23 July 2015, 05:30 am
STORIES FROM AUSTRALIA – A FESTIVAL OF AWARD WINNING FILMS: 23 TO 25 JULY 2015
Programme Type
Festivals
A festival of eight exceptional documentary films from Australia organised in collaboration with The Walkley Foundation. Two of the filmmakers will be present to personally present their films. The festival includes a discussion
 
At 18:30
Introduction
Ms. Liz Jackson, senior journalist and former Member, The Walkley Foundation
 
Mary Meets Mohammad (80 min; 2013; dvd; English)
Directors: Heather Kirkpatrick and Kristy Dowsing
 
Multiple award winner including 2014 Special Award United Nations Media Peace Prize; 2014 MIA Award for Outstanding Coverage of Migration in the Media; 2014 Tasmania Media Award for Best Feature, Doc. Current Affairs; Winner 2013 Tasmania Outstanding Achiever Award
 
A timely and relevant story told with great sensitivity and subtlety, the film follows the arrival of Tasmania’s first detention centre through the eyes of local Christian woman and knitting club member Mary and Muslim Afghan Hazara, asylum seeker Mohammad, who is detained inside the centre
 
At 20:00
Code of Silence (56 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directors:  Dan Goldberg and Danny Ben Moshe, Mint Pictures & Identity Films/ABC TV
 
Winner of the 2014 Walkley Documentary Award
 
Code of Silence is the story of a fight for an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse at an Orthodox Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne. As the case against the abusers continues to make news, the documentary is timely and ground-breaking