producer: Cassie Kelly. In 1950s rural Australia, a man faces losing everything when love, fear, duty & shame collide, following the birth of his illegitimate child. Courtesy of ThirdHalf Productions.
(2014) 15 min | Rated PG Director: Warwick Thornton. Actors: Miranda Tapsell & Kiarrah-Jayde Buzzacott. Set against a backdrop of the Australian wilderness, this is an animistic meditation on the relationship between motherhood, the earth, ancestry & spirit. Courtesy of Pinball London Films.
NANA
MABO
(2010) 9 min | Rated PG
(2007) 5 min | Rated PG
Director: Warwick Thornton. This short film is a humorous portrait of an all-rounder told from the perspective of her adoring granddaughter (Kiara Gibson) who loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) & follows her as she hunts, sells art, & patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Scarlett Pictures. Courtesy of Black Screen NFSA.
(2012) 110mins | Rated PG Director: Rachel Perkins. Writer: Sue Smith. Producer: Darren Dale. Starring: Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman. Tells the story, of one of Australia’s national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius. Courtesy of Black Screen NFSA.
artgazemagazine.com artgaze@gmail.com 0416 980 323 We acknowledge the assistance of Black Screen, an initiative of the National Film & Sound Archive, and the Community Micro-Grants Program, an initiative of Townsville City Council.