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Home  News Events BFC SCREENING - 27.03.2007
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BFC SCREENING - 27.03.2007 |
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Written by Aran Major
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
 Byron Film Club (in association with I.Q inc) Screening Tuesday March 27th @ 7.30pm – 9.15 pm
Venue: Byron Community Centre Tickets at the Door $10 Full Price / $7 Concession
Program - MC Frank Coorey (Shorts preceding the Feature Documentary)
| "Hyper Horns” by Mirko Ritlop 2.13 Mins (2007) A Music Video Clip
Synopsis: 'Hyper Horns' was created musically first on Sony ACID Pro 6.0 using loops. The hyperactive horns, sax, clarinet and flute playing to a beat of 156bpm made me visualize nothing else but speeding chaotic cars in the rat race. I traveled to Sydney to video and photograph the beauty of the Harbour with the hectic rushing around of commuters. Only ants appear to live in such a similar frenetic way, but who really wants to?
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| "Paving Australia" by Larry Larstead 2.10 Mins (2007)
Synopsis: Isn't 'progress' wonderful? One day we’ll have lots of paved roads going everywhere and cars without petrol going nowhere!
Skateboard heaven.
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| "Renewable Resources" by Robert Gammal 19.0 Mins (2007)
Synopsis: The urgent need for us all to wake up to Climate change and the need to choose
leaders who have the courage to make those changes happen for a better world.
Producer Director Animation: Robert Gammal / Female Voice Over: Sarah Lorien
Music by Andy Holm
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"The World I Used to Know" by Greg Saville 10.0 Mins (2007)
Synopsis: An Australian Western set in the future. Crew: Editors: Reg Mulligan & Mick Parker, Camera & Lighting: pietrzak.bruno / Wrangler:Buffalo O’Brien / Armourer: John Fox / Sound: Reg Mulligan /Trains GMR–Bob Farquar Music: Beard / Mark Robson / Dobro: Roger Faynes Hair of the Dog Studio Actors: Private Jake:Cody Maria de la Sol:Gloria Duque / Sherrif Winston-David Quinn / Charly Heu – Haven Tso / Train Engineer –Dave “Buffalo”O’Brien / Morris Drigulli QC –Richard Widders / Voice Over - Josee Hennequin
“Save the Trees” by North Country Flix 4.0 mins (1976) Intro by and Q & A with Paul Joseph The first film made on the North Coast, about the First Action world wide to Save the Trees and the first music sound track recording from Music Farm. Via nonviolent action, expressed in Music and Art, this film set the tone of the Terania Creek Rainforest Campaign as a collective, assertive action which lead to the first successful campaign in the world , which started a movement around the world.
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| Short Feature Documentary “A Place in the Sun” by North Country Flix (1978) 40 mins approx.
Followed by Q & A with Paul Joseph - A film made in 1978 to promote tourism in the Lismore region, & subsequently banned by council and “lost”. The ban was overturned by Lismore Council in December 2006. Now, after nearly 30 years, the film could be considered “quaint and tame”. Launched to the Lismore public on March 16 this year “A Place in the Sun” was made in 1978 (at cost price) for Lismore Council by local film making group, North Country Flix, to assist the then fledgling local tourism industry. When the completed film was shown to a special Lismore Council meeting, Council voted to ban the film & declared “it should never be shown”. Spokesman for North Country Flix, Paul Joseph, said the reason Council gave for the ban, was that the film promoted Lismore as being “too hippy”. “We believe we acted professionally & showed a balanced view of the local culture and interesting qualities that Lismore and the region, known then as Summerland, had to offer,” said Paul Joseph. “This included segments on the Lismore Cup, Septemberfest, the Chamber of Commerce the farming industry & also, controversially, the early Channon Market and Terania Forest.
| | We were bold enough to suggest that rainforest was a valuable tourist asset if left in the ground, at a time when the last of the Big Scrub was about to be logged,” explained Paul.“The film was made the year before the Terania Creek blockade, which resulted in the first successful rescue of rainforest in history. Now the film can be seen as visionary, with rainforest as the biggest attraction in what has become the Rainbow Region. You have to understand that, at that time, the “new settlers” or hippy invaders were directly challenging the local conservative status quo by developing communities & protesting against rainforest destruction,” Paul said. “It was a time of great change in our region & it is pleasing that these strongly held values of care for our community and environment are now qualities that make us all deservedly proud… History shows the importance of the Terania protest and how community action had a direct effect on government policies about environmental protection...Our region has led the world in growing the awareness of rainforest and we can do so much more to assist with many of the problems of climate change and global warming. I hope that people will be inspired by this film, not for the nostalgia, but to understand more about where we come from and gain encouragement to act with hope for the future.” |
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