Orphan Boy
(2004 / 4 mins / Animation/Aust.)
Directors: Shamus Hoare, James Armstrong & Andy Lewis (Gozer Media)
Cultural Direction: Julie Narndal, Marlene Burrunali, Rose Nabobbob & Grace Nawirridj.
Producer: Gozer Media
Flip Flotsam
(2004 / 26 minutes / documentary/ USA)
Directors + Producers: Etienne Oliff & Lucy Bateman
Narrator: Ian Mgagna
Music: Richard Blair Diphant
Sound: James Snowden & Gavin Marshall
Flip-flops!
From the factory floors of downtown Mombasa, this colorful footwear transports us to the ancient Swahili island of Lamu. Cheap, cheerful, practical and popular, they are everywhere; aboard dhows and donkeys, bearing loads and left dormant on the doormats. Worn-in, worn-out, and discarded at the mercy of the Indian Ocean, their story continues.
The Orphan Boy is an animated version of a traditional dreamtime story describing what happens when a young boy's crying wakes the Rainbow Serpent from her sleep. This story belongs to the Kunwinjku People of western Arnhemland, Australia. The students from Namarrkon Class planned and created the animation, as part of a class project, with visiting animators from Gozer Media.
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Sadaa E Zan (Voices of Women)
(2003 / 70 minutes / documentary/ USA)
Director, Producer, Cinematographer & Editor: Renee Bergan
Filmed in March 2002, Sadaa E Zan (Voices of Women) collects the voices of Afghan women living in Kabul and Northern Pakistan. These brave women of all ages recount their struggles and victories through the fighting, poverty, rape and seclusion wrought by 23 years of war. Whether these atrocities were caused by the Soviet Invasion, the Civil War or the extremist Taliban, women were always the first victims.
