Tag Archive for ‘Australia’
5th Oceania Television Conference Report
For the 5th consecutive year the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival hosted the Pacific Television Conference, a gathering organised with the support of the Oceania Football Confederation.
This edition was of particular importance, first of all because of the high level of participation registered this year: 80 % of the region’s forces were present at this [...]
The Art of Pitching
The stage fright was visible on the faces of the ten directors, scriptwriters and producers who had come to defend their ‘baby’ this Thursday afternoon at FIFO, during the international pitch session. ‘A Pitch’? To shed light upon it: a pitch is the oral presentation of a film project or scenario sometimes with a preview [...]
LE FRENCH MAYOR
Australie – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Damien Ordas
Production : RFO NC
Version française
Bertrand Cadart is the only French mayor in Australia. He has carried out his functions as 1st Magistrate since 2007 in the Glamorgan Springs Bay region on the east coast of Tasmania: a municipality which is 160km long comprising 6 districts.
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EYE FOR ARCHITECTURE
Australie – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Ingleton Sally
Production : 360 Degree Films
Version anglaise
Eye for Architecture journeys into the world of cutting-edge architecture in Australia and Asia through the lens of the renowned architectural photographer John Gollings. A Gollings photograph can turn an ordinary building into art, helping it get published or win an award. Join Gollings on [...]
FIRST AUSTRALIANS : THEY HAVE COME TO STAY
Australie – 2008 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Rachel Perkins
Production : Blackfella Films
Version anglaise
First Australian chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspectives of its first people. First Australian explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by world’s greatest empire.
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A GOOD MAN
Australie – 2009 – 79 mn
Réalisateur : Safina Uberoi
Production : Divana Films
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
A good man tells the story of an Australian farmer Chris Rohrlach, his quadriplegic wife, their newborn baby and Chris’s plans to open a brothel in a small country town.
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ANATOMY OF A MASSACRE
Australie – 2009 – 54 mn
Réalisateur : Andrew Sully
Production : Cordell Jigsaw Productions
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
Anatomy of a Massacre follows expert forensic teams from Australia as they exhume the mass graves of an estimated 200 people who were shot and killed by the Indonesian military during an independence march in East Timor in 1991. The findings of [...]
THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
Australie – 2009 – 52 mn
Réalisateur : Gordon Eliott
Production : Follow Productions
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
For the first time on film the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children of Molong, NSW is told in their own voices. This remarkable story is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an idea that went terribly [...]
CONTACT
Australie – 2009 – 78 mn
Réalisateur : Bentley Dean & Martin Butler
Production : Contact Film
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
In 1964 Yuwali was 17 years old and her mob, 20 women and children, were the last aboriginal people living traditionally, without any knowledge of modern Australia. Patrol officers were sent to evacuate their desert home, ahead of rocket tests. [...]
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF WILLIAM BUCKLEY
Australie – 2009 – 55 mn
Réalisateur : Malcolm Mcdonald
Production : December Films
Version anglaise sous-titrée en français
On a stifling hot Christmas night in 1803 William Buckley, a young English convict, escaped from the doomed first settlement of Port Phillip Bay in South Eastern Australia. He risked his life in the unknown and hostile Australian wilderness rather than surrender his [...]
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