A film by Curtis Levy. The story of Hephzibah Menuhin is as rich as a novel by Henry James. A child prodigy like her violinist brother, Yehudi, she toured the world giving piano concerts from an early age. In 1938 Hephzibah, aged 18, married Lindsay Nicholas, Australian heir to the Aspro fortune,…
Directed by JOHN DARLING. Produced by JOHN DARLING and SARA DARLING. For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years…
HATRED is an award-winning Australian documentary - a personal journey that asks big social questions about identity and prejudice in the modern world. What makes us who we are and how do we learn to hate? This is an important question for Australians at this time, as the line is tested between the…
DIGITALLY REMASTERED. A series of four films by Australian filmmaker Solrun Hoaas, about the tiny depopulated island of Hatoma, in Okinawa, Southern Japan. A fluent speaker of Japanese, Solrun Hoaas began a series of filming trips to Hatoma Island in the late 1970s, working on 16mm film (using a…
Directed by STEVE THOMAS. Produced by JOHN MOORE. In the late 1940s, Harold Blair emerged as one of the most renowned Australian tenors of the concert hall, at a time when very few Aboriginal people could break through the barriers of the repressive Queensland reserve system. HAROLD takes us on…
A major documentary classic from 1989, HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES offers a passionate global history of nursing, using Australia as a case study but with comparative input from American and British counterparts. It highlights the complex social, political and professional challenges faced by nurses today. <b>The…
DIGITALLY REMASTERED - a film by Solrun Hoaas. 'No Japanese women, or any half castes either, will be admitted to Australia . . . they are simply not wanted and are permanently undesirable,' stated a 1948 instruction from the then Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell. GREEN TEA AND…
THE KEY OF G is an award-winning feature documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. The film follows Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, as he leaves his mother's home to share an apartment with a close-knit group of artists and musicians…
um filme de Lova Nantenaina “Os chineses fazem as coisas, os malgaxes as consertam.” Confrontados com a adversidade e as lutas diárias, a maneira malgaxe de vida é uma mistura de criatividade, música, alegria de viver, fraternidade e, acima de tudo, um sentimento…
a film by Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes. A very fresh approach to the questions of identity, immigration, and integration... The mixing of cultures in French Guiana through the cooking of... a magic dish. BEST ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM - Festival dei Popoli, Firenze (Italy) BEST FILM ON CREOLE…
Documentary of an epic project bringing canoeing to the Amazon. The trials and tribulations of getting canoes there and then canoeing the Alta Madre de Dios river in the Peruvian Amazon. Its a story about effort and life in a isolated part of the world experiencing great change.
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Robert Stone Year: 2007 Duration: 90mins From the director of the fantastic documentary "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" comes this fascinating and utterly gripping examination…
