We’re now two weeks into training, with the third workshop this Friday digging straight into script-writing. It’s hands-on all the way! The first two workshops opened with sessions on story-telling. The first led by the traditional North Queensland story-teller, Boori Monty Pryor, and writer / Director Meme McDonald. The idea was to provide the team [...]
It was always going to be a challenging day for Melbourne based Hazara. Not only did they have the weather to contend with, but much of the country, and Victoria in particular, would be focused on the AFL Grand Final. Today, the 1st of October, saw the international protest against the targeted killing of Hazaras [...]
It was a chilly Friday morning, scarf wrapped around my neck, as I walked to Redfern Station where I would take a train to Fairfield, rolling through the suburbs that were so familiar to my childhood growing up in Sydney’s outer west. I was on route to Carramar where I would meet with Jasmina from [...]
I was moved by this photo of a young Hazara taken, I’m assuming, some where in central Afghanistan. The photo was titled, “I have decided to learn, no power can stop me.” I’m not sure if that quote comes direct from Latif Kakbar whose site I’d found the photo on, but regardless it sums up [...]
An impossible to imagine number people and plenty of utilities, it seems, are doing video. Children, teachers, sports professionals, activists, workers and the unemployed, radio and print journalists, the police, military and security firms are all swinging cameras some where on planet earth. In many countries now we are videoed in trains, elevators, in our [...]
We all want to be seen and heard and our stories to move and mobilise whether told at a fireside, starlit gathering or huddled around a laptop any where in the world. And, if you’re like me and you’re producing documentaries with anything you can get your hands on, most film festivals and broadcasters, through [...]
Their names – Akbara, Doostizadah, Danesh and Hazara – were alien to my tongue. One or two I could barely pronounce let alone remember, but I will – in time. Their names were spoken, part-thereof, from the rear of their tongues where pockets of air seemed to surround the vowels in a hollow space rendering [...]
Tuesday late morning I’ll have arrived at the Dandenong Community Arts Centre for my first meeting with a small group of young Afghans. I’m now three weeks into a scoping report on a new, revitalised version of Home Lands, with myself leading its creative direction. I’ve done as much background research as I felt I [...]
From 2 – 4 July AGITPROP film festival went live for the first time in Manila, Philippines. Sarawak Gone debuted there. Watch the trailer.
Mid-2007 I left Melbourne for a road trip that was to take me along the east coast of Australia. The idea was to hook up with my old pals, hang out, jam, do some recording. Nice. I’d stumbled upon former members of Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk and No More Bandicoots, even managed to track down former [...]
Sarawak Gone Trailer #1 from Sarawak Gone – The Last Forest Communities. Sarawak Gone to be screened at AGITPROP, International Festival on Peoples’ Struggles, Philippines, June 2011.
Over twenty years ago some of us were introducing modems to NGOs in Southeast Asia, convinced this was the most secure and fastest means to communicate critical information from the region to support groups and the international media. Five years later we started guiding those same groups and many more onto the web, migrating them [...]
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