Wind & Sky ProductionsSavoy Ladies in the Setting Sun
Come along to the glorious art deco Sun Theatre in Yarraville to watch our film The Savoy Ladies Group.
Wind & Sky Productions is pleased to announce that ‘The Savoy Ladies Group’ is screening as part of the Setting Sun Short Film Festival at the Sun Theatre, Yarraville, on Saturday the 16th April.
The 10 minute 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.
Where: Sun Theatre, 8 Ballarat Street, Yarraville
When: 4:30 pm, Saturday the 16th April.
Book tickets online or call 03 3962 0999.
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The Savoy Ladies Group
Info
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.
The History of the Savoy Ladies Group
By Samantha Dinning.
Rural women in Australia have a long history of collectivity, of joining together to face problems, to offer support and to provide service to their communities.
In a small sub-Alpine pocket of North-East Victoria, among ancient gum forests and granite rock, a group of women have offered vital friendship and support to each other every fortnight for the past 30 years. Comprised of women with Italian heritage based in the Myrtleford district, The Savoy Ladies Group, has been, and today is, an important part of a community that has faced both prosperity and hardship. Their story is one of friendship and solidarity and is an example of the strength of both migrant communities and women in rural Australia.
Savoy Ladies Group Film Launch – Media Release
25 February 2014
The Italian heritage of the women of North-Eastern Victoria is celebrated with the launch of a short documentary film produced by Wind & Sky Productions.
The ten minute film ‘The Savoy Ladies Group’ follows Rosa Volpe, the group’s president, as she tells the story of Italians in the North-East, tobacco farming, women, family and friendship.
Community Chef Case Study
NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE
These two films tell of the challenges, risks and benefits in taking a collaborative approach to community service delivery using the example of innovative delivered meals facility Community Chef.
Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA), in their role as part of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) commissioned us to create a series of films which would bring their written case study of the Community Chef facility to life. Our challenge was to take the sometimes dry material and to transform it into a story. We wanted also to show the challenges and hurdles the project faced in a truthful light, without diminishing the innovation and true achievement it represented.
Film 1: The Community Chef Story
Founding CEO of Community Chef Hayden Raysmith and case study researcher Mark McKenzie-McHarg (background) during the filming of our interview.
Info
Client: LGMA and ACELG
Produced: 2013
Length: 4.30 minutes
Community Chef is an innovative food production facility in Altona, Victoria. Jointly owned by 21 local councils, Community Chef makes low-cost, high-quality and nutritious food for elderly, vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the community. Run as a social enterprise with the goal of supporting its workforce and helping the community, and built to a radical new design which is ultra-efficient and more sustainable, the facility could easily have never been built. This short film explains what Community Chef is and the unique factors which led to its development.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Executive Producer:
- Angela Zivkovic
- Featuring:
- Joe Ciccarone, Bill Jaboor, Hayden Raysmith
- Food Facility Production Staff Featured:
- Akot Bol Akot, Zora Dimovska, Ha Huynh, Thuong Huynh, Khames Jumma, Kuan Kuan, Leigh Mattsson, Craig Menezes, Prakash Patel, Anna May Roque, Gurmeet Singh, Kartik Subramanian, Marlynz Tiamzon, Paul Valencia, Thuy Vo
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviewer:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- With thanks to:
- Jo Bomm, Mai Ling Wong, Emma Populin, Sumith Fernando and all the staff at Community Chef, Kerry Hewson, Brimbank City Council, Mark McKenzie-McHarg, and John Ravlic, Local Government Managers Australia
- Commissioned by and produced for
- Local Government Managers Australia on behalf of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
- Distribution License:
- Free to distribute online under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC conditions, all other use requires permission
- Copyright with:
- © ACELG/LGMA and Wind & Sky Productions Pty Ltd Pty Ltd 2013.
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