OZ DOCS This year’s excellent collection of Oz Docs is a fantastic tribute to our talented local documentary makers. Representatives from the films will be in attendance for a Q&A following the session.
QUEEN OF THE DESSERT
CARNIVAL QUEEN
Dir: Alex Kelly, Australia, 2012, video, 27 min
Dir: Amy Gebhardt, Australia, 2011, HD Cam, 29 min
Queer Star Lady goes out to indigenous communities to engage in an outreach program. She takes her styling business out to remote communities with inspiring results.
Enter the insides of a carnival troupe as a new show is born, Finucane and Smith’s Carnival of Mysteries: mothered by the formidable hand of Melbourne’s esteemed performance artist, Moira Finucane.
THE LALA ROAD
PART ONE: LOVE
Dir: Letitia Lamb, Australia, 2012, HD Cam, 10 min
Dir: Tony Radevski, Australia, 2012, HD Cam, 10 min
Young Chinese lesbians make their way along a difficult path, rejecting traditional ideas about marriage and family to be with the women they love.
Love can be fragile. Love can redeem. Love can be fleeting. For these six men, love has been a torrid and sometimes beautiful journey, convoluted by being gay and HIV positive. Love can be complicated.
FINDING YOUR NICHE
AQUAPORKO! Dir: Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Australia, 2013, HD Cam, 20 min
Dir: Jonathan Duffy and Ryan Coonan, Australia, 2013, DCP, 14 min
Aquaporko! is a story of femme sisterhood, queer community, and radical body politics told through the journey of Aquaporko! the fat femme synchronized swim team, and their journey leading up to the first ever performance of its kind in Melbourne. Colorful and camp, this heartfelt documentary, is overflowing with humor and humanity. Inspiring people of every size to celebrate our bodies in all their glorious diversity.
Follow the journey of local activist Daniel Witthaus, the ‘challenging homophobia guy’, as he travels across regional, rural and remote Australia spruiking his antihomophobia message to the masses.
Throw your legs in the air and wave them like you just don’t care!
BOOKING
DATE
TIME
2165 Mon 18 March 6.00pm
VENUE
ACMI 65