by GREG KING The Other Film Festival is a biennial festival showcasing new cinema by, with and about people with disability. One in five people experience some sort of disability but we rarely see these kinds of stories or experiences in the cinema. The 6th Other Film Festival screens films about the experience of disability from around the world, with features and short films. There are also a range of talks and …
THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL – interviews with Rick Randall, Tommy Edison
by GREG KING The Other Film Festival is a celebration of diversity, and is a film festival featuring new cinema by, with and about people with a disability. It screens at the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Kenneth Myer Building from December 3-7. To find out more about this year's program, Greg spoke to festival director Rick …
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SONS AND MOTHERS – interview with Christopher Houghton
by GREG KING One of the films screening at the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is the intimate and moving documentary Sons And Mothers. It tracks the Mens Ensemble Theatre group in Sydney as it works with a group of mentally handicapped men to rehearse and stage a show that acts as a love letter to their mothers. Director Christopher Houghton uses a verite style to observe the process over the course of 18 …
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