Wednesday 24 February - Session Three 8.45pm

Introduction and Q&A featuring special guest Jonathan Stack with first filmmaker Elizabeth Tadic

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The Farm:  Angola USA

Directors Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau
USA / 1998 / 88mins / Admission 18+

 

In 1997, Jonathan Stack spent a year shooting inside Angola Prison, Louisiana’s maximum security penitentiary, capturing the reality of six men living - and dying - in one of America’s oldest and largest penal institutions.

By revealing a powerful and universal truth - to err is human and to forgive, divine – The Farm strikes an empathic chord amongst audiences worldwide and has won many of cinema’s top awards, including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, the LA Film Critic’s Award, the New York Film Critic’s Award, an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, 2 Emmys and 4 Emmy nominations.

When first broadcast in the US on A&E, The Farm attracted the largest audience for a documentary in the network’s history.

It has also been broadcast in 15 countries, including Japan, Australia, and throughout Europe, and has been the basis of educational programs throughout the US since.

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World Premiere

Umoja:  Where Women Run Wild 

Director Elizabeth Tadic
2010 / 33mins / Admission 18+

 

Umoja:  Where Women Run Wild tells the amusing and life-changing story of a group of tribal Samburu women in Northern Kenya who reclaim their lives, turning age-old patriarchy on its head.

Some years ago around 600 Samburu women claimed British soldiers raped them. When they returned home, their husbands beat them and cast them out, asserting they had brought shame to their families.

In 1995, several women banded together to establish the village of Umoja [unity], on an unoccupied field in the dry grasslands where no men were to be allowed.

Rebecca Lolosoli, a charismatic and outspoken crusader for women's rights, becomes the matriarch.

These women have rewritten traditional tribal laws, and with a taste for freedom, there's simply no turning back.