Wind & Sky Productions‘Out of the Closets’ Travels to the USA
01 February 2018
‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ has been selected to screen in Philadelphia in the US as part of the Society for Photographic Education Media Festival 2018.
The Media Festival accompanies the Society’s Annual Conference, this year titled ‘Uncertain Times: Borders, Refuge, Community Nationhood.’
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE) has featured a film and video festival of innovative and provocative short documentaries, animation and fiction as part of the Annual Conference since 1995.
We couldn’t be more pleased that ‘Out’ was selected. This will be our first US screening.
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Chinese in Victoria took Many Roads to Fortune
Ballarat, Victoria, 12 December 2017.
Author: Wind & Sky Productions
New film and digital exhibition celebrates Victoria’s Chinese goldrush history
An ambitious online project called Many Roads brings together the collections of eighteen Victorian cultural organisations, both metropolitan and regional, to tell the story of the Chinese on the goldfields of Victoria.
In the 1850s thousands of Chinese journeyed to the fabled goldfields of central, northern , northeastern and western Victoria. ‘The gold was what drew them here,’ says Anita Jack, General Manager of the Golden Dragon Museum and great grand daughter of a goldrush-era Chinese migrant. ‘Here in Bendigo at the peak of the gold rush a quarter were Chinese. The other three quarters were people from America, Europe, New Zealand, all across the world. It was a very multicultural time.’
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Ballarat Writers Festival: Queer Wars, an Interview with Dennis Altman
In a session not to be missed at the Ballarat Writers Festival, Lucinda Horrocks interviews the Australian academic and novelist Dennis Altman AM, one of the world’s most influential writers on sexuality and politics.
In this session Dennis will talk about LGBT rights in a global era, the gay civil rights movement and democracy, and will look back on the era of 1970s gay liberation and the publication of his first influential work Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation.
Where: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, 102 Stawell Street South, Ballarat, Victoria, 3350.
When: Sunday 22nd October, 2:30pm-3:30pm.
Tickets: Festival Day Pass $50/$45/$40 | Festival Weekend Pass $80/$75/$70
Bookings: http://www.ballaratwritersfestival.com/2017-festival/tickets/
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Ballarat Writers Festival: Writing with Pictures: Wind & Sky Documentaries
Wind & Sky Productions is part of the inaugural Ballarat Writers Festival this year with a session on how writing works in modern documentary storytelling.
In this entertaining hour long interview with Mary DeBrett, Lucinda will show some clips of Wind & Sky films and explore where the ‘writing’ fits in to an audio visual storytelling medium.
Where: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, 102 Stawell Street South, Ballarat, Victoria, 3350.
When: Saturday 21st October, 3:30pm-4:30pm.
Tickets: Festival Day Pass $50/$45/$40 | Festival Weekend Pass $80/$75/$70
Bookings: http://www.ballaratwritersfestival.com/2017-festival/tickets/
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What's New
‘Out of the Closets’ Travels to the USA
‘Out of the Closets’ screening in Philadelphia as part of the 2018 SPE Media Festival.
Chinese in Victoria took Many Roads to Fortune
New film and digital exhibition celebrates Victoria’s Chinese goldrush history.
Ballarat Writers Festival: Queer Wars, an Interview with Dennis Altman
Lucinda Horrocks interviews the Australian academic and novelist Dennis Altman AM, one of the world’s most influential writers on sexuality and politics.
Ballarat Writers Festival: Writing with Pictures: Wind & Sky Documentaries
In this entertaining hour long interview with Mary DeBrett, producer Lucinda Horrocks will talk about where the writing fits in to documentary storytelling.