Arts Monday 4th March – Women in Film
This coming Friday is International Womens Day and to celebrate my focus on Arts Monday this week is Women in Film!
It’s the World of Women in Cinema (WOW) Film Festival this week and several of my guests are involved with the Festival.
Tamara Popper is the WOW Film Festival Director – Tam will be sharing with Eastside all the fantastic events happening at Dendy Opera Quays, Parliament House, AFTRS, The Vanguard and Dendy Newtown as part of WOW. She also updates us on some of the gorgeous films that will be screening!
PODCAST: Tamara Popper – WOW Film Festival Arts Monday Interview
https://www.wift.org/wow/
Nicolette Boaz is the Composer for SHOW ME THE MAGIC (Screening at AFTRS as part of WOW Film Festival Friday 8th March) – discusses her creative process with Eastside.
Nicolette has worked on many documentaries mainly those with a social conscience. However, world funk remains a special passion: mixing the traditional with contemporary musics. She began to learn piano when she was just four. For 20 years she has composed for all manner of mediums and taught music to children, teenagers and tertiary level students. The degree in Contemporary Music where she was a distinction average student, majored in composition & Aboriginal studies where she topped her year and was awarded the Gungil Jindaba prize.
PODCAST: Nicolette Boaz – Arts Monday Interview
https://nicoletteboaz.com/magic
Also joining us…
Erica Harrision – Writer of A Cautionary Tale
A Cautionary Tail is an animated short film about a girl born with a tail that expresses her emotions. Starring Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Barry Otto, the film is animated by a world-class team from Happy Feet Two and features an original score by Michael Yezerski, composer for the Academy Award-winning short, The Lost Thing. A dark, funny fable for children and adults alike, the story is told using a beautiful collage of 3D animated characters and hand-made miniature sets.
Written by Erica Harrison, directed by Simon Rippingale and produced by Pauline Piper, A Cautionary Tail will debut at film festivals in 2013. The picture book will be published by Penguin Books.
PODCAST Erica Harrison – A Cautionary Tale. Arts Monday Interview
https://acautionarytail.com/
Monica Davidson – a film maker and mentor, who’ll be talking with us about her new film HANDBAG
Monica has been making documentaries since 1989, when she directed her first 16mm short Conformity. Through her production company Twoshotmedia she has specialised in doco-style work for the community, NGO and government sector since 1994. Her clients include the NSW ICAC, Autism Spectrum Australia and Learning + Teaching Scotland. Monica also makes her own documentaries through Girlhouse Films, including the short film Lesbians on the Loose, which debuted at Melbourne Queer Film Festival in 2007. Girlhouse has several docos on the slate, including the feature length exploration of the “fag hag” phenomenon called Handbag. Monica is a regular guest lecturer on the business of creativity at AFTRS and NIDA, and wrote the book Freelancing For Australians for Dummies. She is the proud mum of three daughters, a lover of pink champagne, and a devotee of the gentle art of pub karaoke.
https://www.handbagthemovie.com/
And finally Valerie Bader (Actor – BLACK & WHITE & SEX) talks to us about her involvement in this ground breaking film which will screen in part of the Seen & Heard Festival – which is also celebrating Women in Film this week.
Valerie Bader’s work spans theatre, film and television over several decades. Valerie is perhaps best known for her theatre work, which includes: Morning Sacrifice; Falsettos; Summer Rain; Darlinghurst Nights; King of Country (Sydney Theatre Company); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Dinkum Assorted (Melbourne Theatre Company); Secret Bridesmaids Business and Competitive Tenderness (Playbox Theatre); Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare Company); Venetian Twins; Tartuffe; The Winters Tale, and The Golden Age (Nimrod); Entertaining Mr Sloane (State Theatre of South Australia); and Barmaids for Belvoir St Theatre, Deckchair and Hit Productions. Valerie has also appeared regularly in the Wharf Revue for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Her television work includes Come in Spinner; True Believers, and roles in All Saints; Murder Call and GP. She had a major role in the cult comedy film hit Crackers and also appeared in the first and second series of East Of Everything.