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Doco Club - Bastardy + Cicada
19 April 2010
- Time:
- 7:00pm
- Cost:
-
- Full:
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$10.00
- Concession:
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$5.00
- FTI Members:
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$5.00
In partnership with the Australian Director’s Guild, Screenwest & FTI ‘Doco Club’ has been created as a space for Western Australian documentary lovers to watch, debate and be inspired by films we normally wouldn’t have the chance to see. We have carefully selected our favourite recent documentaries for screening over the next year. At each event there will be live / skype Q&A’s with the filmmakers – giving the audience a unique opportunity to connect with the people behind the programs.
BASTARDY
Jack Charles is a junkie, cat burglar and a regular behind bars – which, as it happens, isn’t such a bad thing. Jack Charles is also an Aboriginal elder, one of Australia’s most
critically acclaimed actors – and, as it happens, he has an amazing story to tell. In 2001 filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson sat down with Jack for the first time, within minutes the
affable and dapper Jack had Amiel’s camera trained squarely on him. For the next seven years Jack revels as the effervescent and endearing star, pausing only when forced to serve
time, a fate he accepts with admirable dignity. “It gives me a rest from burgs, you know. I didn’t have to do it anymore”. The result of Amiel and Jack’s seven years worth of
footage is a lasting friendship, renewed optimism and the feature length documentary Bastardy, a truly inspirational film that has been blowing film festival audiences away.
Bastardy isn’t just profoundly moving but is also intuitively amusing and light hearted – those that catch it will be counting their lucky stars, especially if they see it where everyone should see a great film – the theatre.
Screening with Cicada, Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s short film that premiered as part of the Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight.
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