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Harbour Lights
Info
Commissioned by: Victorian Government
Produced: 2020
Length: 17:51 minutes
The Ladies Harbour Lights Guild, circa 1910. Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Victorian Government Architect Jill Garner. Courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
Mission to Seafarers Building circa 1920. Courtesy of Mission to Seafarers.
Seafarers at a Mission event circa 1910. Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Urban historian Chris McConville. Courtesy Wind & Sky Productions.
Seafarers circa 1910. Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Ladies Harbour Lights Guild event in Melbourne circa 1910. Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Seafarers, circa 1910. Courtesy of the Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
About The Film
In WW1 Melbourne a pioneering network of women at the Mission to Seafarers called the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild supported sailors who risked their lives at sea.
The documentary ‘Harbour Lights’ tells the remarkable story of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild and the lives of seafarers in early 20th century Melbourne. It focusses on Melbourne’s iconic Mission to Seafarers building, its connection to the Great War and to a unique community of ships crew and volunteers.
This Wind & Sky Production was produced in collaboration with the Mission to Seafarers Victoria. It was directed by Jary Nemo and written and produced by Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo with executive producers Sue Dight and Gordon MacMillan.
Narrated by Sharon Turley, the film features Jill Garner, Kate Darian-Smith, Chris McConville, Janet Miller and Gordon MacMillan. Music was specifically composed by the incredible Richard Chew. Featuring Melbourne historians, commentators, archivists and architects and rare footage and images of sailing and social life in and around the ports of Melbourne, this film will inform and connect audiences young and old.
Created with the support of the Victorian Government.
Story Background
At the outbreak of World War One shipping was central to the Victorian way of life.
Seafarers from every corner of the world visited Melbourne on merchant ships. They risked their lives bringing goods to what was then the largest port in Australia. Life could be equally difficult in port where exploitation of sailors was rife.
To help protect them from harm the Mission to Seafarers set up a network of support in Australia and around the world. The Mission was first established as a floating chapel in Hobson’s Bay in 1857, but by the early 20th century had established shore-based missions in Williamstown, Port Melbourne, and on the Yarra River in Melbourne.
The Melbourne Mission to Seafarers, which still stands today, was constructed on the Yarra River waterfront in 1917 during the First World War at a time when ships carrying cargo and people were subjected to heightened dangers at sea.
What is little-known about the story is the crucial work of a group of women called the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild who raised significant funds for the Mission’s construction and who volunteered their time to support the global welfare of seafarers from ship to shore.
The inspiration for the film project was the rediscovery in 2007 of a near-forgotten set of dusty old boxes stored under the Mission’s theatre. The boxes were filled with documents and photographs related to the activities of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild from its foundation in 1906 to its demise in the 1960s.
In recent years a dedicated team of volunteers and staff at the Mission has been gradually digitising, identifying and cataloguing the Guild records. Through their research they discovered that the construction of the current Mission building at 717 Flinders Street, particularly the building of the Memorial Chapel, was paid for in large part by the fundraising efforts of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild during WW1.
The archives also revealed that the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild model was a homegrown invention, pioneered in Melbourne in 1906 and exported to Missions around the world.
Though the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild disbanded in the 1960s, their legacy is present in the bones of the building they helped construct during the terrible years of the First World War. Their traces can be found in the outdoor garden, designed and planted by members of the Guild, and in the stained glass, decorative work and plaques in the building’s Memorial Chapel, dedicated to the memory of merchant mariners who lost their lives in the Great War.
Today the Mission continues to operate from the same building and has an active staff and volunteer community working in support of the world’s seafarers who visit the port of Melbourne.
In the News
Peter Krausz, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo Harbour Lights, Movie Metropolis, WYN 88.9FM, 24 July 2021.
Documentary Drive, ‘MDFF 2021: Shorts to Watch’, 06 July 2021.
Annie McLoughlin, ‘Harbour Lights & The Last Typewriter Shop In Melbourne’, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo, Showreel, 3CR Community Radio, 24 June 2021.
Screenings and Events
Winner, Best Documentary Film, Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021, 27 November – 4 December 2021.
Official Selection, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021, 7-31 July 2021.
Official Selection, Setting Sun Film Festival 2021, 18-26 June 2021.
Official Selection, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2021, 18-19 May 2021.
Geelong Wooden Boat Festival: Sunday 8 March 2020, West Lounge Theatre, Geelong Foreshore. Program
Film Launch: Wednesday 26th February 2020, Melbourne Mission to Seafarers.
Viewing the Film
The film is free to show, watch and share online at internet quality at Harbour Lights on YouTube.
To arrange for a high quality screening copy for community screenings and events contact Wind & Sky Productions or Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Media Contact
For interviews and further information, contact Wind & Sky Productions or Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Credits
- Narrator
- Sharon Turley
- Featuring (in order of appearance)
- Dr Chris McConville, Gordon MacMillan, Janet Miller, Professor Kate Darian-Smith and Jill Garner
- With
- Raul S Gantalao Jr, Escoto Lemuel, Ben Schroeder, Cinda Manins
- And
- Ian Fletcher, Yuan Jia, Uma Kothari, Gordon Lansley, William Reed and Cheka Samaranayake
- Directed by
- Jary Nemo
- Written and Produced by
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Music by
- Richard Chew
- Executive Producers
- Sue Dight and Gordon MacMillan
- Research advisors
- Geraldine Brault, Maria Culka, Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Ros Fletcher, Professor Uma Kothari, Dr Barbara Lemon, Catherine McLay, Dr Chris McConville, Janet Miller, Rick Mitchell, Duncan ‘John’ Perryman, Dr Annette Sheill and Peter Taylor
- Archival photographs, music and footage courtesy of
- Australian Red Cross Society, Central Highlands Libraries, Internet Archive, National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia, Mackarness Family Personal Archives, Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria, State Library of Victoria and US National Archives
- Music
- Harbour Lights. Music by Richard Chew. Westering. Music by Richard Chew. Twilight (Crépuscule) by Jules Massenet. Performed by Amelita Galli-Curci. I Love You So, Waltz from The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár. Performed by Elise Stephenson and Harry Macdonough with Orchestra. Harbour Lights 2. Music by Richard Chew. If I Could Fly by Walking Hearts featuring Jennifer Holm. Courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
- With thanks to
- Peter Barrow, Sarah Bartak, Lin Bender AM, Patty Braumueller, Csilla Csongvay, Emer Diviney, Moira Drew, Ian Fletcher, Ajith Jayasuriya, Ben Jones, Patience Jones, Cinda Manins, Madeleine Martiniello, Georgia Melville, Elisabeth Moglia, Tara Oldfield, Lyn Pasquier, Nigel Porteous, Rev’d Onofre (Inni) Punay, Dr Rosalie Triolo, Ben Schroeder, David Simpson, Cheka Samaranayake, Daria Wray, the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and KPMG.
- A special thanks to
- The women of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild 1906 to 1961
- Produced in collaboration with
- The Mission to Seafarers Victoria
- Created with the support of
- The Victorian Government
- Licensing
- This film has been released under a
- Acknowledgement of country
- Project production and development took place on the lands of the Kulin nation. We acknowledge Traditional Owners and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
- Production company
- A Wind & Sky Production
- Copyright with
- © Wind & Sky Productions MMXIX
The Missing
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Commissioned by: Victorian Government
Produced: 2019
Length: 11:21 minutes
Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Chair of History, Flinders University. Still from the film ‘The Missing’, courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
The Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, London, 1918. Courtesy of Australian Red Cross Society.
Dr Bart Ziino, Historian, Deakin University. Still from the film ‘The Missing’. Courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
Burial Parties and Relocating to Proper Graves, France, circa 1919. Source: Marcel Pillon photograph collection, ANZAC House, Melbourne.[/caption]
Vera Deakin, daughter of Alfred Deakin, was integral to the operation of the international Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau. Image courtesy of Australian War Memorial.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival was the first Australian Documentary Festival to go online due to COVID-19
Audience questions at The Missing film launch. Photo by Kathie Mayer.
Panellists Carole Woods, Dr Bart Ziino, Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Associate Professor Fred Cahir and interviewer Lucinda Horrocks at The Missing film launch. Photo by Kathie Mayer.
When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” – their bodies never found. This short documentary and online exhibition explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.
Documentary Film
The short documentary features Professor Melanie Oppenheimer of Flinders University and Dr Bart Ziino of Deakin University, with original compositions by Dr Richard Chew of Federation University. Not to be missed are rarely seen archival images from the Australian Red Cross Heritage Collection and from Anzac House Victorian RSL headquarters.
Skillfully crafted and edited by director Jary Nemo, the eleven minute film is a moving and visually rich reflection on war, grief, commitment and loss, a fitting vehicle to commemorate the centenary of the Great War’s aftermath.
This Wind & Sky Production was directed by Jary Nemo and written and produced by Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks, with executive producer Associate Professor Fred Cahir of Federation University.
Online Exhibition
A companion online exhibition was launched on the Victorian Collections portal in April 2021.
The ‘Missing’ exhibition provides some of the context of the crisis of the missing, the role of the Red Cross and the Graves Workers and the story of the creation of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to provide a place for people to mourn.
Curated by Lucinda Horrocks of Wind & Sky Productions the exhibition features contributions by historians Fred Cahir, Carole Woods and Sara Weuffen and essays by volunteers, archivists and family members who share personal journeys of people during the First World War and in its aftermath.
The exhibition features the stories of: Vera Deakin, determined head of the overseas Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau; Winifred Brotherton, dedicated volunteer bureau clerk who travelled from Castlemaine to London to be of use; Stanley Addison, Red Cross ‘searcher’ who looked in hospitals and battlegrounds for missing and wounded soldiers; Emma Tout, grieving mother at home of a son whose body was never found; Frank Cahir, the seasoned Gallipoli veteran who volunteered for extra duty to photograph war graves; and Will McBeath, young army recruit who was too late to fight and instead became a war graves worker, digging up graves and reburying people he knew.
Visit https://victoriancollections.net.au/stories/the-missing to view the free exhibition.
Screenings and Events
Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021, Erie, Pennysylvania, United States, 29 November – 4 December 2021.
Online Exhibition Launch 19 April 2021, Victorian Collections.
Ogeechee International History Film Festival 2021, February 26-March 5 2021.
Setting Sun Film Festival 2020 (postponed due to COVID), 4-13 February 2021.
Veterans Film Festival 2020, 30 November – December 31 2020.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020 30 June 2020- 15 July 2020.
Film Launch: Friday 29th November 2019, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance.
Awards and Nominations
Honourable Mention, Social Concern Category, GSF Awards-Global Short Film Awards, 2022.
Silver Award, Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 2021.
Nominee, Documentary Award, Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021.
Shortlisted, 2021 Victorian Premier’s History Award, and Commendation, Digital Storytelling Award, 2021 Victorian Community History Awards.
Finalist, Best Documentary – History, 2020 ATOM Awards
Viewing the Film
The film is free to show, watch and share online at internet quality at The Missing on YouTube.
To arrange for a high quality screening copy for community screenings and events contact Wind & Sky Productions.
Viewing the Exhibition
The exhibition is free to watch, show and share online on the portal Victorian Collections.
In the News
‘Frank Cahir saw more of the horror of war than most, and knew its cost‘, Caleb Cluff, The Courier, 27 September 2021.
Interview with Lucinda Horrocks, Heather Horrocks and Fred Cahir, Saturday Breakfast with Matt Tribe, ABC Radio Victoria, 24 April 2021.
‘ANZAC Exhibition’, Sam Mills, WIN News Ballarat, 23 April 2021.
The Missing: the inspiring Australians who went looking for the war dead, Peter Litras, Federation University News, 19 April 2021.
‘What did you do after the war?’ The Missing is short but packs a punch, David Stephens, Honest History, 14 January 2020.
The untold story of the ‘searchers’ who tracked down missing World War I soldiers, Elise Kinsella, ABC News Online, 30 Nov 2019.
PM daughters’ hunt for wartime missing, Yaz Dedovic, Flinders University News, 29 November 2019.
After the war: Remembering those who chose to stay behind, Peter Litras, Federation University News, 13 November 2019.
About the ‘Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances’ Project
The ‘Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances: The Missing’ film and digital gallery project was supported by the Victorian Government and was a project partnership of Federation University, Wind & Sky Productions, Australian Red Cross and RSL Ballarat.
Media contact
For interviews and further information, contact Wind & Sky Productions.
Credits
- Acknowledgements:
- Project production and development took place on the lands of the Wathaurung, Boon Wurrung Wurundjeri and Kaurna peoples. We would like to acknowledge these Traditional Owners and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.
- Federation University Research Project Chief Investigator:
- Fred Cahir
- Creative Producers:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Federation University Australia, Australian Red Cross Society and RSL Ballarat
- Created with the support of:
- the Victorian Government
- Research Advisors:
- Fred Cahir, Moira Drew, Katrina Nicolson, Linda North, Melanie Oppenheimer, Sara Weuffen, Carole Woods and Bart Ziino
- With Thanks to:
- Gillian Anderson, John Cahir, Sandy Cahir, Julie Cotter, Joanna Day, Alan Douglass, David Fitzroy, Leigh Gilburt, Sam Henson, Andrew Hope, Heather Horrocks, Maurie Keating, John MacDonald, Georgia Melville, Kristine Morgan, Brendan Nelson, Paula Nicholson, Fred Pratt, Lynne Redman, Matt Smith, Alex Tascas, Kristen Thornton, Sharon Turley, Creative Victoria, Deakin University, Flinders University, the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance and Royal Historical Society Victoria.
- Featuring:
- Bart Ziino and Melanie Oppenheimer
- Film Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Film Written and Produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Executive Producer on behalf of Federation University:
- Fred Cahir
- Music by:
- Richard Chew
- Research Advisors:
- Fred Cahir, Moira Drew, Katrina Nicolson, Linda North, Melanie Oppenheimer, Sara Weuffen, Carole Woods and Bart Ziino
- Archival photographs and footage courtesy of:
- Anzac House RSL Victoria, Australian Red Cross Society, Australian War Memorial, Central Highlands Libraries, Deakin University Library, Family of Stanley Addison, Museums Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of South Australia, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne Archives and US National Archives
- Music:
- Sun Rim: Music by Richard Chew and Ian Dixon. The Windhover: Music by Richard Chew. Solo Violin; Stephen Morris. A View of the Sky: Composer Richard Chew. Produced by Richard Chew and Tom Robinson.
- With Thanks to:
- Gillian Anderson, John Cahir, Sandy Cahir, Julie Cotter, Joanna Day, Alan Douglass, David Fitzroy, Leigh Gilburt, Sam Henson, Andrew Hope, Heather Horrocks, Maurie Keating, John MacDonald, Georgia Melville, Kristine Morgan, Brendan Nelson, Paula Nicholson, Fred Pratt, Lynne Redman, Matt Smith, Alex Tascas, Kristen Thornton, Sharon Turley, Creative Victoria, Deakin University, Flinders University, the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance and Royal Historical Society Victoria.
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Federation University Australia, Australian Red Cross Society and RSL Ballarat
- Created with the support of:
- the Victorian Government
- Licensing:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International.
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Copyright with:
- Wind & Sky Productions ©2019.
- Curator:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Commissioning Editor on behalf of Federation University:
- Fred Cahir
- Victorian Collections Project Officers:
- Ash Robertson, Georgia Melville and Lynda Bernard
- Essay Authors:
- Fred Cahir, Jo Caminiti, Lucinda Horrocks, Linda North, Kate Spinks, Sara Weuffen, and Carole Woods.
- Digital Essay Photographs and Items Courtesy of:
- Anzac House RSL Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Australian Red Cross Society, Australian War Memorial, Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, Central Highlands Libraries, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Deakin University Library, Imperial War Museum, Tracey Hind (Flickr), Larry Koester (Flickr), Melbourne University Archives, Museums Victoria, National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia, Private collection of the Cahir family, Private collection of the Harrison and McBeath families, Private Collection of the Family of Stanley Addison, Private Collection of the White Family, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of South Australia, Shrine of Remembrance, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne Archives, National Library of Australia, Wernervc (Wikimedia Commons)
Film Credits
Digital Gallery Credits
Memories of War – The Last Goodbye
Film: The Last Goodbye
Info
Commissioned by: Australian and Victorian Governments
Produced: 2015
Length: 18 minutes
The film features Federation University Australia actors reading authentic letters. Pictured here is Alisha Eddy. Photograph by Jary Nemo.
Film research included archival photographs from the era. Here is a photograph of Egypt circa 1915 from State Library of Victoria.
Students of Federation University Australia were interviewed about their perceptions of WW1 in Ballarat. Here actor Nick Murphy is interviewed. Photograph by Jary Nemo.
As part of the project students from Federation University Australia visited the Gold Museum WW1 collection and wrote about their perceptions in the ‘Memories of War’ blog. Here a group of writing students visit the museum. Photograph by Jary Nemo.
The project aimed to capture the attitudes of young people towards the events of WW1 in Ballarat. Here education student Maryanne Deller talks about her experience working on the Daylesford Primary School Honour Board project. Photo by Lucinda Horrocks.
Poster for Remembrance Week Screenings at M.A.D.E Ballarat, 2015.
The Story
In 1914 Australia went to war. Thousands of young recruits passed through Ballarat on their way to the front, to prepare for battle and to say a last goodbye.
This documentary explores the meaning of remembrance and looks at the way the Great War changed us, through the eyes of the young people of Ballarat today.
The Memories of War Project
‘The Last Goodbye’ was part of the ‘Memories of War’ film and research project collaboration between the RSL Ballarat, Federation University Australia, the Gold Museum, the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka and Wind & Sky Productions.
The project connected with writing, history, drama and education students from Federation University Australia who explored what World War One was like for the people of Ballarat.
As part of the project community members were invited to produce content for the Gold Museum on the topic of ‘Memories of War’. Publication of content began in September 2015 and continues to be published. Contributions were diverse and included reflective essays, biographies, poems and performances.
Documentary Approach
From the stories, contributors, content and people unearthed in the project a film ‘The Last Goodbye’ was produced.
The film draws on the performances, reflections, findings and stories of researchers, curators, historians, writers, performers, artists and students of Ballarat.
The core principle of the film was that the narrative would be guided by the perspectives of the central contributors, and is an assemblage of the learning and the journey of local people who have worked on understanding WW1.
The film provides a view point on the way Ballarat has remembered the impacts and legacy of the Great War in this commemorative year.
It is a compilation of seated interviews with four young people who have researched, in various ways, the impact of WW1, interspersed with performed readings and reminiscences chosen by the performers themselves from texts provided by Ballarat-based historians. These live voices are complemented by a selection of historical photographs from local and international archival collections and with music of the WW1 era performed by the Graduating Actors of the Arts Academy.
Screenings
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival: Friday 12 May 2017, Stradey Park Hotel, Furnace, Llanelli, Wales, SA14 4HA, UK
Ballarat Mechanics Institute Twilight Talk: Friday 28 April 2017, Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, Sturt Street, Ballarat, Victoria 3350.
Veterans Film Festival: Saturday 26 November 2016, 1B Castle Street, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 1DT, UK
Screening and Remembrance Event at M.A.D.E Ballarat: Sunday 8th-9th November 2015 the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E Ballarat), 102 Stawell Street South, Ballarat, Victoria 3350.
Are you interested in showing this film to your community? Contact Wind & Sky Productions to find out how you can.
Online
Freely available.
To watch click ‘play’ above or watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/gNFQLorLpwM
Partners
The Memories of War Film and Research Project was a collaboration between the Ballarat RSL, Federation University Australia, the Ballarat Gold Museum, the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka and Wind & Sky Productions. It was funded by the Australian Government Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program and the Victorian Government Anzac Centenary Major Grants Program.
Film Credits
- Written and produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Featuring:
- Robert Lewis Snjezana Cosic Maryanne Deller Nick Murphy
- Players:
- Alisha Eddy David Gallagher Mark Simmonds
- Voices:
- Olivia Cirillo Alisha Eddy Jacqui Essing Isabel Mulrooney Nick Murphy Grace Pernar Nick Rijs Mark Simmonds Laura Telford
- Images and artwork courtesy of:
- Ballarat RSL, Dreamstime.com, Federation University Australia, Harvey Photography, Imperial War Museums, Library of Congress, Museum Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Victoria, Sovereign Hill: Gold Museum
- Oral history research by:
- Ailsa Brackley du Bois, The Editorial Suite
- Research advisors:
- Anne Beggs-Sunter, Snjezana Cosic, Jan Croggon, Zeb Leonard, Robert Lewis, David Waldron
- Casting facilitators:
- Jenene Burke, Kim Durban, Bryce Ives, Annette Chappell
- Camera, lighting, sound, editing, visual effects and post-production by:
- Jary Nemo
- Research, interviews and music direction by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Music:
- ‘If You Want the Old Battalion’, traditional. Arranged by Nathan Gilkes and Bryce Ives (Present Tense). Solo vocalist: Brendan McCosker. Piano: Nathan Gilkes. Performed by the 2015 Graduating Acting Company, Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. ‘Are We Downhearted No!’, by Worton David and Lawrence Wright © EMI Music Publishing. Arranged by Nathan Gilkes and Bryce Ives (Present Tense). Solo vocalist: Casey Binks. Piano: Nathan Gilkes. Performed by 2015 Graduating Acting Company, Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. ‘Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy’, by C.W Murphy and Worton David. Arranged by Nathan Gilkes and Bryce Ives (Present Tense). Piano: Nathan Gilkes. Performed by 2015 Graduating Acting Company, Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. ‘Hitchy Koo’ by Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams and L.Wolfe Gilbert. Arranged by Nathan Gilkes and Bryce Ives (Present Tense). Piano: Nathan Gilkes. Performed by 2015 Graduating Acting Company, Arts Academy, Federation University Australia. Additional incidental piano music performed by Lucinda Horrocks. ‘Minaret – Early Morning Prayer’ and ‘Arabs Gathering their Horses at Dawn’ by Digiffects © Digiffects. ‘Trench Warfare’ audio soundscape by Thorn FX © 2008.
- With thanks to:
- Casey Binks, Lauren Bourke, Zoe Bradshaw, Jenene Burke, Fred Cahir, Angela Campbell, Di Campbell, Annette Chappell, Oliver Cowen, Yvon Davis, Brett Dunlop, Kim Durban, Leah Ferguson-Grieve, Clare Gervasoni, Nathan Gilkes, Luke Grimes, Kayla Hamill, Dominic Hanrahan, Daniel Henderson, Bryce Ives, Maurie Keating, Neil Leckie, Neil Leonard, John MacDonald, Sarah Masters, Brendan McCosker, Sarah Morey, Kristine Morgan, Katy Nethercote, James O’Callaghan, Lynne Redman, Rianh Silvertree, Jane Smith, Kayla Elizabeth Stone, Alexandra Tascas, Amy Tsilemanis, Roger Trudgeon, David Waldron, Sarah Wallis, Ballarat Ranger Military Museum, The Editorial Suite, The George Hotel, Present Tense Ensemble.
- Project partners:
- Ballarat RSL, The Gold Museum, Sovereign Hill, Federation University Australia, MADE Ballarat and Wind & Sky Productions
- Acknowledgements:
- The Memories of War Film and Research Project was funded by the Australian Government Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program and the Victorian Government Anzac Centenary Major Grants Program. Filming and production took place on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their traditional custodianship and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
- Copyright with:
- © Wind & Sky Productions MMXV
Project Credits
- Project Producers:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Creative Director:
- Jary Nemo
- Executive Group:
- Ballarat RSL: Alex Tascas, Maurie Keating, Federation University Australia: John McDonald, Sovereign Hill: Gold Museum: Brett Dunlop, Roger Trudgeon, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka: Jane Smith, Wind & Sky Productions: Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Project Team:
- Project Management, System Design, Web Development:
- Jary Nemo
- Project Coordination and Communications :
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Student Engagement and Recruitment Team:
- Student Liaisons – Mt Helen Campus:
- David Waldron, Jenene Burke, Annette Chappell and Zeb Leonard
- Student Liaisons – Arts Academy:
- Kim Durban, Angela Campbell and Bryce Ives
- Gold Museum Access and Tours Facilitation:
- Snjezana Cosic
- Memories of War Blog Team:
- Blog Co-Ordinator:
- Snjezana Cosic
- Editor:
- Kayla Elizabeth Stone
- Blog Contributors:
- Ian Clark, Richard Eldridge, James O’Callaghan, Danni Roberts, Phil Roberts, Rianh Silvertree, David Waldron, And more blog contributions to come…
- Film Production Team:
- Producers:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Director:
- Jary Nemo
- Featuring:
- Snjezana Cosic, Maryanne Deller, Nick Murphy and Robert Lewis
- Players:
- Alisha Eddy, David Gallagher, Mark Simmonds
- Voices:
- Olivia Cirillo, Jacqui Essing, Grace Pyone Pernar, Isabel Mulrooney, Nick Murphy, Nick Rijs, Laura Telford
- Music:
- Nathan Gilkes, Bryce Ives and the Arts Academy Graduating Acting Company
- Research Team:
- Research Manager:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Research Advisors :
- Jan Croggon, Anne Beggs-Sunter, Robert Lewis, Zeb Leonard, David Waldron, Snjezana Cosic, Roger Trudgeon
- Oral History Research by:
- Ailsa Brackley du Bois, The Editorial Suite
- Event Team:
- Creative Director:
- Jary Nemo
- Lead Vocals:
- Casey Binks (Are We Downhearted No!), Alisha Eddy and Kayla Hamill (I’ll Make a Man Out of You)
- Bagpipes:
- Amber Sinclair
- Piano:
- Nathan Gilkes
- Banjo:
- Oliver Cowen
- Guitar:
- Nick Rijs
- Choir:
- Casey Binks, David Gallagher, Kayla Hamill, Brendan McCosker, Isabel Mulrooney, Nick Murphy, Katy Nethercote, Grace Pyone Pernar, Mark Simmonds, Laura Telford
- Speech by:
- Alexandra Tascas, Ballarat RSL
- Featured photographs by:
- Lachlan Bence, courtesy of the Ballarat Courier, Lucinda Horrocks Jodiee Hutchinson, Jary Nemo, Adam Trafford, courtesy of the Ballarat Courier, Amy Tsilemanis Justin Whitelock, courtesy of the Ballarat Courier
- Stage and Musical Direction and Arrangement:
- Bryce Ives and Nathan Gilkes, Present Tense Ensemble
- Venue Manager:
- Sarah Masters
- Venue Marketing and Bookings :
- Zoe Bradshaw
- Lead Tech:
- Luke Grimes
- Lighting operator:
- Liam Drennan
- Event Publicity Team:
- Marketing Manager:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Artwork Production:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Event photographer:
- Aldona Kmiec
- M.A.D.E Ballarat PR & Social Media:
- Jane Smith and Zoe Bradshaw
- Administrative Support:
- Kristine Morgan
- Envelope Stuffers:
- Peter Millynn, Michelle Dado-Millynn, Kristine Morgan, Maurie Keating, Jary Nemo, Lucinda Horrocks
- Thank you to:
- the M.A.D.E Ballarat front of house staff
- We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of:
- Kim Durban of the Federation University Arts Academy and Bryce Ives and Nathan Gilkes of Present Tense Ensemble in facilitating and arranging the event performances.
- A general thank you to the following Brains Trust and Project Evangelists:
- Lauren Bourke, Fred Cahir, Di Campbell, Yvon Davis, Brett Dunlop, Andrew Eales, Leah Ferguson-Grieve, Clare Gervasoni, Dominic Hanrahan, Daniel Henderson, Maurie Keating, Neil Leckie, Neil Leonard, John McDonald, Sarah Masters, Kristine Morgan, Lynne Redman, Jane Smith, Alexandra Tascas, Amy Tsilemanis, Roger Trudgeon, David Waldron, Ballarat Ranger Military Museum, The Ballarat Courier, The Editorial Suite, The George Hotel, Present Tense Ensemble.
- Project partners:
- Ballarat RSL, The Gold Museum, Sovereign Hill, Federation University Australia, MADE Ballarat and Wind & Sky Productions
- Acknowledgements:
- The Memories of War Film and Research Project was funded by the Australian Government Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program and the Victorian Government Anzac Centenary Major Grants Program. Filming and production took place on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people. We acknowledge their traditional custodianship and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
The David Scott Story
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Commissioned by: The Davids Group
Produced: 2019
Length: 14.28 minutes
David Scott circa 1980, courtesy of the Brotherhood of St Laurence.
The film features archival footage from the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Courtesy Brotherhood of St Laurence.
Richard Tanter, still from the film ‘The David Scott Story’, courtesy Wind & Sky Productions.
David Scott was one of a handful of Australians to witness the eve of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Photograph by Michael Richardson, 1975. Courtesy Michael Richardson and The Age.
Caroline Scott, still from the film ‘The David Scott Story’. Courtesy Wind & Sky Productions.
David Scott in India circa 1966, courtesy of Oxfam Australia.
David Scott had an extraordinary life, beginning as a young navy recruit in WW2. Still from the film ‘The David Scott Story’. Images courtesy of Caroline and Matthew Scott.
Peter Hollingworth, still from the film ‘The David Scott Story’, courtesy Wind & Sky Productions.
The Story
Melbourne activist David Scott spent a lifetime fighting poverty, was a pioneering advocate for East Timor, and created an enduring legacy in social justice and environmental reform.
Through the recollections of people who knew him this gentle, reflective story unpacks David Scott’s life.
Beautifully crafted, the film is also a powerful visual reminder of the social transformations of late 20th century Australia.
Featuring Adrian Harris, Peter Hollingworth, Caroline Scott, Lucinda Horrocks, Richard Tanter and Mick Lumb and incorporating historic images from the archives of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Oxfam Australia, the United Nations, the Richardson East Timor Papers and others this memorable short documentary film will leave you wanting more.
More About David Scott
David Horace Ford Scott (1925-2012).
Once described as ‘one of Australia’s giants in social welfare and social policy’, David Scott was a prominent Australian who had an extraordinary life. He witnessed crucial events in Australia’s history: the Great Depression, the Pacific War, the invasion of East Timor.
He took action where he saw injustice, extraordinary action in the case of East Timor, and he left a lasting mark on the organisations he helmed, as he led them from a 1950s mentality towards the modern phenomenon that is the ‘NGO’.
He is known for many roles, prominent amongst them being the founding director of Community Aid Abroad in the 1960s, the Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in the 1970s and the Chair of the Land Conservation Council and Victoria’s first Commissioner for the Environment in the 1980s. Perhaps most famously, in 1975 on a visit to East Timor to oversee a delivery of international aid, David was one of a handful of Australians to witness events on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of Dili. The experience prompted him to drop all commitments and fly to New York to campaign for justice for the tiny island nation.
David’s character was an interesting mix of conflicting traits: he was both shy and bold, modest but a risk taker, pragmatic yet philosophical, adventurous though plagued by lifelong low self esteem. In 1954 the young Second World War navy veteran stumbled almost accidentally into a life of advocacy on the advice of his pioneering uncle Father Tucker, but once he found his vocation he pursued it with ingenuity, perseverance and gusto.
Driven by a personal mantra to ‘always say yes’ to opportunity despite his pervasive self-doubt, David played a significant part in the transformation of Australian public values and policies in the second half of the Australian 20th century. Growing into a quiet yet determined leader, with political skill and pragmatic goals, he encouraged those around him to step up and become activists for change.
In the eyes of those whom he mentored and worked with, David Scott provided a remarkable example of how to navigate complexity and create change that is just as relevant today as it was in David’s era.
Further Reading
David Scott with Carrie Hutchinson, 2014, ‘Always Say Yes: the Life of David Scott’, Pier 9, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW.
Screenings and Events
The film is free to show, watch and share online at internet quality at The David Scott Story on YouTube.
To arrange for a high quality screening copy for community screenings and events contact Wind & Sky Productions.
The Making of the Film
The film was commissioned by ‘The Davids Group’: David Green, David Hall, Hayden Raysmith and Mike Salvaris; an informal group of friends who knew and had been mentored by David Scott.
The Davids Group, working with the Brotherhood of St Laurence as auspice, was instrumental in publishing David Scott’s memoir ‘Always Say Yes’ which was published posthumously in 2014.
They then commissioned Wind & Sky Productions to make a short film about David Scott’s life which was completed in 2019.
The producers would like to thank all those who gave generously in terms of time, expertise and funds to make this film a reality. Particular thanks go to David Scott’s children Caroline and Matthew, to our marvellous brains trust community of experts on call from distant parts of Australia and around the world, and to the many organisations who gave us access to extraordinary original content.
But we have many others to thank, listed in the credits below.
Credits
- In memory of
- David Scott 1925-2012
- Featuring (in order of appearance)
- Adrian Harris, Peter Hollingworth, Caroline Scott, Lucinda Horrocks, Richard Tanter, Mick Lumb
- Directed by
- Jary Nemo
- Written and Produced by
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Research advisors
- Adrian Harris, Carrie Hutchinson, Sue Roff, Caroline Scott, Matthew Scott, John Waddingham
- Archival audio, photographs, film and news clippings courtesy of
- The Brotherhood of St Laurence Archives, CHART Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor, East Timor Relief Association (ETRA) Archives, Fairfax Syndication, The Library of Congress, Northern Territory Library, Ira and Faith Renton Collection, Oxfam Australia Photographic Archive, Sue Roff, Matthew and Caroline Scott, Snowy River Mail, State Government of Victoria, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, United Nations Department of Public Information, New York, University of New South Wales, Michael Richardson Papers, Victorian Environmental Assessment Council, World Meteorological Organisation
- Specific acknowledgements
- ‘Beautiful Melbourne’, silent film, 1946, (J.G. Fitzsimons), produced by Jack Fitzsimons for the Brotherhood of St Laurence. © Brotherhood of St Laurence; ‘These are our children’, silent film, 1947, (K. Coldicutt, R. Mathews) produced by the Melbourne Realist Film Unit for the Brotherhood of St Laurence. © Brotherhood of St Laurence; East Timor, photographs, October-December, 1975, photographer Michael Richardson, University of New South Wales archives, courtesy of Michael Richardson and the Age. © Michael Richardson and the Age; Order of East Timor Ceremony, photographs, Melbourne, 2010, photographer Richard Kendall, courtesy of Oxfam Australia. © Oxfam Australia; United Nations Security Council, New York, photograph, 1975, photographer Teddy Chen, courtesy of United Nations Department of Public Information. © United Nations; United Nations Fourth Committee, New York, photograph, 1981, photographer Milton Grant, courtesy of United Nations Department of Public Information. © United Nations; United Nations Fourth Committee, New York, 1982, photographer Yukata Nagata, courtesy of United Nations Department of Public Information. © United Nations; ‘UN Headquarters Exteriors’, 1970, archival b-roll, produced by the United Nations. © United Nations; ‘East Gippsland : a bright future’, video, 1987, produced by the Community Education and Information Branch, Victorian Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands. © State Government of Victoria, DELWP; ‘Beautiful Conspiracy’, music, composed by Chris Haigh, via PremiumBeat. © Chris Haigh; Alaricio Fernandes reporting invasion of Dili, 7 December 1975, audio recording. Courtesy of CHART Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor.
- Orphan works
- This film includes archival creative works which remain in copyright. We have tried to identify, locate and contact all rights holders, but some works may remain unattributed. If you recognise yourself as a rights holder, we apologise for the omission and welcome you to come forward so we can negotiate in good faith to obtain permission and discuss your wishes. Contact via www.windsky.com.au or post to Wind & Sky Productions, PO Box 679W, Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia, 3350.
- With thanks to
- Matthew Scott, Caroline Scott, Vivian Papaleo, Jeannie Zhakarov, Tony Nicholson, Tim Nayton, Rob Hudson, Catherine Arnold, Tricia Szirom, Conny Lenneberg, Keith Parsons, Helen Szoke, Joan Phillips, Dr Gillian Sparkes, Doreen Ross, John Waddingham, Robert Wesley-Smith, Gil Scrine, John Hughes, Deane Williams, Yvonne Rulikowski, Peter Christoff, Jock Murphy, Paddy Handbury, Judy Patterson, Sue Mathews, Dan Mathews, Helen Sykes, Victorian Government Library Services, United Nations Photo Library Staff, United Nations AV Library Staff, Brotherhood of St Laurence Library Staff and Volunteers, Northern Territory Library Staff.
- Executive producers
- David Green, David Hall, Hayden Raysmith, Mike Salvaris
- Project auspiced by
- The Brotherhood of St Laurence
- Acknowledgement of country
- Project production and development took place on the lands of the Wadawurrung, Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples. We would like to acknowledge these Traditional Owners and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.
- Licensing
- This film has been released under a
- Production company
- A Wind & Sky Production
- Copyright with
- © Wind & Sky Productions MMXIX
Collections and Climate Change
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Commissioned by: Creative Victoria
Produced: 2018
Length: 9.01 minutes
Dr Mark Norman, Chief Conservation Scientist, Parks Victoria. Photographer Jary Nemo. Courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary. Photographer John Ariens. Courtesy of Friends of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary.
Kate Phillips, Senior Curator, Science Exhibitions, Museums Victoria. Photographer Jary Nemo. Courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
Red Kangaroo, Murray Sunset National Park. Photographer Mark Norman. Courtesy of Parks Victoria.
Professor David Cantrill, Executive Director Science, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Photographer Jary Nemo. Courtesy of Wind & Sky Productions.
Ranunculus victoriensis Victorian Buttercup, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria.
Underwater reef, Yap. Photograph by John Stevenson. Source: Flickr.
The Film
In Victoria climate change is already impacting our oceans and our landscapes and our cultural, social and political life.
The Collections and Climate Change Documentary Film explores how Victoria’s scientific and cultural collections, both the static material kept in museums and the living flora and fauna of our parks and marine reserves, helps us understand the change that is occurring and what sort of actions we need to take in the future.
The nine minute documentary features interviews with Mark Norman, Chief Conservation Scientist at Parks Victoria, Kate Phillips, Senior Curator Science Exhibitions at Museums Victoria, Professor David Cantrill, Executive Director Science at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Sione Napi Francis, Lead Curator Te Pasifika Gallery Redevelopment at Museums Victoria.
The film is part of a broader digital exhibition Collections and Climate Change.
The film can be viewed either
Via the Culture Victoria Collections and Climate Change exhibition at: https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/land-and-ecology/collections-and-climate-change/documentary-story-collections-and-climate-change/
Or on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/YqAPK6QCDKI
The Story
The world is changing.
Change is a natural part of the Earth’s cycle and of the things that live on it, but what we are seeing now is both like and unlike the shifts we have seen before.
Anthropogenic change, meaning change created by humans, is having an impact on a global scale. In particular, human activity has altered the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, causing the world’s climate to change.
Already in the state of Victoria we are seeing evidence of this change around us. In the natural world, coastal waters are warming and bringing tropical marine species to our bays. Desert animals are migrating to Victoria. Alpine winters are changing, potentially putting plants and animals at risk of starvation and pushing species closer to the margins. In the world of humans, island and coastal dwellers deal with the tangible and intangible impacts of loss as sea levels rise, bush dwellers live with an increased risk of life-threatening fires, farmers cope with the new normal of longer droughts, and we all face extreme weather events and the impacts of social and economic change.
Digital Exhibition
Collections and Climate Change is an online digital exhibition on Creative Victoria’s Culture Victoria portal, which is a free community resource. The exhibition explores how Victoria’s scientific and cultural collections help us understand climate change. It focuses on three Victorian institutions – Museums Victoria, the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Parks Victoria. It looks at how the information gathered and maintained by a dedicated community of researchers, curators, scientists, specialists and volunteers can help us understand and prepare for a hotter, drier, more inundated world.
The exhibition is made up of a short documentary film and twenty-one examples highlighting how botanical records, geological and biological specimens and living flora and fauna provide a crucial resource for scientists striving to map continuity, variability and change in the natural world. And it helps us rethink the significance of some of Victoria’s cultural collections in the face of a changing climate.
Commissioned by Creative Victoria the project was produced by Wind & Sky Productions in partnership with Museums Victoria, Parks Victoria and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
The digital exhibition is free to watch, show and share at: https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/land-and-ecology/collections-and-climate-change/documentary-story-collections-and-climate-change/
Awards and Nominations
Finalist, Best Science Movie, 2020 Vienna Science Film Festival
Credits
- Creative Producers:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Commissioning Editors on behalf of Creative Victoria:
- Dimity Mapstone and Georgia Melville
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Project Manager:
- Jary Nemo
- Digital Gallery Curator:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Documentary Film Director:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviewees:
- Mark Norman, Chief Conservation Scientist, Parks Victoria; Kate Phillips, Senior Curator Science Exhibitions, Museums Victoria; Professor David Cantrill, Executive Director Science, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria; Sione Napi Francis, Lead Curator Te Pasifika Gallery Redevelopment, Museums Victoria.
- Documentary film additional appearances by:
- Friends of Beware Reef Volunteers, John Ariens, National Herbarium of Victoria Volunteers, Mary Ward, Sandra Whitty, Vicky Jaeger, Museums Victoria Staff, Mark Nikolic, Mohamed Nishath Mohamed Nizar and Chris Rowley.
- Story Contributors:
- Di Bray, Rebecca Carland, Liza Dale-Hallett, Katie Date, Catherine Forge, Sione Napi Francis, Casey Gibson, Megan Hirst, Lucinda Horrocks, Jane Melville, Stuart Mills, Andrew Nixon, Stephen Poropat, Dominique Potvin, Kate Phillips, Thomas Rich, Mark Rodrigue, Kevin Rowe, Rolf Schmidt, Stella Shipway, Neville Walsh, Parks Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Museums Victoria.
- Moving images in documentary film courtesy of:
- John Ariens, Friends of Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary, Mike Irvine, Don Love, NASA, Parks Victoria, VideoBlocks
- Moving images in Digital Gallery by:
- Julian Finn, Museums Victoria and Wind & Sky Productions.
- Photographs and artwork in documentary film courtesy of:
- CSIRO Science Image, Chris Hayward, Megan Hirst, Greg McCarthy, Museums Victoria, Mark Norman, Parks Victoria, David Paul, Mark Rodrigue, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Steven Wright, Wikimedia Commons.
- Photographs and artwork in Digital Gallery by:
- John Augier, Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Arthur Bartholomew, Tim Bawden, Tony Bowden, John Broomfield, European Space Agency, Catherine Forge, Marc Freestone, Lucinda Gibson, Global Environment Facility, Bob Hare, D. Harley, Chris Hayward, Megan Hirst, Lucinda Horrocks, Matt Kieffer, Anna Lee, Kaveman743, Andre Messina, Stuart Mills, Steven Moreton, Paul Morris, Museums Victoria, Mark Norman, David Paul, Thomas Parkes, Parks Victoria, Christian Pearson, Mark Rodrigue, Karen Rowe, Kevin Rowe, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Stella Shipway, David Staples, Rodney Start, John Stevenson, Jonathon Stevenson, Peter Trusler, Neville Walsh, Heath Warwick
- Story Advisors:
- Liza Dale-Hallett, Pina Milne, Andrew Nixon, Kate Phillips, Mark Rodrigue and Ken Walker.
- Camera, Sound, Editing and Post Production by:
- Jary Nemo
- Story Research, Interviews and Additional Digital Gallery Content Written by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Proofing by:
- Mrs Wordsworth-Bottling
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Museums Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Parks Victoria
- With Thanks to:
- Erin Batty, Di Bray, John Broomfield, Peter Dahlhaus, Julian Finn, Heather Horrocks, Don Love and the Friends of Beware Reef, Nuni Markito-Russen, the National Herbarium of Victoria, Nicole O’Brien, Anna Quinn, Nathan Robinson, Sally Stewart, Joanna Sumner, Danielle Walker, Genefor Walker-Smith, Maraika van Wessem, Peter Wilson, and Rob Zugaro.
- Acknowledgements:
- This project was created with the support of the Victorian Government through the Victorian Cultural Network Program and Creative Victoria. Project production and development took place on the lands of the Wadawurrung, Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples. We acknowledge these Traditional Owners as custodians of country and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
- Film copyright with:
- Wind & Sky Productions ©2018
- Digital Gallery copyright with
- Individual creators
Data Democracy
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Commissioned by: CeRDI
Produced: 2018
Length: 13:11 minutes
Dr Gillian Sparkes Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
Professor Richard Sinnott
George Fong, Lateral Plains
Paul Box, CSIRO
Associate Professor Peter Dahlhaus
Data Democracy
We are in an era where communities can interact with data in ways that were impossible to imagine a few short decades ago. While there are undoubted public benefits from accumulating, federating and aggregating data, both government and private institutional data use has in recent times been highly controversial, raising important questions about access, rights and community interest in the new digital and geospatial age.
Commissioned by the Centre for eResearch and Digital Information (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia, this short documentary aims to inform and inspire discussion on the issues of fairness, access, sharing and communicating data in the technological era.
It features Paul Box (CSIRO), Associate Professor Peter Dahlhaus (CeRDI), George Fong (ex-Internet Australia), Professor Richard Sinnott (University of Melbourne) and Dr Gillian Sparkes (Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability).
Screenings
Official Selection Silicon Valley Film Festival 2020, 11-13 December 2020.
Launch screening, panel discussion and networking drinks: Monday 8 April 2019, 5:30pm-7:15pm, Room 106, The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf VIC 3006.
Credits
- Featuring :
- George Fong, Professor Richard Sinnott, Dr Gillian Sparkes, Paul Box and Associate Professor Peter Dahlhaus
- With:
- Matthew Currell and Kirsten McKenna
- Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and Produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Executive Producer:
- Associate Professor Helen Thompson
- ‘CSIRONET’ (1985) Film Footage Courtesy of:
- CSIRO
- Stock Footage and Photography Courtesy of:
- CSIRO Publishing, Pexels, Pixabay, PxHere, NASA Images, Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
- Music:
- Spherical Piano by Magnetize Music (via Premium Beat)
- With thanks to:
- Jessica Anderson, Craig Briody, Jennifer Corbett, Birgita Hansen, Jenny Jelbart, Robert Milne, Angela Murphy, Erin Seymour, Emily Ross, CSIRO Science Image, the Office of the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, and the Ballarat Technology Park.
- Licensing:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Acknowledgement of country:
- Film production took place on the land of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their traditional ownership of country and pay respects to Elders past, present and future.
- Produced by:
- Wind & Sky Productions www.windsky.com.au
- Commissioned by:
- Commissioned by the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Federation University Australia www.cerdi.edu.au
- Copyright with:
- © CeRDI 2018
Out of the Closets, Into the Streets
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Commissioned by: Culture Victoria
Funded by: Creative Victoria
Produced: 2016
Length: 12.22 minutes
Gay Pride Week 1973. Photograph by Frank Prain. Courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
Barbara Creed. Photograph by Wind & Sky Productions.
Q&A session with key participants, historians and film-makers, Castlemaine, 2016. Photo by Luke Grimes.
Gay Pride Week Poster 1973. Courtesy of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
The Story
In 1970s Melbourne a group of students made a stand for gay pride at a time when homosexuality was criminalised and discrimination and abuse was widespread. When being gay meant hiding your true self. Where the act of coming out was a radical form of protest.
Out of the Closets, Into the Streets explores the moment Melbourne’s gay and lesbian people found their voice through the Gay Liberation Movement. The story documents the moment gay and lesbian people took to the streets, coming out and proud and challenging the status quo.
Digital Exhibition
The project is a digital exhibition commissioned by Culture Victoria, an online platform that shares the stories held by collecting organisations across the state. The story was produced by Wind & Sky Productions in collaboration with the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and is based on the 2015 physical exhibition of the same name curated by the Archives (then known as the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives).
The project features a short documentary film produced by Wind & Sky Productions, an audio interview with Dennis Altman, the father of Gay Liberation in Australia, and a digital gallery curated by ALGA of manifestos, photographs, posters, flyers and newspaper articles from the time.
The Film
The story’s short documentary film features interviews with Melbourne Gay Liberation Front members, archival images from the Australian Queer Archives collection, and original Super 8 footage of 1970s Gay Lib and Women’s Lib activities filmed and edited by Barbara Creed.
Screenings and Events
Nominee, Short Documentary Category, Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival Winter Edition 2021, 16-26 December 2021.
Official Selection, Flickfair OnDemand Film Festival November 2021, 1-31 November 2021.
2020 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Advanced COVID Safe Virtual Film Festival Screenings June 30-15 July 2020. In cinema screening 10:45am Sunday 23rd May 2021, Shorts Session 1, Cinema Nova, Carlton.
2020 Geelong Pride Film Festival Online from 23 October 2020 to 3 November 2020 as part of the ‘Celebrating Elders’ session.
2018 Revelation Perth International Film Festival screening with feature film ‘Queerama’, 10, 14 and 16 July 2018, Luna Cinema Leederville 155 Oxford Street, Leederville 6007.
2018 Setting Sun Film Festival. FINALIST Best Documentary. FINALIST Best Film Cultural Diversity.
2018 SPE Media Festival. Thursday 1 to Saturday 4 March 2018, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2018 Melbourne Women in Film Festival. Shorts Session 1 4pm Saturday 25 February at the RMIT Cinema, 113 Swanston Street Melbourne.
Film Screening & Panel Discussion – LGBTIQ History Month 2017, Yarra Libraries, Monday 9 October 2017, Fitzroy Town Hall Ballroom, 201 Napier St, Fitzroy VIC 3065.
2017 St Kilda Film Festival Australia’s Top 100 Short Films: Where: St Kilda Town Hall, Cnr Carlisle Street and Brighton Road, St Kilda. When: 6:15pm Monday 22 May 2017.
2017 Melbourne Queer Film Festival Special Free Public Screening and Panel Discussion: , 2:30pm Sunday 26 March 2017, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Film Premiere: 2pm Saturday 8 October 2016, Theatre Royal, 30 Hargraves Street, Castlemaine, Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival.
Project Launch: 28 November 2016, 4:30pm, the Daylesford Hotel, Daylesford.
In the News
Annie McLoughlin, ‘Out of the Closets and The Last Extinction‘, Interview with Producer Kathie Mayer, Showreel, 3CR Community Radio, 6 May 2021.
Daniel White & the Outtakes Team, ‘2020 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival with special Guests Posy Dixon & Lucinda Horrocks’, Outtakes, Joy FM, 1 July 2020.
Nathan Senn, ‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets: Celebrating the Spirited Rise of Melbourne’s Gay Liberation Movement’, Interview with Producer Lucinda Horrocks, Inner Circle Magazine, Issue 4, June 2017, http://innercirclemagazine.com.au/community/out-of-the-closets-into-the-streets-celebrating-the-spirited-rise-of-melbournes-gay-liberation-movement/
What’s On Melbourne blog, ‘Eight things you need to see at Melbourne Queer Film Festival’, 9 March 2017, http://blog.thatsmelbourne.com.au/melbourne_queer_film_festival_2017/
James McKenzie and Yvette Keen, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo, In Ya Face, 3CR Melbourne, 855 AM, 4:15pm Friday 10 March 2017
Lynden Nicholls, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo, The Arts Program, Voice FM Ballarat, 99.9 FM, 6pm Wednesday 8 March 2017
Lucinda Horrocks, ‘Out of the Closets: A Homosexual History of Melbourne’, Vida blog, Australian Women’s History Network, 14 December 2016, http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/out-of-the-closets/
Amber Wilson, ‘Doco ode to gay rights’, The Courier, 1 October 2016, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/4200995/doco-ode-to-gay-rights/
Larissa Romensky, ‘Documentary film explores history of gay liberation movement in Melbourne’, 15 September 2016, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-15/history-of-gay-liberation-movement-in-melbourne/7849516
Credits
- Creative Producers:
- Lucinda Horrocks, Kathie Mayer and Jary Nemo
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Project Manager and Film Line Producer:
- Jary Nemo
- Digital Content Creative Director:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Digital Gallery Curation Notes Written by:
- Nick Henderson with Lucinda Horrocks, drawing on the original research of Graham Willett
- Digital Content Assistance and Support:
- Dimity Mapstone
- Story Researchers:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Kathie Mayer
- Research Advisors:
- Nick Henderson and Graham Willett
- Film Written and Produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks, Kathie Mayer and Jary Nemo
- Film Direction, Camera, Sound, Editing and Post Production:
- Jary Nemo
- Original Super 8 Footage Shot and Edited by:
- Barbara Creed
- Film Second Camera, Scouting and Location Host:
- Kathie Mayer
- Film Interviewer:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Interview Subjects:
- Professor Dennis Altman, Professor Barbara Creed, Andrew Hansen, Peter McEwan, Jude Munro AO and Dr Graham Willett
- Still Photographs and Artwork Courtesy of:
- Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, The Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, Barbara Creed
- Original Creators of Archival Materials:
- Barbara Creed, Julian Desaily, Rennie Ellis, Kirsty McClaren, Peter McEwan, Frank Prain, Unknown Photographers, Unknown Artists
- Film Music by:
- Fire through the Sky, Musicalman, courtesy of PremiumBeat, Sax in the City, RimskyMusic, courtesy of PremiumBeat
- With thanks to:
- Professor Dennis Altman, Dr Marcus Bunyan, Professor Barbara Creed, Manuela Furci, Ponch Hawkes, Peter McEwan, Chris Sanders, Dr Graham Willett, Lotus Ye, the Mayer-Cobb Family, the Melbourne University Student Union, the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive.
- Commissioned by:
- Culture Victoria.
- Funded by:
- Creative Victoria.
- In collaboration with:
- The Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
- Culture Victoria Commissioning Editors:
- Eleanor Whitworth, Tanya Wolkenberg and Dimity Mapstone
- Acknowledgement:
- Based on the original exhibition of the same name by the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Film production and development took place on the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung (Wathaurung), Boon wurrung and Woi wurrung peoples. We would like to acknowledge these traditional owners and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
- Copyright with:
- © Wind & Sky Productions 2016 (film and audio), archival contributors (digital gallery).
Exile: Songs & Tales of Irish Australia
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Client: Goanna Arts
Produced: 2016
Paul Kelly, Exile Concert, QPAC, February 2016. Photograph by Benjamin Knight.
Still from visuals, Exile Concert. Wind & Sky Productions.
Shane Howard, Exile Dress Rehearsal, Hamer Hall. Photo by Tim Chmeilewski.
Still from An Gorta Mor visual segment, Exile Concert. Wind & Sky Productions.
Still from Ned Kelly visual segment, Exile Concert, Wind & Sky Productions.
Exile Visuals, Modernity segment. By Wind & Sky Productions.
Shane Howard, Exile Dress Rehearsal, Melbourne. Photo by Tim Chmeilewski.
Leah Flanagan, Exile Concert, QPAC. Photo by Benjamin Knight.
This stirring live musical celebration of the Irish in Australia featured specially commissioned documentary visuals and special effects by Wind & Sky Productions.
A CD/DVD recording of the concert is now available for download or order from ABC Music at the link https://abcmusic.lnk.to/Exile
The Exile Concert
Ireland’s greatest export has been her people and for centuries emigration and exile have been harsh, repeating themes of Irish history.
This live event celebrated the Irish impact on Australian life by bringing together an exciting array of music artists from Ireland and Australia. The enduring influence of the Irish on Australian history, music and politics was recounted through a combination of music, song, documentary film visuals, text and narration.
Almost a third of all Australians claim some degree of Irish descent. Through abundant literature, music, poetry and art, as well as a keen hunger for justice, the Irish spirit has stamped itself on the evolving culture of Australia.
The concert toured Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Queensland in February 2016 with performers Paul Kelly, Declan O’Rourke, Leah Flanagan, Sean Tyrrell, Shane Howard, Lynnelle Moran, Pauline Scanlon, John Spillane and Aine Tyrrell stirring sell out crowds in the largest concert venues in the country.
‘Exile’ was produced by Goanna Arts and Troubadour Touring and supported by funding from the Culture Ireland. The project was a fitting way to commemorate the centenary year of the 1916 Easter Uprising, the catalyst for Ireland’s nationhood.
There is no denying the contribution that the Irish have made to Australian life. It’s certainly varied but rarely dull.
Documentary Visuals and Effects
Artistic Director Shane Howard of Goanna Arts commissioned Wind & Sky Productions to produce the concert visuals. The ambitious combination of short documentary film segments, text displays and stills covered the history of Ireland and Australia from ancient times to modernity. Wind & Sky Productions producers Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo worked closely with Shane to fine tune the documentary story segments, adding their signature qualities of simple, powerful visual storytelling combined with solid historical research, to the project.
Core documentary content covered Ireland’s golden age, the English conquest of Ireland, colonisation and oppression, convict transportation to Australia, the impact and devastation of the famine, the contrasting experience of Australian Aboriginal people, migration of the Irish to Australia, the influence of the Irish on core events such as the Eureka Stockade, the union movement, Federation, and World War 1 and the enduring legacy of the Irish on Australian society and politics.
The concert also emphasised the stories of three significant Irish Australian heroes: John Boyle O’Reilly the celebrated American poet and escaped convict, the spirited, rebellious Ned Kelly, and the Sisters of St John of God who fought entrenched government racism towards Aboriginal people of the Kimberley in the 1930s.
Each documentary segment, though short, had, in typical Wind & Sky Productions style, a lot going on under each seemingly simple narrative. The visuals provided a fitting and moving context for the live musical performances of traditional and contemporary songs performed by a celebrated line up of Australian and Irish artists.
These live performances intermingled with documentary to powerful effect to sell out crowds at Hamer Hall Melbourne, the Adelaide Festival Centre, the Factory Theatre Sydney and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane in February 2016.
Screenings/ Events
Port Fairy Folk Festival 2018, Friday 9 March, 2018.
Exile Concert with special guests the QPAC Choir, QPAC, Brisbane, Monday 29 February 2016.
‘A Special evening With…’, Factory Theatre, Marrickville, Wednesday 24 February 2016.
Exile Concert, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, Sunday 21 February 2016.
Exile Concert, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Saturday 20 February 2016.
Reviews
John Dexter, The Great Australian-Irish Songbook: Shane Howard’s Exile, The Adelaide Review, February 4, 2016.
Bronwen Caple, Exile: Songs & Tales of Irish Australia @ Adelaide Festival Centre 21/02/2016, Amplify, Australian Music Network, 22 February 2016.
Honey B, Exile: Songs & Tales of Irish Australia, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Sunday, February 21, Entertainment Hive.
Mark O’Connor, Exile: Songs & Tales Of Irish Australia @ The Factory Theatre Review , scenestr, Friday 26 February 2016.
Audience Reactions
“Fantastic concert…worth the drive from Cairns,” Lisa O’Mara, Facebook
“Fabulous show.. Very touching, and such amazing talent”, Suzanne Clark, Facebook
“Wonderful, wonderful show in Adelaide on Sunday night. Very touching, fabulous music, great but sad stories that need to be told. Far more than I was expecting”, Chuck Wainright, Facebook
“Saw Exile last night in Adelaide, loved every bit of it, so interesting as well as great music and all the artists were awesome”, Shirley Snelling, Facebook
“A wonderful event. A revelation of the sadness of the past. And also celebration of the joy, and the music, in the hands of true artists.” Kevin Rooney, Facebook
“It was magical night. Worth every penny! Would go to it again.” Gerard Tuffield, Facebook
Further Information
‘Exile’ concert was produced by Goanna Arts and Troubadour Music with funding from Culture Ireland.
The concert visuals and special effects were produced by Wind & Sky Productions.
Exile Project Credits
- Feature Artists (in order of appearance):
- Pauline Scanlon, Declan O’Rourke, John Spillane, Lynelle Moran, Leah Flanagan, Shane Howard, Sean Tyrell, Aine Tyrell and Paul Kelly
- Fiddle/Mandolin:
- Ewen Baker
- Harp/Piano:
- Michelle Doyle
- Pipes/Whistles:
- Nick Martin
- Flute/Whistles:
- Lynnelle Moran
- Drums & Percussion :
- Greg Sheehan
- Bass/Mandolin/Guitar:
- John Hudson
- Button Accordion:
- Paddy Fitzgerald
- Guitar/Didjeridu:
- Shane Howard
- Mandocello/Banjo:
- Sean Tyrrell
- Produced by:
- Teresa O’Brien, Fran Daly and Alicia Massey
- Musical Director:
- Ewen Baker
- Production Manager:
- Sarah Liversidge
- Stage Manager:
- Brock Brocklesby
- Tour Manager:
- Austin Fogarty
- Audio Engineer:
- Brett Doig
- Lighting Design:
- Matt King
- Consulting Historian:
- Edward Ryan
- Traditional Music Consultant:
- Paddy Fitzgerald
- Assistant Artistic Director:
- Steven Richardson
- Original Concept by:
- Shane Howard.
Film Production Credits
- Produced by:
- Shane Howard, Lucinda Horrocks, Jary Nemo and Teresa O’Brien
- Directed and Edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written by:
- Shane Howard with Lucinda Horrocks
- Music Direction and Sound Production:
- Shane Howard
- Narrated by:
- Aine Tyrell and Shane Howard
- Irish Translations/Aistriúchán le:
- Edward Ryan/ Éamonn ÓRiain
- Visual Effects by:
- Jary Nemo
- Script Editor:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Archival Research by:
- Lucinda Horrocks, Teresa O’Brien, Edward Ryan
- Film Music:
- ‘Bean Dubh an Ghleanna’Liam O’Flynn feat. Irish Chamber Orchestra © 1998 Tara Music Company Ltd. Traditional & Original songs performed and arranged by Nick Martin, Ewen Baker, Shane Howard.
- Featured Visual Artists:
- ‘My Australia My Journey’ Series (2015), ‘We R You’ Series (2014), Solo Portraits (2014, 2015), Photographs, by Aldona Kmieć. © Aldona Kmieć. ‘Spirit Ark – Navigation by the Stars’, Linocut (2010) by Arone Meeks. © Arone Meeks. ‘Mount Warrenheip and Eureka Stockade’, Acrylic on Canvas, (2013) by Aunty Marlene Gilson. © Marlene Gilson. ‘Famine’, Sculpture, (1997) by Rowan Gillespie. ‘Portrait of Refugee’, Photograph, (2009), by Alex Proimos. ‘Women and children among Syrian refugees’, Photograph, (2015), by Mstyslav Chernov. Additional stills photography by Teresa O’Brien (2015).
- Film Footage Featured:
- ‘Man of Aran’, 1934, directed by Robert Flaherty, written and edited by John Goldman (Monck), produced by Michael Balcon. Gainsborough Pictures. ‘Story of the Kelly Gang’, 1906, directed by Charles Tait, written by Charles and John Tait, produced by William Gibson, Millard Johnson, John Tait and Nevin Tait.
- Stock Footage, Photographs and Archival Images Courtesy of:
- Adele Howard, Albert Kahn Museum, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australian War Memorial, Ballarat Gold Museum, Big Stock, Bodlean Library, British Library, Broome Historical Society, City of Sydney Archives, Corey Leopold, Geraldine Ryan, Envato, Flickr, Friends of St Brigids Association Inc., Gareth Wray, Graeme Churchard, Internet Archive, Imperial War Museums, Jamie McKew, The Kelly Family, Library of Congress, Luke Durkin, Lynnelle Moran, The Maggie Diaz Collection, Melbourne Diocesan Historical Commission, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Museum Victoria, National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia, National Library of Ireland, Nicolas Raymond, Norman Archive, Northern Territory Library, Oughterard Heritage, Patrick Fitzgerald, Powerhouse Museum, Public Record Office Victoria, Rijksmuseum, Rob Hurson, Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre, Broome, Sitomon, Sodacan, South Dublin Libraries, State Library of NSW (Mitchell Library), State Library of Queensland (John Oxley Library), State Library of Victoria, State Library of Western Australia, Toby Hudson, TimJN1, Teresa O’Brien, U.S. Department of State, VectorStock, Vecteezy, Views of the Famine, Video Block, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Western Australian Museum, Wikimedia Commons, Wind & Sky Productions.
Project Acknowledgements
- With Grateful Thanks to:
- David Anderson, Lauren Bourke, Basil Cook, Steve Cooney, Snjez Cosic, Gwendolen De Lacy, Martin Flanagan, Rowan Gillespie, Aunty Marlene Gilson, James Griffin, Sister Pat Jacobs, Judi Keneally, Aldona Kmieć, Arone Meeks, Ian Lovell, Rachael Naughton, Uncle Bryon Powell, Tracey Manallack, Sarah Mangan, Julie McLaren, Helen Mary Martin, Bernie Ní Mhuirteagh, Stephen Pigram, Simon Raynor, Mossie Scanlon, Jane Smith, Cíaran Walsh, Aunty Joy Wandin-Murphy, Penney and Logan, Melbourne Arts Centre, Adelaide Festival Centre, St Brigids, Crossley, Alphington Grammar , Ard-Chonsalacht na hÉreann (Consulate General of Ireland), An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála, ( Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) , Sisters of St John of God Heritage Centre, Broome, Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation, QPAC and the QPAC Choir. ‘Exile’ production and performances took place on the country of the traditional owners of the land in which we work and live. The producers acknowledge their ancient custodianship and pay respects to their elders, past and present.
- Films produced by:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- ‘Exile’ concert produced by:
- Goanna Arts and Troubadour Music
- Proudly supported by:
- Culture Ireland.
Seeing the Land from an Aboriginal Canoe
Info
Commissioned by: Culture Victoria
Produced: 2015
Length: 10.27 minutes
Uncle Bryon Powell, Wadawurrung Elder, talks about stories of canoe use by Wadawurrung people. Interviewed on the banks of the Barwon River, Geelong. Still by Jary Nemo
Associate Professor Fred Cahir on the Big Screen, Fed Square, July 2015. Photograph by Jary Nemo.
The Culture Victoria project included a full image gallery with archival images, extended audio interviews, and a specifically commissioned documentary.
The Culture Victoria story objects included film, audio and images with curatorial text created by Wind & Sky Productions and three specifically commissioned historical essays written by Fred Cahir and Lucinda Horrocks.
Waggoners Fording a Stream, Illustrated Australian News, engraver FW Sleap, 1883, courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.
Jamie Lowe, Djabwurrung man. Still by Jary Nemo.
Associate Professor Fred Cahir. Still by Jary Nemo.
The Story
On the rivers of remote Victoria, 19th century European settlers depended on Aboriginal navigators and canoe builders to transport goods, stock and people.
The Aboriginal bark canoe was a technology in demand in regional Victoria in the 1800s. Explorers and drovers, gold miners and settlers used Aboriginal ferrying services and boat building services to conduct trade and transport. Stories abound of trade, canoeing, and heroic rescues on rivers such as the Murray, Goulburn, Campaspe, Ovens and Loddon, shedding light on the generosity, resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Indigenous inhabitants and of the trading relationships formed between Aboriginal people and European colonists. Indeed it could be argued that the waterways skills of Aboriginal Australians were integral to the early economic viability of Victoria.
Multimedia Project
Wind & Sky Productions produced a short documentary film and multimedia gallery for Culture Victoria, curating the online exhibition and producing the text, video, audio and visual content. The project was launched on the 27 May 2015 to mark the beginning of National Reconciliation Week 2015. The documentary film screened at the Big Screen at Federation Square, Melbourne, from the 5-11 July 2015 as part of NAIDOC Week 2015. The project featured interviews with the historian Associate Professor Fred Cahir and Traditional Owners Uncle Bryon Powell, Jamie Lowe and Rick Nelson, and included artwork, maps and photographs from the regional and metropolitan collections of the State Library of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Public Record Office Victoria, Museum Victoria and the Ballarat Gold Museum. Three short historical essays written by Fred Cahir and Lucinda Horrocks were also specially produced for the project. The project was freely available to access by the public from 2015-2022, when the Culture Victoria Portal closed.
Screenings
Online: https://youtu.be/K9QmxoY0TQ0
April 2022, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival Spring Edition
18 June 2017, St Andrews Film Society, St Andrews
26-28 May 2017, Gnarwirring Ngitj Festival, Sovereign Hill Ballarat
28 April 2017, Setting Sun Short Film Festival, Yarraville
28 September 2016, Australian Limnology Conference, Ballarat
July 2016, 2016 NAIDOC Week Special Screening, Child and Family Services (CAFS), Ballarat
27 May 2016, Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine, Reconciliation Week Screenings
9-10 April 2016, Lake Bolac Eel Festival, Lake Bolac
12-14 March 2016, Geelong Wooden Boat Festival, Geelong
20 February 2016, Geelong Environmental Film Festival, Geelong
21 November 2015, Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival (CLIFF), Castlemaine
5-11 July 2015, The Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne
Awards
Nominee – Jary Nemo, Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Cinematography, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, London, Spring 2022.
Nominee – Jary Nemo, Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Editing, Archival Usage & Assembly, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, London, Spring 2022.
Finalist, Best Cultural Diversity, Setting Sun Short Film Festival, Yarraville, 2017.
Finalist, Best Documentary Metro, Setting Sun Short Film Festival, Yarraville, 2017.
Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA Awards) 2016, Highly Commended, Indigenous Project or Keeping Place, Level 2.
Media
Lucinda Horrocks, ‘seeing the land from an Aboriginal canoe’, Association Magazine, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Autumn 2017, pp.30-33.
Fred Cahir and Lucinda Horrocks, ‘Seeing the Land from an Aboriginal Canoe’, Park Watch Magazine, September 2016 No 266, pp 24-25.
Larissa Romensky, ‘Documentary film explores significance of Aboriginal entrepreneurship in Victoria during colonial times’, ABC Central Victoria, 19 November 2015, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-19/documentary-film-explores-significance-of-aboriginal-transport/6954288
Shane Fowles, ‘Seeing the Land from an Aboriginal Canoe documentary details indigenous assistance to settlers’, Geelong Advertiser, 7 July 2015, http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/seeing-the-land-from-an-aboriginal-canoe-documentary-details-indigenous-assistance-to-settlers/story-fnjuhovy-1227430795289
Lucinda Horrocks radio interview, Breakfast with Dominic Brine, 107.9 ABC Ballarat, 6 July 2015.
Melissa Cunningham, ‘Ballarat’s Aboriginal history set to light up big screen’, Ballarat Courier, 2 July 2015, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3185898/unknown-history-explored/
Film Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and researched by:
- Fred Cahir and Lucinda Horrocks
- Featuring:
- Fred Cahir, Uncle Bryon Powell, Jamie Lowe, Rick Nelson
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Archival images courtesy of:
- The Art Gallery of Ballarat and The State Library of Victoria.
- With thanks to:
- Uncle Frank Abrahams, Aunty Vicki Abrahams, John Blythman, Lauren Bourke, Maxine Briggs, Leonie Cameron, Charlotte Christie, Ian Clark, Jeremy Clark, Brett Dunlop, Peter Freund, Richard Gillespie, Barbara Huggins, Karmen Jobling, Tracey Manallack, Rosemary McInerney, Julie McLaren, Kimberley Moulton, Gordon Morrison, Grattan Mullett, Uncle Bill Nicholson, Melanie Raberts, Felicity Say, Vic Say, Aunty Loraine Sellings, Jeanette Tasker, Miriam Troon, Roger Trudgeon, John Tully, Uncle Larry Walsh, Simone Werts, John Young, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the Ballarat Mechanics Institute, Brambuk National Park & Cultural Centre, Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, Dunolly & District History, the Gold Museum Ballarat, Federation University Australia, the Koori Heritage Trust, Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, Museum Victoria, the Public Record Office Victoria, the State Library of Victoria, the Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation, and the Wurundjeri Tribe Land and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council.
- Commissioned by:
- Culture Victoria
- Funded by:
- Creative Victoria
- Acknowledgement:
- This film was created for the Culture Victoria website (www.cv.vic.gov.au) with the support of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Film production and development took place on the traditional lands of the Djab Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Jardwadjali, Wadawurrung (Wathaurung), and Woiwurrung peoples. We would like to acknowledge these traditional owners and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
- Copyright with:
- © Wind & Sky Productions 2015.
Project Credits
- Project Acknowledgements:
- Development and filming for this project took place on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, Djab Wurrung, Jardwadjali, Wadawurrung (Wathaurung) and Woiwurrung speaking peoples. The team was also privileged to consult with and to be granted permission to use images and artwork from Taungurung, Yorta Yorta and Gunai/Kurnai speaking peoples. The project team acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands on which we live and work and we pay our respect to their Elders, past and present. Many people worked on this project and helped make it a reality. We thank them all.
- Project Team
- Creative Producers:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Film Director:
- Jary Nemo
- Writing and research:
- Fred Cahir and Lucinda Horrocks
- Cast:
- Fred Cahir, Uncle Bryon Powell, Jamie Lowe, Rick Nelson
- Acknowledgments by Institution
- Art Gallery of Ballarat:
- Peter Freund, Julie McLaren, Gordon Morrison
- Australian National Maritime Museum:
- David Payne
- Ballarat Mechanics Institute:
- John Blythman, Rosemary McInerney
- Brambuk National Park and Cultural Centre:
- Uncle Frank Abrahams, Aunty Vicki Abrahams, Jeremy Clark, Jamie Lowe
- BrainTrain:
- Bill Horrocks, Heather Horrocks
- Castlemaine ANTaR:
- Rick Nelson, Paulette Nelson, Felicity Say, Vic Say
- Cummerugunja Local Aboriginal Land Council:
- Rebecca Atkinson
- Culture Victoria:
- Dimity Mapstone, Eleanor Whitworth, Tanya Wolkenberg
- Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation:
- Barbara Huggins
- Dunolly Museum:
- John Tully
- Federation University Australia:
- Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, John McDonald
- Footscray Community Arts Centre:
- Uncle Larry Walsh
- Gunaikurnai Land & Waters Aboriginal Land Corporation:
- Grattan Mullett
- Koori Heritage Trust:
- Nerissa Broben, Charlotte Christie
- Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust:
- Leonie Cameron, Aunty Lorraine Sellings, Jeanette Tasker
- Museum Victoria:
- Richard Gillespie, Kimberley Moulton, Melanie Raberts, Miriam Troon
- Public Record Office Victoria:
- Lauren Bourke, Tracey Manallack
- Sovereign Hill Museums Association: Gold Museum, Ballarat:
- Brett Dunlop, Roger Trudgeon
- State Library of Victoria:
- Maxine Briggs
- Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation trading as Wadawurrung:
- Uncle Bryon Powell, John Young, Simone Werts
- Wind & Sky Productions:
- Lucinda Horrocks, Jary Nemo
- Wurundjeri Tribe Land and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council Incorporated:
- Uncle Colin Hunter, Karmen Jobling, Aunty Alice Kolasa, Uncle Bill Nicholson, Charley Woolmore
- Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation:
- Aunty Janice Muir, Aunty Elsie Bailey, Ruben Baksh
- Commissioned by:
- Culture Victoria
- Funded by:
- Creative Victoria
- Copyright with:
- Content Producers and Collection Holders.
The Howard Family – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
Info
Client: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
Produced: 2014
Length: 4.07 minutes
Ella Hancock is 98 years old and she is one degree of separation from Eureka. Her grandfather Patrick Howard fought in the stockade. Patrick Howard was arrested after the uprising, but escaped trial because his gun wasn’t loaded. Celebrated musician Shane Howard is Patrick Howard’s great-grandson. In this short film Shane and Ella reflect on Patrick’s involvement at the Stockade, the factors which drove Patrick to migrate from Ireland and fight for his rights on the Ballarat goldfields, and they discuss the legacy of the Eureka Stockade today.
Wind & Sky Productions produced four short digital stories for the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka as part of the commemoration of the 160th Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. The films are on permanent display in the Museum touchtable exhibition.
Screenings
On permanent display, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Ballarat.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and researched by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Featuring:
- Ella Hancock and Shane Howard
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Archival images courtesy of:
- Ballarat and District Irish Club, Ella Hancock, J J Harrison, Gold Museum, Ballarat, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, The Public Records Office of Victoria, The State Library of Victoria.
- With thanks to:
- Catriona Banks, Clare Gervasoni, Adele Howard, Clair Muir and Teresa O’Brien.
- Commissioned by:
- Jane Smith, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka.
- Funded by:
- Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.
- Acknowledgement:
- We give thanks to the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the Eureka Stockade took place, and pay respect to their Elders past and present.
- Copyright with:
- © M.A.D.E. Ballarat 2014. All rights reserved.
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