Thursday 25 February - Session Three 9.20pm

Introduction and Q&A featuring special guest Jonathan Stack with first filmmakers Bronwyn Purvis and Telen Rodwell

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Australian Premiere

The Farm: 10 Down

Directors Jonathan Stack and Nancy Novack
USA / 2009 / 98mins / Admission 18+

 

Ten years on, Jonathan Stack goes back inside Angola Prison to reconnect with the characters he profiled in The Farm:  Angola to witness first hand time’s impact on their spirits, their bodies, their sense of hope and purpose.

Have the family members who visited them ten years ago disappeared in time from their lives?

Does their language change as men become increasingly hardened by time?

Do memories of freedom and life on the outside fade with the hope of freedom?

Time moves slowly in Angola, but hope survives. 

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World Premiere

Drive

Directors Bronwyn Purvis & Telen Rodwell
2009 / 55mins / Admission 18+

 

Tasmania, the southern most isolated state of Australia lays claim to the nation's highest rate of road fatality.

Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, crumpled in metal coffins, on lonely rural roads.

Drive is a film about identity and the rites of passage young men face on their journey to adulthood - gaining a driver's license and the legal right to drink alcohol.

Tracing the grief lines from the roadside memorials of all those who have been touched by the deaths of five young men over the past two years, from mothers and girlfriends to the police and tow truck drivers who deal with the remains.

The documentary also encounters a motley group of young skaters who joyously express what it is like to be young and alive and about their own risk-taking on their way to manhood.