Wind & Sky ProductionsPast Projects
Val D’Angri – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
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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.
Uncle Bryon Powell – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
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Client: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
Produced: 2014
Length: 4.07 minutes
Uncle Bryon Powell is a Wathaurung Elder. His family can trace its descent to the traditional owners of the land around the Ballarat region. At Wathaurung Corporation, Uncle Bryon maintains links with Ballarat’s Indigenous past and culture through ceremony, education and consultation. The story of Indigenous people during the time of Eureka has not been told, argues Uncle Bryon. In this film Uncle Bryon introduces the undisturbed location of Winter’s Swamp, near Ballarat, which contains remnants of Indigenous inhabitation going back hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. He talks about what life was like for Indigenous people before colonisation and details the resilience and adaptability of Wathaurung people on the goldfields in the face of the challenge to their culture and the transformation of their land.
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.
21 November 2015, Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival (CLIFF)
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:
- Uncle Bryon Powell
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Archival images courtesy of:
- The Gold Museum, Ballarat, The State Library of Victoria, The National Gallery of Victoria, The W.L. Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
- With thanks to:
- Adrian Burrow, Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, Gary Presland, Claire Muir, Hedley Thomson, the Ballarat Environment Network (BEN), the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI), and the Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation.
- 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.
Aunty Marlene Gilson – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
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Client: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
Produced: 2014
Length: 4.19 minutes
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Lucinda’s behind the scenes story ‘Painting Stories – Aunty Marlene Gilson‘
Aunty Marlene Gilson is a Wathaurung (Wadawarrung) Elder living on country in Gordon, near Ballarat. A visual artist who discovered painting later in life, Aunty Marlene’s paintings explore Aboriginal myth and stories of the goldfields. Her work is marked by a naive style which references her Indigenous and European ancestry. She is a descendent of King Billy, an Indigenous tribal leader of the Ballarat region at the time of the Eureka Stockade, and his wife Queen Mary. In this short film Aunty Marlene describes the stories she depicts in her paintings ‘Mount Warrenheip and Eureka Stockade’ (2013) and ‘Life on the Goldfields’ (2014). She talks of life for her ancestor King Billy, the wearing of breast plates, Indigenous women’s skills of basket weaving and textiles, and she speculates on what Indigenous people must have felt at the time of Eureka.
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.
21 November 2015, Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival (CLIFF)
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:
- Aunty Marlene Gilson
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Artwork:
- ‘Mount Warrenheip and Eureka Stockade’ © Marlene Gilson, 2013, ‘Life on the Goldfields’ © Marlene Gilson, 2014.
- Archival images courtesy of:
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat Historical Society, Old Colonists Club, Ballarat, The Gold Museum, Ballarat, State Library of Victoria.
- With thanks to:
- Fred Cahir, Ian Clark, Peter Freund, Clare Gervasoni, Barry Gilson, Deanne Gilson, Gordon Morrison, David Miller, Claire Muir, Janice Newton, Roger Trudgeon, the Old Colonists Club Ballarat, 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.
Online Farm Trials
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Client: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI)
Produced: 2016
Length: 5.54 minutes
Online Farm Trials is a collaborative project putting research knowledge online and linking it to national data, opening up new possibilities for smarter farming and better research.
This short documentary film explores the impact of the Online Farm Trials project from the perspectives of key users and researchers.
Farm trials have been a part of Australian farming for many years. Often run by local grower groups on behalf of agricultural communities, testing is also done around the country by government, research organisations and private industry. On-farm trials and test plot trials respond to the questions and concerns of farmers about specific crops in specific regions. They help farmers improve farming productivity and sustainability.
Up to this point the learning from on-farm and trial research has been limited to regions. It’s not that the results haven’t been available. Hard copy trial results in the form of annual research reports have been distributed to communities and stored on farm bookshelves and in libraries and have been available as a resource to researchers. But in practice it has been difficult to compare learning across regions or across time.
The Online Farm Trials project changes everything by putting farm trial research online in a way that is decision useful to agronomists and growers.
Credits
- Featuring:
- Cam Nicholson, Lisa Miller, Hugh Burbery, Julia Severi, Robert Milne, Xenon Ellis
- With thanks to:
- Troy and Paula Missen, Jon Midwood, Tom McCue, Helen Thompson, Peter Dahlhaus, Paul Feely, Judi Walters, Kirsten McKenna, Zoe Creelman, Gina Kreek and Southern Farming Systems Inc. The Online Farm Trials Project is proudly supported by The Grains Research & Development Corporation.
- Film produced by:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Executive Producer (CeRDI):
- Helen Thompson
- Copyright with:
- © CeRDI 2016.
Reflections of Flood Recovery
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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
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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.
ANDI
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Client: ANDI
Produced: 2012
Length: 5.04 minutes
How should we measure wellbeing as individuals, as communities, and as a nation? The ANDI initiative urges us to start talking about the true meaning of progress.
In this short film, five high-profile Australians argue that our nation’s tendency to rely on economic indicators as default measures of success means we fail to take into account issues like sustainability, justice, happiness, health and equality, which are also important in defining our nation’s progress. The Australian National Development Index (ANDI) project is a civil society initiative which aims to create a better measure of progress. To promote ANDI, and to prompt financial support, we interviewed Tim Costello, Samah Hadid, Simon McKeon, Fiona Stanley and Don Henry. Each interviewee speaks persuasively from their own perspective, and they send out a call to action for partners to get behind ANDI in whatever way they can.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Additional footage by:
- Elisabeth Chester
- Original music by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Executive Producers:
- Regina Lane and Mike Salvaris
- Featuring:
- Tim Costello, Samah Hadid, Don Henry, Simon McKeon, Fiona Stanley.
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- With thanks to:
- Regina Lane, Mike Salvaris, World Vision Australia, Macquarie Group Melbourne, The Australian Conservation Foundation, The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Maribyrnong City Council, The Happy River Cafe, Nick Matteo, Melinda Price and Gwen Right.
- Financed by:
- The Australian Conservation Foundation, Uniting Justice Australia, Foundation for Young Australians, Wind & Sky Productions.
- 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 Pty Ltd 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
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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
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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.
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David Scott Memoir Project
David Scott, a pioneer in social justice, welfare, and the environment.
David Scott Memoir
David Scott was a distinguished Australian and a welfare sector pioneer. As a Committee took on the task of preparing his memoirs for publishing, we were commissioned to provide story advice, improve the narrative structure, edit early drafts and conduct research interviews to address gaps. David’s story encompasses the Great Depression, the Pacific War, NGO activism and overseas aid in the ‘60s and ‘70s, East Timor, land care in the ‘80s, and the crushing economic fundamentalism of the ‘90s. This project was an opportunity for us to apply our storytelling expertise to a different medium, and was the chance to work with a very great Australian. The memoir will be published in 2013.
Natural Resource Management Planning Portal
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Client: Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI)
Produced: 2016
Length: 6.55 minutes
The Landcare Groups in the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority region are trialling a planning model which could revolutionise how communities work together to care for our environment.
This short documentary film explores the impact of the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Planning Portal project from the perspectives of key users and researchers.
For nearly thirty years community volunteers in Landcare Groups have been looking after their local environment – cleaning up creeks and wetlands, managing weeds, erosion, salinity, looking after flora and fauna, generally caring about the health of their home.
Landcare Groups form their own local plans and priorities regarding weeds, water, soil health, pests and other categories, and apply for government, corporate or community funding to keep their work going. Together with the larger umbrella organisations the Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs), Landcare Groups form a vital part of the network of volunteer and institutional organisations taking care of the land, water and biodiversity of the regions.
The NRM Planning Portal, being piloted in the Corangamite CMA district, enables Landcare networks and their Catchment Management Authority partners to share information about past works and projects and to come up with joint priorities which have the best potential for funding. The Portal centres around the needs of Landcare Networks to develop a Local Catchment Plan and helps them do so by making lots of relevant planning information available to assist in identifying priorities (self determined, eg ‘weeds’, ‘pests’, ‘salinity’, ‘erosion’, for instance ) and presenting these visually on a map. These priorities can be compared with regional, state and national priorities to explore areas of intersection and best matches for funding.
Credits
- Featuring:
- Chris Pitfield, Jen Clarke and Robert Milne
- Photographs courtesy of:
- The Woady Yaloak Catchment Group
- With thanks to:
- Evan and Suzanne Lewis, Cam Nicholson, Gavan Mathieson, Peter Dahlhaus, Birgitta Hansen, Helen Thompson, Andrew MacLeod and The Woady Yaloak Catchment Group. The NRM Planning Portal is proudly supported by The Corangamite Catchment Management Authority.
- Film produced by:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Executive Producer (CeRDI):
- Helen Thompson
- Copyright with:
- © CeRDI 2016.
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