Classical and original music performed by Jeremy Cullen.
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NZPC – Decriminalisation of the sex industry in NZ
I have been working with the NZ Prostitutes Collective on a film about the effect of decriminalisation on the sex work community. (Prostitution Reform Act 2003). The project has been funded by The Open Society Institute and is a work in collaboration with NZPC. It will be an international resource for other activists working towards law change and human rights for sex workers.
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Film & Literature Review Board
I have been appointed to the Film & Literature Board of Review for a period of three years. It should be an interesting period of debate and discussion around censorship and ethics.
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Sex Work is Work
I’m working with the NZ Prostitutes Collective on a training resource for other countries, looking at the effect of decriminalisation of sex work in NZ. This has been funded by the Open Society Institute and will be used to assist other sex work communities to affect legislative change in their countries.
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Gordon Crook R.I.P.
On Friday morning, 26 August the Wellington artist Gordon Crook passed away peacefully at Cashmere Hospital in Johnsonville, Wellington. He was 89 – he completed his final show just before being admitted to Mary Potter Hospice – and then spent the last few weeks in the Cashmere Hospital in Johnsonville. Gordon was a wonderful artist, extremely well-read and his conversation was wide-ranging and deep. He loved books, art, gardens, cooking (being an exquisite cake maker in particular) and people with a bit of gossip thrown in for good measure. His life was lived to the full and was an inspiration to us all…in the film he says ‘when I die I shall be going into one of my own gardens…”…may he be happy and content with all the creatures he created around him….and filled with love.
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Portrait of the Artist – Meet the Filmmakers panel
I am moderating a panel today, Sunday featuring three nz filmmakers with documentaries in the 2011 International Film Festival;
Costa Botes (Daytime Tiger) Tony Hiles (Flight of Fancy featuring the artist Michael Smither) and expat Sally Rowe with her film Serving Up Paul Liebrandt.
Come along and hear the inside story of these insightful films about creativity, passion and personalities that are driven by what they love to do….Bergman, Paramount Theatre, Courtenay Place, 2.15 Sunday 31st July.
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The Women from Cambodia
We have started working on a new documentary filming the lives of Cambodian women refugees to New Zealand. We have been working with interviewer/interpreter Niborom Young, who has recorded oral histories of many of the women and continues to work with her community primarily in Wellington.
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Gordon Crook: A Life of Art
Gordon Crook A Life of Art screened Thursday November 18th at 6 pm at the Shoreline Cinema on the Kapiti Coast. View Trailer
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Asylum Pieces – Kathy Dudding’s stunning film available now on DVD!
Kathy Dudding’s documentary, Asylum Pieces is now available on DVD, distributed by executive producer Glenis Giles through OliverGiles Productions.
“I was initially supporting Kathy as an Exec Producer on her film Asylum Pieces, but after she returned from her trip to New York and discovered the very unexpected terminal diagnosis with lung cancer, I stepped up and worked with Kathy to co-produce and see the film completed on time for the New Zealand International Film Festival where it premiered in July 2010.With her stunning essay film, Kathy has made a major contribution to the questions surrounding the use of medication and treatment of the
melancholic and mentally ill, from Asylum era to the present. We have all been touched in some way by mental illness – everyone should see this film – it is a sensitive and insightful social essay shot beautifully and with original music by Plan 9.The film is available for sale from Filmshop and Aro Street Video
Kathy passed away peacefully at the Mary Potter hospice in Newtown on August 21 2010, surrounded by her daughter Amohia and family.
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ANIMFXNZ 10 coming up…
Check out some of the interviews from previous ANIMFXNZ symposia on GoGo Talks. Warren Franklin - who set up Industrial Light & Magic with George Lucas; The Massive guys who brought Concept Art to Wellington in 08, animator and director, John Stevenson and Jeffrey Conrad, Creative Director of American Greeting Cards. More to come…
Thanks to WIFT and ANIMFX for setting up some of the meetings. This years conference starts in November. Programme is available on line now at ANIMFXNZ. -
Festivals over but film goes on…
Hi so the four screenings of Gordon Crook, A Life of Art are over…appreciative audiences across the land…and requests for screenings are coming in. First one will be in Palmerston North at Square Edge. Dates to be finalised. The film has been entered into the Rotterdam Film Festival - so we await their response.
Gordons show is over at Ron Barber Gallery but work can still be purchased from the Stanleys Garden Show from Gilberd Marriot Gallery.
Mervyn Thompson: A Class Act
Thompson wrote the first play about the Women’s Suffrage Movement in New Zealand,
O Temperance, and many other works about working class life in New Zealand.
The Women from Cambodia
The latest project explores personal stories of refugee women in New Zealand from Cambodia, many of whom were forced to work in labour camps suffering deprivation, starvation and the loss of children, husbands and other family members. Niborom Young was an English student in New Zealand when Pol Pot took power and she was became a refugee, being locked out of Cambodia. She later worked in refugee camps on the border of Thailand and Cambodia and met many of the women who now have come to live in New Zealand. Her oral history project has been transcribed by her in Khmer then translated into English. Continue…