The Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (SFNFF) celebrates First Nations producers, directors, screenwriters, actors and communities, both within the Shoalhaven and across Australia.
Providing a platform for First Nations Peoples’ voices and stories, through film, it will contribute to the process of truth-telling and help to build understanding amongst non-Indigenous people of the culture, connection to country and resilience of Aboriginal People, and of the issues faced by them.
Dates: 20th, 21st and 22nd September 2024
Venue: Huskisson Pictures, 19 Sydney St Huskisson
DATE
Friday 20 September 2024 5:30 PM – Sunday 22 September 2024 12:30 PM (UTC+10)
PROGRAM
Supported through the Festival’s 6 sessions:
Friday night opening
Opening Night Party at Huskisson Community Centre 5:30pm-6:45pm
Friday evening session 7:00pm
Telling stories of post colonisation resilience using humour and music
Doco: Occupation Native (2017) Trish Morton Thomas (52 mins)
INTERMISSION
Feature film: Sweet As (2021) Jub Clerc (1 hr 27 mins)
Saturday early afternoon 1:40pm
Stories that tell it as it is…the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture
Short film: Nice Coloured Girls (1987) Tracey Moffat (16 mins)
Feature film: Emu Runner (2018) Imogen Thomas (1 hr 35 mins)
Saturday late afternoon 3:40pm
Stories of coming of age between two worlds
Short film: Bluey (2013) Darene Johnson (14 mins)
Feature film: Spear (2015) Stephen Page (1 hr 44 mins)
Saturday evening 7:45pm
Stories told through short films by current generation of Indigenous filmmakers – plus a local treasure…
Short films: The Driver (2020) Elias Rees (4 minutes)
Short films: Flickerfest Indigenous Showcase (1 hr 30 mins)
Sunday early morning 9:00am
Aboriginal activism – first captured on film in 1933, continues until today
Doco: Joe Anderson (1933) (newsreel) (3 mins)
Feature film: Ablaze (2021) (based on White Justice 1946) Tiriki Onus (1 hr 20 mins)
Sunday morning tea with a live performance by a local artist 10:30am – 11:00am
Sunday late morning session 11:00am
Stories of resilience
Doco: My Survival As An Aboriginal (1978) Essey Coffey (49 mins)
Doco: Pills & Powder Milk (2021) Nazareth Alfred (4 mins)
Doco: We Come From The Land (1988) Fabio Cavadini & Mandy King (27 mins) *TBC (Subject to receiving consent)
Doco: We Are Still Here (2021), Aunty Lindy Lawler (5 mins)
Short: Oola-Boola-Woo (2020), Children of Coomaditchie (3 mins)
INTERMISSION
Doco: Still We Rise (2023) John Harvey (60 mins)
