Margot Nash
1) Call Me Mum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in the recent past, the AFI award-winning Call Me Mum is a series of interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of mothering, race relations and family in Australia. Kate (Catherine McClements) is on a plane taking Warren (Dayne Christian), her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo (Vicki Saylor), his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him...
2) Shadow Panic
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Made in the late 1980s, SHADOW PANIC was a response to a world beset by greed, natural catastrophe, war and changing weather patterns. It was a time when many feminist filmmakers were exploring the new wave of screen theorists and feminist philosophers and wondering how we might construct images in our films that might smash through the male-dominated hegemony of the visual image. The idea of structuring a film via the female gaze started to take...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
"I don't think the Depression ever ended ... there was a boom during the war years but for me the Depression was still on." In BREAD AND DRIPPING, four women recount their lives during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s. These are rare first-hand, unfiltered stories told by women about this grim period in world history. Tibby Whalan, Eileen Pittman, Beryl Armstrong and Mary Wright describe their struggles to survive and maintain...
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