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Bastard
Australia / 9 min / Dir: Eugene E-NRG / Short / 2007 / Byron Premiere
Aboriginal, black Australia and white, non-indigenous Australia rarely find each other in the same neighbourhood let alone the same time zone. By taking time out from their ‘Bastard’ of a day, Jacky and Harry bridge the gap between their lives and find an unexpected moment of connection.
Keeping Both Campfires Burning
Australia / 9 min / Dir: Katrina Channells / Documentary / 2007 / Byron Premiere
9 minutes
Noni’s mother is indigenous and her father is Balanda (white Australian). She has spent her whole life trying to balance the two different cultures. A part of her belongs to Maningrida, home of the Ndjebbana people, and another part of belongs to the city of Brisbane.
Flour Sugar Tea
Australia / 26 min / Dir: Lee Willis-Ardler / Documentary / 2007 / Byron Premiere
This film examines the changes to the diet of Aboriginal people forced on them by colonisation, and the catastrophic consequences that these changes have for the health and well-being of communities. Aboriginal director, Lee Willis-Ardler, began making the film with a close friend, John DeSatge. During production, John passed away, and his personal story of illness and premature death became a continuing thread throughout the film. How does it happen that a 42 year old man living in Australia today can die of preventable diseases? Why is life expectancy for Aboriginal men 59 and 77 for non-Aboriginal men? How do families and communities cope with the premature loss of their men in such large numbers?
Many of the preventable diseases and conditions that have ravaged the Indigenous community for some time such as obesity and diabetes, are now taking an increasing toll on the health and life-expectancy of the general community. In both cases, the causes can be traced back to diet and lifestyle. While for some years there has been an alarming trend for Indigenous parents to outlive their children, doctors have warned that this trend is now becoming evident in the wider community. Within this context, 'Flour, Sugar, Tea' goes behind the impersonal statistics to tell the story of John DeSatge, an inspiring Aboriginal man who should not have died so young.
King Justice
Australia, Colombia, Sierra Leone / 9 min / Dir: Miguel Herrera / Documentary / 2007 / Australian Premiere
Musical director for the Positive Musical Project struggles to find something to eat each day. He makes some money by fixing mobile phones, a skill he learnt empirically. Dreaming of becoming a star in order to help the people around him he wants to take his message of peace and hope to the people of Africa and world. He has wanted justice from when he was a child and he was given the name King Justice, a leader, an example of life, an example of hope.
Creole with subtitles
Glue Boys
USA / 65 min / Dir: Philip Hamer / Documentary / 2007 / Australian Premiere
In the streets of Kitale, Kenya homeless children find comfort from their hunger pains by sniffing glue. Unfortunately they also find death in these bottles manufactured and distributed by multinational corporations who reap profits from these accidental consumers. Although the 150 million children living on the Third World's streets may be hidden from the public eye, the global economy is always watching with keen interest. In sunlit corners, young children choke up the little money they have to buy the same glue that the rest of the world uses to hold its shoes together. Only these children are barefoot. With bottles constantly perched at their mouths, they breathe in the toxic fumes until they pass out or fall asleep forever.
Swahili with subtitles.
Best Documentary Nominee.
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