Wind & Sky ProductionsJuly is Documentary Month: Harbour Lights at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021
Wind & Sky’s short documentary ‘Harbour Lights’ is part of the 2021 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) screening at the Cinema Nova Carlton and virtually in July.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 Lockdowns in Victoria in July, August and September 2021, the in-cinema screening was cancelled and the festival went online in October.
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Wind & Sky Documentaries on the Big Screen at Federation Square
Thanks to our friends at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, two Wind & Sky docos are screening at the outdoor Big Screen at Federation Square in Melbourne’s CBD. Rug up because it’s a wintry week ahead, and come along to see a film before enjoying the Melbourne nightlife!
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I Circle Around the Studio: Collaboration of Women Audio Artists
In March 2019 Wind & Sky Productions producer Lucinda Horrocks created a soundscape in collaboration with composer/performer George Williams and vocalist Sharon Turley.
Recorded, created and performed by women, ‘I Circle Around the Studio’ explores the multilayered experience of women as artists.
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Shining a Light on Untold Women’s History
Few Melbournians realise that the Mission to Seafarers, that odd-looking building with the dome and the bell tower at the Docklands end of Flinders Street, has a story reaching back to World War One and early 20th century Melbourne harbourside life.
A new documentary ‘Harbour Lights’ tells the story of a remarkable and forgotten group of women connected to the origins of that building.
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‘Out of the Closets’ Part of Women in Film Festival
We are delighted to announce that ‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ has been selected to screen at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2018.
This annual festival endeavours to promote the many talented women who work within all areas of film production, and to encourage and inspire women with creative aspirations to pursue their passions with confidence.
‘Out of the Closets, Into the Streets’ was written and produced by two women and one man: Kathie Mayer, Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo. It was directed by Jary Nemo and features archival footage edited and shot by Barbara Creed.
Wind & Sky Productions has a proud track record of gender equality in production and it is brilliant that our talented creative women are being recognised in this festival.
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Savoy Ladies Group Wins a Sunny Award
Wind & Sky Productions is the proud recipient of a Sunny Award for Best Film Cultural Diversity for the short documentary ‘The Savoy Ladies Group’. The award ceremony was held on Sunday the 17th April 2016 as part of the Setting Sun Short Film Festival at the beautiful Sun Theatre, Yarraville.
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Savoy 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.
Event: Eureka Stories
Stories of Eureka
On December 3 1854, in Ballarat, a group of gold miners clashed with the local authorities in a bloody encounter which influenced the course of democracy in Australia.
We’ve been busy at Wind & Sky creating four digital stories about people connected to the Eureka Stockade for the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E Ballarat).
Come help us celebrate the launch of our films and the 160th anniversary of Eureka. There are a series of events on the actual anniversary day the 3rd of December and on the weekend of the 6-7 December.
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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.
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