Wind & Sky ProductionsFeatured Projects
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
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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 Savoy Ladies Group
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Produced: 2014
Length: 10:20 minutes
This short documentary follows Rosa, President of the Savoy Ladies Group, as she tells the story of Italians in the North-East, tobacco farming, women, family and friendship.
Every fortnight for thirty years members of the Myrtleford Savoy Ladies Group have met to play tombola, create plays, go on excursions and maintain their Italian heritage. The group was founded in 1983 to combat the social isolation of Italian women tobacco farmers in the Ovens Valley. This film takes an observational look at the group’s modern day activities, through the eyes of Rosa, the group president. In the process the film sheds light on the difficulties faced by post-war Italian women migrants in North-East Victoria, their part in the local agricultural industry and their contribution to a distinctive and unique culture.
The Savoy Ladies Group documentary film was supported through funding from the Australian Government’s Your Community Heritage Program.
Screenings
Setting Sun Short Film Festival, Sun Theatre, Yarraville, 14-18 April 2016.
Museo Italiano (Melbourne Launch), 29 March 2014.
Savoy Club Myrtleford (Myrtleford Launch), 13 March 2014.
Online
The film is free to view online and has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license CC-BY. To watch on YouTube visit https://youtu.be/NrE-XH_kq3s
Awards
Winner, Best Film Cultural Diversity, Setting Sun Short Film Festival 2016
Finalist, Best Documentary Metropolitan, Setting Sun Short Film Festival 2016
Finalist, Best Film Overall Metropolitan, Setting Sun Short Film Festival 2016
Finalist, the Dressmaker Award for Female Filmmakers, Setting Sun Short Film Festival 2016
Credits
- Produced by:
- Samantha Dinning, Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and Edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written by:
- Samantha Dinning and Lucinda Horrocks
- Featuring:
- Rosa Volpe
- Rosa’s Lunch Guests (in alphabetical order) :
- Gabriella Bettio, Franca Cobbe, Silvana Colombara, Pippa Laspina, Kay Maggenti, Anna Elsa Matassoni, Maria Mautone
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Research and Concept:
- Samantha Dinning
- Images courtesy of:
- Rosa Volpe, The Savoy Ladies Group
- ‘Quel Mazzolin Di Fiori’ (traditional) performed by:
- Members of the Myrtleford Savoy Ladies Group, 2013
- With thanks to:
- Paolo Baracchi, Franca Cobbe, Rosa DiFazio, Linley & Colleen Horrocks, Emily Kocaj, Jan Mock, Alexander Parise, Rick Watt, Alpine Shire, Co.As.It Italian Historical Society, the Immigration Museum, Motel on Alpine and the Myrtleford Savoy Sporting Club Inc. A very special thanks to the members of the Myrtleford Savoy Ladies Group, past and present.
- The Savoy Ladies Group documentary film
- is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s Your Community Heritage Program.
- Distribution License:
- This film is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. You are free to share and adapt this work for any purpose under the condition you appropriately credit Wind & Sky Productions, Samantha Dinning Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo as the original creators and copyright owners of the material, include the original film URL http://www.windsky.com.au/savoy-ladies-group/, and indicate if changes were made to the content. For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. All other use requires permission.
- Copyright with:
- © Wind & Sky Productions Pty Ltd, Samantha Dinning, Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo 2014.
Val D’Angri – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
Info
Client: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
Produced: 2014
Length: 4.32 minutes
In late 1972 high school sewing teacher Val D’Angri was asked to hand stitch the Eureka Flag onto a custom built backing. She undertook the labour intensive restoration work over a two week period in May 1973 in the Oddie Gallery, at the Art Gallery of Ballarat (then known as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery). In this short film Val recalls what she felt on seeing the flag for the first time, her emotions on touching and restoring the flag, and the hours of back breaking work it took to finish the project. Val argues that the way the flag was constructed points to women having made it. She speculates what life must have been like for those rebellious women in the Spring of Eureka, November 1854.
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:
- Val D’Angri
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Artwork:
- ‘The Three Gums’ © Hans Heysen/Licensed by Viscopy, 2014
- Archival images courtesy of:
- Ballarat City Council, Ballarat Historical Society, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, The Ballarat Courier, The Gold Museum, Ballarat, The National Library of Australia, The State Library of Victoria, Val and Norm D’Angri.
- With thanks to:
- Anne Beggs-Sunter, Norm D’Angri, Rita Cousens, Ursula Diamond-Keith, Andrew Eales, Edith Fry, Peter Freund, Claire Gervasoni, Merrilyn Harlock, Julie McLaren, Gordon Morrison, Claire Muir, Leslee Sullivan, Val Stevens and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
- 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.
Reflections of Flood Recovery
Info
Client: Designscope
Produced: 2012
Length: 4.35 minutes
Links
Lucinda’s blog article about the behind the scenes making of the film.
Reflections of Flood Recovery website.
‘The Gentle Art of Online Storytelling’ ABC Open feature on the film.
In 2010 the rural towns of Clunes and Creswick were inundated by powerful floods, three times. This short film tells a moving story of individual resilience in the wake of disaster.
This project reflecting on the recovery process was part of a celebration of the ending of the Hepburn Health Services’ Flood Recovery Strategy. Hepburn Health Services commissioned a short film based on audio interviews and stills photography, to celebrate and reflect stories of recovery, survival and experiences as told by eyewitnesses and those afflicted by the floods. The short formed a ‘digital keepsake’ for the community, and was the key part of a micro website and was featured in an article by ABC Open. We collaborated with Designscope on this project and the lovely still photography was by Tim Burder.
Credits
- Written and produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Photography by:
- Tim Burder
- Design and art direction by:
- Kim Percy
- Executive Producers:
- Kim Percy and Morgan Williams
- Featuring:
- Cathy Buckland, Mavis Carson, Maxwell Carson, Jane Clarke, Graeme Cooper, Patrick Curran, Joyce Head, Ron Head, Sandra McHarg, Abby Sheldon, Lesley Tydeman
- Music by:
- Gary Whelan
- Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- With thanks to:
- Hepburn Health Service Staff, Hepburn Shire Council, Department of Planning and Community Development, Department of Human Services, Thanking the communities for sharing their photographs.
- Financed by:
- State Government Victoria, Hepburn Health Service, Hepburn Shire Council.
- Distribution license:
- Free to distribute online under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC conditions, all other use requires permission.
- Copyright with:
- © Wind & Sky Productions Pty Ltd and Designscope Pty Ltd 2012.
Living With Climate Change
Living With Climate Change
Info
Client: Brimbank City Council
Produced: 2012
Length: 25.01 minutes
How can we adapt to climate change in Australia? This 25 minute film looks to migrant communities in Melbourne’s west, who are living lives of practical sustainability.
As we struggle to understand what impacts climate change will have on us here in Australia, and how we need to adapt, this film draws inspiration from migrant communities who already know what climate change is like. Commissioned by Brimbank City Council, in Melbourne’s multicultural inner west, the film highlights members of the Burmese, Sudanese, Vietnamese and Indian communities of Brimbank. Based on a broader engagement and research program being conducted by the municipality, we interviewed ten community representatives, telling a positive story of sustainability and change through a series of vignettes. The 25 minute film was produced in collaboration with Designscope.
Credits
- Written and produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- DVD and Graphic Design:
- Kim Percy and Morgan Williams
- Devised by:
- Kath Brackett and Ellen Kessler
- Executive Producers:
- Kath Brackett, Ellen Kessler and Kim Percy
- Featuring:
- Durba Dhiman (Preety), Eric Hakhaw Boilu, Kath Brackett, Kelly Grigsby, Manmohan Singh Shergill, Monica Kanbang, Nyanaguek Jok, Pham, Duyen Anh, Quanh Nguyen, Reverend Daniel Gai Aleu, Venerable Phuoc Tan Thich, Za Tuah Nguri.
- Theme music:
- ‘The Memory of Rain’ Performed by Legless Lizards. Written by Robert Jackson © Robert Jackson 2011.
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- With thanks to:
- Vandana Rana, The Gwuad Family: Marial, Deng, Manulk, George, Nyanden and Helen Gwuad, Pa Hmun, Quang Minh Buddhist Temple, Quang Minh Temple Garden Volunteers, Phu Le for the background music at Cafe U&I, Keilor Park Community Centre, Brimbank City Council Community Planning Unit Staff, Professor John Wiseman, Professor Michael Hamel-Green, Dr Colin Hocking, Joanne McCluskey, Dzemka Civic, Community West and thank you to all those taking part in the PhD research project.
- Film and DVD Production:
- Wind & Sky Productions in collaboration with Designscope.
- Commissioned by:
- Brimbank City Council.
- Thank you to the Wurundjeri people:
- Brimbank City Council and the producers would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people, who are the Traditional custodians of the land on which the film was produced, and pay our respects to their Elders both past and present.
- Distribution license:
- Free to distribute online under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC conditions, all other use requires permission.
- Copyright retained by:
- © Brimbank City Council 2012.
Charles Dickens Performs a Christmas Carol
Did you know that Charles Dickens was a famous performer of his own work, and that he toured the world, keeping audiences spellbound as he acted each character on the stage single-handed?
The Eagle’s Nest Theatre Company asked us to use our documentary approach to tell the story of ‘Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol’, an authentic re-enactment of the Dickens Readings, starring the marvellous Phil Zachariah. The aim was to teach a little bit about Dickens and the Readings, sell the play to theatres, and inspire audiences to attend. We created a series of short films tailored to the needs of the different audiences, which was supplemented by information on the Charles Dickens Performs web site.
About the Show
Info
Client: Eagles Nest Theatre
Produced: 2011
Length: 3.33 minutes
This short film evokes the audience experience of anticipation at a night out at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, overlaid with an otherworldly Victorian feel which matches the ghostly theme of ‘Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol’. Our video unpacks the stage show, provides some performance snippets, gives some background for audiences, and features interviews with director James Adler and star Phil Zachariah. Since being embedded on the Charles Dickens Performs web site the video has been a great resource for the theatre company as they roll out their marketing and promotions for the production each year.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Written, directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Music arranged by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Executive Producer:
- James Adler
- Featuring:
- Phil Zachariah and James Adler
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Sound Assistant:
- Lucinda Horrocks
The Dickens Readings
Info
Eagles Nest Theatre
Produced: 2011
Length: 3.17 minutes
We made use of our interview with Phil Zachariah, and his knowledge of Dickens, for our micro-documentary about the phenomenon of Charles Dickens the performer. While this also acted as a resource for Eagles Nest Theatre in promoting the show, it had an appeal to a broader audience interested in Charles Dickens. The film had success in 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens’s birth, when a Washington Post blog embedded it in an online post noting many things Dickens. Viewing figures steadily increased as the global #Dickens2012 festival began and the world collectively celebrated Dickens.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Written, directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Featuring:
- Phil Zachariah
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Research:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Images by kind courtesy of: The US Library of Congress, Royal Holloway, University of London and Liam Quin, fromoldbooks.org
Other Materials
We also produced a 30-second trailer designed to embed on ticketing sites and several exerpts from the stage play to use as additional marketing collateral to send to theatre buyers worldwide.
Links
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