Coorong, SA April 2013
Media Release April 21, 2013
‘Tom Trevorrow passes away’
It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Mr Thomas Trevorrow at the age of 58 years from a heart attack at his office at Camp Coorong, Meningie.
Mr Trevorrow was a strong and proud Ngarrindjeri man and a leading advocate for Aboriginal Rights in Australia. He worked throughout his life to better the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and to support the advancement and recognition of the Ngarrindjeri People. With his wife Ellen, Tom worked for 30 years to develop program’s like the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association and Camp Coorong that fostered and supported Ngarrindjeri culture, arts and tradition, such as weaving. Tom shared with Ellen a commitment to enriching the life of the Ngarrindjeri community and ensured this focus was integral to the development of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He worked closely alongside his brother, Mr George Trevorrow and his Ngarrindjeri brother, Mr Mathew Rigney.
Tom Trevorrow was highly respected by all for his wisdom and insight into Aboriginal matters and a key leader in advancing Indigenous issues. His contribution to asserting the position of Aboriginal People and its proper relationship to Governments and non-Indigenous people was significant at state and national levels. His reputation as an Indigenous leader and educator was internationally recognised. He was a sought after speaker by political leaders at all levels of government, by universities, local councils and community organisations. Mr Trevorrow was highly respected for his spiritual and cultural life. He was a person of great honesty and personal integrity. He will be sadly missed by many people.
Tom Trevorrow believed strongly that the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people needed healing. He felt that the government did not consistently act in a meaningful or respectful manner in its dealings with Indigenous People. This was particularly the case when issues of power and control of government were being challenged by Indigenous People. Mr Trevorrow believed that the original promises of a just settlement in the 1836 Letters Patent for South Australia needed to be followed through by the State Government and that a treaty needed to be negotiated between Indigenous People and the State Government. He thought that a treaty would be a powerful healer of the pain felt by Aboriginal People in their daily lives and would provide justice to those who had passed without knowing it, and provide a proper platform for those Indigenous People living in the future.
FUNDING PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Ngarrindjeri Elder Tom Trevorrow
Click the link to watch – Tribute to Tom Trevorrow
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Tom Trevorrow was a highly respected Ngarrindjeri man. He worked endlessly and tirelessly to advance Ngarrindjeri interests, whether this was as a group of people or for individual Ngarrindjeri people. He was Manager of Camp Coorong: Race Relations and Cultural Education Centre and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He had a deep cultural understanding of his lands and waters, he knew that the lands and waters need not to be disconnected from the Ngarrindjeri People and he fought hard with governments to make them better understand. He passes with the knowledge that the government does have a better understanding of these issues. He passes knowing his beloved Ngarrindjeri People are strong and have a good base upon which to build their relationships.
Tom Trevorrow will be sadly missed by many people but the work he did throughout his life will continue to influence people’s lives into the future. Our condolences to Tom Trevorrow’s extended family including his uncles and aunties, his brothers and sisters, his wife, Ellen and their children, Thomas, Frank, Bruce, Tanya, Joe, Luke and Hank and his grandchildren.
Media Release Tom Trevorrow 19 April 2013
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The tribute was screened during the funeral ceremony as thousands mourners paid their respects in Meningie, South Australia.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral and farewell ceremonies in Menigie, as we were already booked and paid to be in Melbourne that day – but we said our good-byes to Tom over hours and hours of editing on the tribute. Luke had requested us to produce a tribute video that would serve as a memento of his fathers work and achievements.
We feel privileged to have had the chance to work with Tom for so many years; from Jen’s work with him, Uncle Matt and Uncle George and other Elders on the Hindmarsh Island bridge campaigns in the nineties, to our digital media projects with him over the last 5 years. Beyond his amazing work as an advocate for Indigenous lands right and cross-cultural understanding, Tom also was a visionary leader who early on saw the power of digital media for the Ngarrindjeri communities. Tom, your voice will be thoroughly missed.
Jen, Carl, Johanis, Jesse and Felix from Change Media
Leeton, NSW Oct 2013
CHALLENGE:
The Change Media team will work with the Leeton Shire in the second collaborative workshop about binge drinking, as part of the Leeton Shire Council’s Bidgee Binge campaign, supported by the Australian Government. The aim for the 4-day workshop is to co-create another 30-45-sec TV commercial with young people from the region, to raise awareness about the issues around excessive alcohol consumption.
The workshop is part two of our two year collaboration with the Leeton Shire Council and Western Riverina Arts to respond to the culturally acceptance of binge drinking. Last year’s collaboration created a powerful media message to be screened on WIN TV to an audience of over 72,000 people in the Riverina. The Change Media team also produced a funky 15-min behind-the-scenes documentary and a 2-min web-only version of the TV commercial, which you can watch, right now! Don’t be That Guy – click the links above to start watching!
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Leeton Shire Council and its Bidgee Binge Project, supported by the Australian Government; Western Riverina Arts and Leeton’s Roxy Theatre; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Don’t be That Guy
Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – 45 sec TVC.
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Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – Extended Version.
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Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – Behind the Scenes Documentary TVC.
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OUTCOMES:
During part 1 of this 2-year collaboration, we worked with 15 participants aged 12-16 years] to develop a creative concept for a effective TV commercial, including an engaging narrative, catch phrase / slogans, storyboards and visual style. All participants trained in acting techniques, basic camera work, screen language, editing, and were part of running and managing a professional shoot alongside our Change Media crew. We used our new Canon 5D Markiii HDSLR kit for the first time, with amazing cinematic results. And on top of that, the behind-the-scenes documentary was mostly shot by three 12-year old participants, who had a keen eye for bloopers!
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! The TVC will launch on WIN TV on the Channel 9 network across the NSW Riverina region early this summer.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
We went through an amazing process with the youth team, looking at the best examples of alcohol-awareness videos globally, with the ambitious aim to match them during a 4-day workshop… The ongoing discussions on what binge drinking is, how it affects people and why people do it, was an incredible experience to be part of. The team co-created all aspects of the narrative with us and went through enormous efforts during a full day shoot of 30-odd scene set ups. We were very impressed with the professionalism of the teenagers – thanks again for sharing! We recorded some of the contributions during interviews and daily feedback sessions, as part of our performative evaluation, check out the amazing ‘Don’t be That Guy – behind-the-scenes’ documentary!
Coorong, SA Dec 2012 – Feb 2013
CHALLENGE:
The Change Media team partnered with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority in association with the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to produce a collaborative community-driven documentary about the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters and The Living Murray Initiative’s ICON sites during a four day capacity building workshop in Dec 2012 and edit process in Jan-Feb 2013 with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.
FUNDING PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Produced in association with the South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, and the Murray Darling Basin Authority.
Flow – Life Giving Lands and Waters
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OUTCOMES:
Our crew worked with 12 scientists selected by DEWNR and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, to address a series of issues about managing the River Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong. Over 4 days we investigate the different western scientific and economic approaches, in comparison with Ngarrindjeri knowledge and cultural practice shared by their elders, and find out how both sides can work together for a better understanding of the fragile environment of the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The 26min documentary is available on DVD now. DEWNR will use it for screenings at community events such as the World Wetlands Day, distribute copies to the Murray Darling Basin Authority and other organizations, and they also planning a joint launch together with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
The film has already triggered some interesting responses, a researcher from Flinders University said the film sets a new benchmark for collaborations between Indigenous communities and government departments, especially on the contentious issue of water and land management and related cultural rights.
We also have been asked to co-present Flow at the World Indigenous Network conference in Darwin in May 2013.
The Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority will use the documentary also as part of their Native Title claim, as it provides supporting evidence of their ongoing cultural connection to their land and waters. If our work can make a contribution on this level, then may be not all is lost…
Regional Arts Australia Conference, SA Goolwa Oct 2012
CHALLENGE:
The Change Media team traveled to Goolwa for the 2012 ‘Kumuwuki/ Big Wave’ Regional Arts Australia conference to produce a series of short, collaborative documentaries during a four day workshop with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.
The Change Media crew worked together with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team to produce three distinct keynote videos, each presenting a slightly different angle on respect, resilience and reconciliation, with a challenge for the audience to re-frame the colonial mindset. For each of the four days the team had to shoot, edit and screen a new 5 minute mini-doco, presented in front of over 500 conference participants every morning. The high octane and very creative production was a great experience, with everyone really learning the true meaning of deadline pressure!
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Australia Council for the Arts; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Kumwuki conference – Regional Arts Australia; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Reframing Culture
‘Reframing Culture’
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‘Reframing Culture – Trailer’
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OUTCOMES:
The Kumuwuki conference was held over four days in Goolwa to showcase various presentations from artists across Australia. Change Media’s presentations focused on indigenous media literacy and the power of storytelling in a modern and increasingly digitized world. For the workshops, titled ‘Surfing on Country – Surfing on Culture’ [which was a nod to the Kumuwuki/ Big Wave theme of the conference], our Artistic Director, Jennifer, came up with the concept of using a colonial frame.
The team used this storytelling device to invite Ngarrindjeri Elders and conference participants to come up with ideas and creative visions to re-frame Australia’s colonial mindset. A great prop to get people thinking and talking, and to engage in an artistic and political discussion about how we can best re-frame the argument together, as part of a push for reconciliation…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
As many conference participants requested copies of the documentaries, please contact us for details.
We will arrange for a community screening in the Coorong in early December and present the film to festivals and conferences.
On Nov 8th we showed the 2min trailer to over 150 delegates at the Co-Creative Media Forum at the Australian Centre for Moving Image ACMI – lots of people commented and referred it the clip later in their presentations!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
The team received huge applause at each screening and lots of fabulous comments during the conference, often hollered across the streets in Goolwa – we believe our concept of feeding work straight back into the conference was a great success, even though at the cost of 3 sleepless nights, to have a 5min film ready for the conference key note each morning at 9am. The week after the conference, the completed three short films have now been combined into one 18-min documentary, ‘Reframing Culture’.
Leeton, NSW Sep 2012
CHALLENGE:
The Change Media team traveled to Leeton Shire for a collaborative workshop about binge drinking, as part of the Leeton Shire Council’s Bidgee Binge campaign, supported by the Australian Government. The aim for the 4-day workshop was to co-create a 45-sec TV commercial with 15 young people from the region, to raise awareness about the issues around excessive alcohol consumption.
The workshop formed part of a two year collaboration with the Leeton Shire Council and Western Riverina Arts to respond to the culturally acceptance of binge drinking. This year’s collaboration created a powerful media message to be screened on WIN TV this summer to an audience of over 72,000 people in the Riverina. The Change Media team also produced a funky 15-min behind-the-scenes documentary and a 2-min web-only version of the TV commercial, which you can watch, right now! Don’t be That Guy – click the links above to start watching!
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Leeton Shire Council and its Bidgee Binge Project, supported by the Australian Government; Western Riverina Arts and Leeton’s Roxy Theatre; Tallstoreez Productionz.
Don’t be That Guy
Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – 45 sec TVC.
If your device can’t play the clip, click here to watch it on Vimeo.
Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – Extended Version.
If your device can’t play the clip, click here to watch it on Vimeo.
Click the link to watch - Don’t be That Guy – Behind the Scenes Documentary TVC.
If your device can’t play the clip, click here to watch it on Vimeo.
OUTCOMES:
During part 1 of this 2-year collaboration, we worked with 15 participants aged 12-16 years] to develop a creative concept for a effective TV commercial, including an engaging narrative, catch phrase / slogans, storyboards and visual style. All participants trained in acting techniques, basic camera work, screen language, editing, and were part of running and managing a professional shoot alongside our Change Media crew. We used our new Canon 5D Markiii HDSLR kit for the first time, with amazing cinematic results. And on top of that, the behind-the-scenes documentary was mostly shot by three 12-year old participants, who had a keen eye for bloopers!
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! The TVC will launch on WIN TV on the Channel 9 network across the NSW Riverina region early this summer.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
We went through an amazing process with the youth team, looking at the best examples of alcohol-awareness videos globally, with the ambitious aim to match them during a 4-day workshop… The ongoing discussions on what binge drinking is, how it affects people and why people do it, was an incredible experience to be part of. The team co-created all aspects of the narrative with us and went through enormous efforts during a full day shoot of 30-odd scene set ups. We were very impressed with the professionalism of the teenagers – thanks again for sharing! We recorded some of the contributions during interviews and daily feedback sessions, as part of our performative evaluation, check out the amazing ‘Don’t be That Guy – behind-the-scenes’ documentary!
Camp Coorong, SA, May 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team ran a 4-day workshop with 6 Ngarrindjeri Working on Country and Heritage Rangers to edit the documentation of the inaugural Indigenous rangers Working on Country Forum, held in April 16-20 2012.
During the 4-day post-production workshop, the Ngarrindjeri rangers trained in how to media manage footage, create a relevant and engaging story line from multiple events and edit them into a 10-minute video.
The workshop also covered basics in post production workflow.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Tallstoreez Productionz
Edit for Working on Country Forum 2012
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The team also created s new peer-produced training video, that will form part of our Indigenous Media Training online resource and will be uploaded by end of May 2012 on our online training tool kit.
Click on the link to watch - Laurie explains how to transfer your footage from SD card to Final Cut – Working on Country.
Click on the link to watch more training clips here.
OUTCOMES:
The edit workshop enabled the Ngarrindjeri team to use latest technology in digital video production, working with SD card HD cameras and record instant training videos about their newly learned skills.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
As a result of the successful edit – the Department of Sustainability was thrilled with the documentary and wants to show it to the Minister!!! – the team is now discussing to take part in Uncle Moogy’s trip to Sydney end of May, to launch the Yuki [the bark canoe] on the Darling Harbour as part of an Indigenous water craft forum held at the Australian Maritime Museum May 30-June 1.
We are also negotiating with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority to invest into professional equipment for the three teams in Murray Bridge, Meningie and Raukkan, to fast track the Ngarrindjeri trainees and enable them to access high-end gear on a weekly basis.
We are confident that if the teams get appropriate support and continue their training with the same enthusiasm they have shown so far, they will be able within the next year to produce their own media and take on professional work.
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Calperum, WoC Forum, April 2012
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team spent five days at the end of April at the inaugural southern Working on Country Forum at Calperum Station just outside of Renmark, SA. The Forum was a national meeting of minds for Indigenous rangers to improve their skills and to make (or maintain) national relationships. Over 120 rangers from SA, NSW, TAS and VIC, gathered to learn about the unique challenges faced by their counterparts, with significance to traditional culture and maintaining our lands and waters.
Change Media was there to document every step of the way, from canoeing, quad bike safety, water quality monitoring, to basket weaving and digital media workshops, and you couldn’t turn a corner at Calperum Station, without seeing the roving media teams gathering pixels.
During the 5-day production the Ngarrindjeri media team trainees learned how to document a major event and take supporting roles in two hands-on training workshops.
They learned advanced skills in film narrative, interview, camera and event coverage techniques.
PARTNERS: This Change Media project was funded through the Australian Government, Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; and the Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; supported by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Australian Landscape Trust; Tallstoreez Productionz
Working on Country Forum 2012
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OUTCOMES:
Change Media founders Jennifer Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell ran two 3-hour workshops during the five-day event, to demonstrate hands-on how the rangers and their organizations can use digital media and set-up small media initiatives in their communities. It became clear to the participants they can share important stories and knowledge for future generations, with some excited rangers even rallying for funding to start their own productions!
Meanwhile, the Change Media trainers and Ngarrindjeri media trainees managed the pressure of covering an event, (dozens of parallel activities you can only shoot once, noisy generators, and sand in your camera’s focus wheel, to name a few!). To increase the challenge, the team also agreed to shoot and collate footage for the Department of Sustainability media kit, (including interviews, overlay and photos) to be delivered midway through the forum.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates!
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
During the edit workshop in May 1-4 at Camp Coorong, the Ngarrindjeri trainees said that shooting a documentary about the Working on Country forum gave them a deeper understanding of Working on Country, as they had to engage with the workshops and knowledge shared on a different level, as media makers and as WoC rangers.
It was brilliant on the job training, from scheduling interviews and events, shooting on the fly, ferrying media from the on-the-field camera teams to HQ editors, to upload, edit and export in under 2 days – short of building a time machine they couldn’t have been more effective…
Murray Bridge, SA, June-July 2011
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team conducted 4x 1-day workshops with Ngarrindjeri Caring For Country and Heritage Rangers at the Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting Depot.
During the production in Murray Bridge, Raukkan and Meningie members of the Ngarrindjeri Ruwe and the Raukkan Caring for Country organizations learned skills in film narrative, interview and editing techniques.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation Raukkan; Ngarrindjeri Heritage Committee; Tallstoreez Productionz
Ngarrindjeri Ruwe – Working On Country
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The team also made several peer-produced training videos, that form part of our Indigenous Media Training online resource.
Click on the link to watch their training clips here.
OUTCOMES:
The project covered storytelling and camera techniques, shooting on traditional heritage locations, interview and event coverage techniques and editing. The resulting 10min film, Ngarrindjeri Ruwe – Working On Country, is available online and will be used by NRC staff for training, recruiting and PR. This project built on the success of the workshops in the last two years.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Stay tuned for updates! This film will be used as training and induction tool for Caring For Country projects in the Coorong and also features as part of our online training resource.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: We have retained several young members from our first groups at Camp Coorong, Meningie, and Talk Kin Jeri in Millicent/Murray Bridge, while gaining new participants from Raukkan and Murray Bridge. All of the team have recorded their own training videos and had hands-on task during the production, including production skills ranging from organizing the shoots, securing interviews with elders and representatives, storytelling, creating digital storyboards, presenting on screen, camera and sound work, uploading and file management, to editing and music production.
Kalangadoo, SA, July 2010
CHALLENGE: Change Media worked with Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Moogy Sumner to document the making of the first traditional Ngarrindjeri / Boandik tree canoe on Boandik country in over 100 years. This evocative documentary is part of an educational River Redgum DVD combining Caring for Country best practice with transmission of traditional culture.
During the production in Kalangadoo [Big Trees in Water] and Millicent members of the Tal-Kin-Jeri group, Indigenous students and community members from across South East SA learned skills in film narrative, interview & editing techniques and experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; South East Natural Resource Management Board; South East Aboriginal Focus Group; Aboriginal Sobriety Group; Millicent High School; Tal-Kin-Jeri Performance group; Tallstoreez Productionz
Film: Moogy’s Yuki (Moogy’s Bark Canoe)
Click on the image above or the link to watch - Moogy’s Yuki – 2min trailer for the half hour documentary.
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You can order your copy of the documentary and River Redgum care DVD here.
We also produced an educational mini-doc with additional Caring for Country interviews:
Click on the link to watch - River Redgum Restoration – a 6min clip, also included on the DVD resource.
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OUTCOMES:
This project built on the success of the first workshop in May 2010. The peer-produced content will form part of the educational Caring For Country resource DVD, available in September 2010 in our online shop.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner has won a Hero Award at the 2010 MyHero International Film Festival, as well as the 2nd Prize for Moogy’s Yuki in the community film category, selected from hundreds of entries worldwide. The South East Natural Resources Management Board is supporting Moogy and Cyril to fly over to Los Angeles to represent the project at the awards ceremonies on November 19th and 20th. Congratulations!
The canoe along with the DVD is on display in Millicent and Mt. Gambier and at the OurMob exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre. The Age and local WIN TV ran stories about the project and we will present the final documentary to ABC or NITV for broadcast.
Check out also our News section for updates on media coverage.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The challenge this session was to shoot and edit a documentary for the South East Natural Resource Management Board, including traditional cultural knowledge about caring for river red gums, making a traditional Ngarrindjeri bark canoe. During the second part of the project, we focused on documentation techniques and the educational narrative after the bark was taken off the tree. Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Moogy Sumner demonstrated how to prepare the canoe, spear-making techniques and then launched the historic Ngarrindjeri bark canoe.
Millicent, SA, May 2010
CHALLENGE: The Change Media Team conducted a production workshop with members of the Tal-Kin-Jeri performance group, Indigenous students and community members from across South East SA to train them in film narratives, interview techniques, editing and media management. The aim was to educate students alongside the production of a DVD about River Red Gum Care, which documents the technique of making a traditional Ngarrindjeri bark canoe by Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Sumner.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; South East Natural Resource Management Board; South East Aboriginal Focus Group; Aboriginal Sobriety Group; Millicent High School; Tal-Kin-Jeri Performance group; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Recording Culture
Click on the link to watch Recording Culture - a 6min peer-produced video, also included on the DVD resource Moogy;s Yuki.
OUTCOMES: The project covered an introduction to working with a client on location, intermediate interview and event coverage techniques and editing. The peer-produced content [the peer-produced film Recording Culture and photo slide show] will form part of the educational Caring For Country River Redgum resource called Moogy’s Yuki, to be delivered August 2010.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Please watch this space for updates. The plan is to exhibit the canoe along with the DVD at the OurMob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre and in Millicent and Mt. Gambier. The Age and local WIN TV already ran stories about the project and we envisage to present the final documentary to NITV and ABC for broadcast.
Check out also our News section for updates on media coverage.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The challenge this session was to shoot and edit a documentary for the South East Natural Resource Management Board, including traditional cultural knowledge of the caring for rivergum trees, making a traditional Ngarrindjeri canoe and shield out of bark, let by Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Sumner. After a great introduction day with over 20 participants, we focused on documentation techniques and educational narrative. Each team member conducted interviews and was part of the canoe-making shoot.
Camp Coorong, SA, May 2010
CHALLENGE: Change Media ran the fifth production workshop with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team to continue their training in film narratives, interview techniques, editing and train-the-trainer methodology. The workshop focused on the editing of the Murrundi Ruwe Pangari Ringbalin ceremonies, shooting of pick-up and and production of training tutorials.
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Currently in Post Production.
Available end of July, 2010
OUTCOMES: The training covered editing of multi-camera footage, shooting pick-ups on location, conducting interviews and creating peer-training video manuals. New team members entered the team and participated in a peer-training introduction to camera and editing basics. The shooting of pick-ups for the Murrundi documentary took place at the Murray River barrages and in Meningie.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS: Please watch this space for updates.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The team’s challenge for this session was to continue the edit of the ambitious river ceremony and water crisis documentary. They also had to train new members and create bite-sized, hands-on peer-learning tutorials, to share their skills and demonstrate their acquired skills. As a direct result of our collaboration, one of the participants has now commenced a part time position as media officer for the RUWE Ngarrindjeri Resource Corporation to document their Caring For Country processes. Her role as media officer will also support her to continue to train with Change Media over the coming years.
May 5th, 2010: I Am A Rocket wins third place as favourite Australian child-made short
This weekend Little Big Shots Film Festival screened all the Australian films in this year’s festival to their official jury of 10 kids and they voted I Am A Rocket in third place as their favourite Australian child-made short.
Congratulations to Abby and the Change Media team at D’faces of Youth Arts Whyalla!
Some of the comments from the jurors (aged from 8-13) included:
“Unique, with a very positive message.”
“Very imaginative.”
Little Big Shot Film Festival is officially launching the festival at ACMI in Melbourne on Sunday June 6, 2010, and they will present a special Little Big Shots award to present to the Change Media team.
April 19th, 2010: On the Move selected for the Dungog Film Festival 2010
Fantastic news for the community media team at Dungog in the Upper Hunter – their film, On the Move, made during a Change Media workshop in April 2009, has been selected to screen as part of the world’s biggest film festival of Australian films, the Dungog Film Festival. The festival is an important event in the international and Australian festival circuit, a great success for this quirky and uplifting film. Congratulations to the team in Dungog!
Renmark SA, November 2009
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project worked with 12 participants from the Riverland Youth Theatre to explore innovative ways to incorporate digital media into their creative programs.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Country Arts SA; Riverland Youth Theatre RYT; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Riverland Youth Theatre films
Greenies have feelings too!
Hard to Swallow
Tree Change
OUTCOMES: We tailored the workshop to suit a range of skill levels and experience, our aim to share as much digital media knowledge as possible in a 1-day session: with one group we focused on comedy and satire, another expressed an emotional journey with objects and the third team wanted to tell a real documentary story – the Herculean challenge was to convert each concept into film, script, understand film narratives and angles, act, and learn how to shoot an edit-in-camera video we will all watch at the end of the day!
All participants achieved basic camera, audio and screen language skills.
We also explored innovative ways to incorporate digital media into the school curriculum.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:: The group watched their films with appreciation at the end of a fantastic day workshop. Riverland Youth Theatre screened them at their annual general meeting Dec 2009.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Working with regional youth, arts and theatre practitioners was an exciting challenge for our team. The diverse team of young and not-so-young artists came up with a range of fantastic ideas for their edit-in-camera films: how does it feel to make a tree change, the politics of politics and bullying from the perspective of gym balls…
It was amazing to watch their films at the end of the day, shot in only a few hours.
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Whyalla SA, June 2009
CHALLENGE: D’faces of youth arts requested a professional development session to support them set up their youth media centre. They were also keen to produce a documentary about Port Lowly, but due to a last minute change in program, the Hero Project team tailored a workshop with a group of young people from D’faces and its HYPER Program to make a series of short films.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnerships Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; D’faces of Youth Arts Whyalla and its HYPER program through the Attorney General’s Office SA; SA Youth Arts Board; Middleback Theatre; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: I Am A Rocket
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Word War 3
Josh Burns
the Failtaculars
OUTCOME: This workshop provided technical support and professional advise about making media in communities. D’faces are successfully using their new computer and camera gear to continue to make videos.
The anti-future awards: Change Media Film Challenge; Create a short film about your future you!
Through a series of brainstorming and hands-on sessions the teams produced 4 hilarious films: Abby follows her family tradition sky-high, soon-to-be hairdressers face it off, two jaded rock stars mop up their success and a bunch of understated super heroes are in search for their necessary nemesis…
The message: Don’t let anyone get in your way to do what you want with your life!
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2010 I Am A Rocket wins third prize for Best Child-produced Film and screens at the international Little Big Shots Film Festival for Young People.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The Change Media team provided a 1-day debriefing and professional development session on media strategies to deal with the impact of political community art and the restrictions sponsorship may impose on arts funding in general. Read the rest of this page and add your comments »
Warooka SA, April 2009
CHALLENGE: Warooka CPC-7 are developing a fantastic digital literacy program, and want the school to keep up with their 21st Century students, (who are surrounded by technology at home and see this as part of everyday life).
The Hero Project were called in to work with 26 students from Warooka CPC – 7, Curramulka Primary and Yorketown Area School to explore innovative ways to incorporate digital media into the school curriculum.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Department of Education and Children Services; Warooka CPC – 7 School; Curramulka Primary School; Yorketown Area School; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: WURRAMOOKA NEWS
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Wurramooka News: Keeping Warooka in the loop, live from our studios at Warooka CPC – 7 School. Stay tuned for today’s headlines: Locals tell us why they want a Media Centre. On the spot reports about the Easter tourist invasion. Why home grown food is great! Weather, sports and school updates. And some tips on how to make your own films!
OUTCOMES: To incorporate as many of the students ideas as possible, the team decided to produce a news show. The Hero Project tailored the workshops to suit a range of skill levels: focusing on motion graphics, green screen work and compositing for the students we had previously mentored. Introducing basic camera and editing skills for the Curramulka Primary students – and the Yorketown High School students were asked to delve deeper into screen narratives and production management. It is a rewarding collaboration when there are computers with teams editing, creating music, animations, designing name plates, while others are out filming on-location, scripting the news items and preparing cue sheets and props for the performers sitting at the news desk.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
DECS State Award for Innovation in Digital Media at the New Media Awards Screenings 2009.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Apple Australia is using the film as a showcase example for innovation in the classroom.
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Gloucester NSW, April 2009
CHALLENGE: Arts Upper Hunter invited the Hero Project to run a workshop titled ‘Portraits of Place’, to work with locals to create a film about Gloucester. 20 participants from all walks of life decided very quickly they wanted to explore the potential impact of coal mining on their community and environment.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Arts NSW; Arts Upper Hunter Inc; Gloucester City Council Youth Centre; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: What’s yours, is Mine..d
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Join Eric Ingot as he shows Gloucester their future. With reassuring confidence and panache he identifies the multitude of benefits to enjoy from an open cut mine. “ At Envira-Coal, we dig the future! “
OUTCOMES: The Gloucester team met for the first time at the Council’s youth centre. Within an hour, they had identified their story – the looming open pit coal mine, that is threatening to destroy their beautiful environment. Their biggest challenge: how to make a community film that depicts a possible threat, raises awareness and educates without scaring your audience? They created a satirical pro-mining advertisement, applying spin doctor messages to sell-up potential problems as benefits! The diverse team, aged 14-65, learnt how to script and pace a comedic narrative, storyboard and film on multiple locations. 8 laptops formed a mobile edit unit, with every team producing a different chapter of the story, plus music, titles and GFX.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
AWARD WINNER at the International Foster Short Film competition 2009 – congratulations! Forster International Film Festival
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Their 5min film attracted over 600 hits and many comments on YouTube within the first week of upload by one of the youth team members.
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Dungog NSW, April 2009
CHALLENGE: Arts Upper Hunter invited the Hero Project to run a workshop titled ‘Portraits of Place’, to work with locals to create a film about Dungog. In their first film workshop together, 12 Dungog locals explored a seemingly quirky topic, yet controversial expose of the hidden tensions in their town.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Arts NSW; Arts Upper Hunter Inc; Dungog Shire Council; Country Womens Association; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: On The Move
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At first glance the country town of Dungog in NSW feels like any other quiet, small rural town. Driving down the main street, past the monument one would never suspect that the community is divided. The problem is the local icon in the middle of the main street. Is it a monument or an obelisk? A round about or a traffic hazard? And more importantly should it be moved?
OUTCOMES: Dungog locals explored how they could make a film that would portray their town and life AND do justice to all of their creative visions?! This resulted in several intense brainstorming sessions, teams conducting a series of interviews and a fabulous factory style editing suite as everyone crafted the final film. And finally it all revolved around the monument in the main street!
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
May 2010 ABC Online features On the Move and runs a story about the project.
March 2010 Great news for our Dungog team: Selected to screen as part of the world’s biggest film festival of Australian films, the Dungog Film Festival 2010
2009 Finalist in the Wollombi Short Film Festival 2009. Congratulations to the community media team in Dungog!
2009 Second place in the state-wide “My town is special coz’” competition run by the Department of State and Regional Development NSW. www.artsupperhunter.com.au/files/newsletters/October_Artsbark.pdf
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: After much heated debate and a story development process, the group formed a fantastic creative team…
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Coorong SA, January 2009
CHALLENGE: The Change Media team were invited to work with the community at Camp Coorong to explore how they could use digital media for social change. 20 Ngarrindjeri community members from Raukkan and Meningie participated in the workshop.
The youth participants had an ambitious vision: they wanted to make a hard-hitting documentary about the water problem AND interview their elders in only four and a half days. To make things even more challenging, a professional TV crew came down from Canberra to document the Change Media process with the Ngarrindjeri team for ABC TV’s Message Stick, at the same time…
PARTNERS: Indigenous Cultural Support DEWHA; Indigenous Coordination Centre SA; Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association; Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: NUKKAN.KUNGUN.YUNNAN
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Buy your copy of the full documentary DVD with extended Elders interviews here.
This powerful 22 minute documentary presents the real impact the water crisis is having on the Coorong and its people. Driven by Ngarrindjeri youth it examines the effects on Ngarrindjeri culture as well as the damage for all Australians. The question is, what will we do to change it?
OUTCOMES: The Change Media team worked with the community to identify key issues and stories and trained the participants in digital media skills from scripting, storyboards, video and sound recording to editing.
The team conducted over 15 interviews with Ngarrindjeri Elders and youth to create an informative, emotionally charged documentary. After they recorded the interviews with their elders, the team weren’t keen to edit their stories and potentially loose important information or be disrespectful. We demonstrated how to use their footage to create a film and interview assembly clips to produce a multi-layered DVD: with a short, media friendly 5min trailer, a 22-min documentary and a sub menu with the entire interviews with their elders. During the workshop the 22 min rough cut was screened to over 40 community members and elders. One of the participants gained part time employment as a media officer for Caring For Country, at RUWE Ngarrindjeri Resource Corporation, as a direct outcome of the Change Media program.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2010 The project has been selected to screen at the national Communities in Control conference in Melbourne, as part of Change Media’s Kookaburra Award for Best Community Project 2010.
2010 The film has been invited to screen at the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York in June 2010.
2010 National Indigenous TV Australia broadcast the 22-min version of the film February 2010.
2009 On Nov 16th, Ngarrindjeri elder and community leader Tom Trevorrow was awarded the Special MyHero Award at the International MyHero Film Festival in LA.
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Cherry Gardens SA, November 2008
CHALLENGE: Horse SA commissioned the Hero Project team to work with a group of teenage girls to produce a film about horse and land care. During the workshop the youth team met the challenge head on: in only 3 days they created Horse TV!
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnerships Initiative; Arts SA Partnerships for Healthy Communities; Horse SA; Horse Owners of the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges; the Melbourne Water Corporation; the Evironmental Protection Agency; the Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Horse TV
Welcome to Horse TV: This series of funny TV ads and soap spoofs raises awareness about environmental issues around horse ownership and addresses 5 key messages:
Healthy Pastures all year round spells healthy horses
Cheap Cheap Cheap: reduce dust and mud, horses hate cheap pastures
Purer Trough: safe, clean, easy water for your horse that doesn’t impact on creeks and waterways
Silver Service – A Ladies Companion to Classy Compost: Horse manure management 101
Horse CSI: Control your weeds before it is too late…
OUTCOMES: The workshop focused on training teenage girls and in the brainstorming session they decided to create a series of TV Advert spoofs as an upbeat way to share land care messages for horse owners. During the workshop the young filmmakers learnt all basic skills required for video production, including scripting, story-boarding, camera + sound work, acting, directing, editing and music production.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The final film was screened 4 day after the workshop to over 50 people in the Cherry Gardens community hall.
The film was distributed online through the Australian Pony Club to over 10.000 members.
Horse SA have presented it at several conferences.
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Regional Arts Australia conference: Art at the Heart, Sept 2008
CHALLENGE: During the RAA’s (Regional Arts Australia) most recent bi-annual conference in Alice Springs, the Hero Project was invited to present its community empowerment work in a 1 hour conference presentation. We also were selected to run a 2-hour edit-in-camera workshop, introducing regional art workers and artists to our unique model.
PARTNERS: Regional Arts Australia; the Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA ; CAAMA; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia; DECS
Film: Art at the Heart edit-in-camera films
OUTCOMES: We had a record number of participants: over 100 people attended our presentation and 40 people participated in the hands-on workshop on the second day. The 4 teams producing 4 great films. Feedback from the participants and audience was that it was one of the best presentations at RAA that year…
Above you find links to the films made during the Saturday 2-hour workshop at ‘Art at the Heart’ at CAAMA.
(We found the ‘lost film’, yah) and couldn’t resist making some tiny-weeny changes to support your edit-in-camera film ideas (as we understood them), we hope you like our input… Again big thanks to CAAMA for supporting the workshop and offering their great space.
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Whyalla SA, May 2008
CHALLENGE: D’Faces commissioned the Hero Project team to run a holiday program. The Hero Project extended the workshop as part of their commitment to produce the Document Your World finalist films. 20 young people, aged 10-19, from Whyalla and surrounding communities were involved in this project.
PARTNERS: Australia Council for the Arts; Arts SA; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Dfaces of youth arts Whyalla; Australian International Documentary Conference; Australian Childrens Television Foundation; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: Artists not Aliens
Follow three aliens on their journey to find out if there is artistic life in Whyalla, a sports-mad steel town in South Australia. Whyalla has more sports facilities than you can count on your fingers and toes, but only a few places to do some art…
OUTCOMES: At the beginning of the workshop James presented the initial idea he pitched to a large audience of professional film makers and broadcasters at the Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference in February 2007. The group were excited about the idea, and had a great team of actors and crew to make this ambitious film work.
The Hero Project trained all of the participants in digital media skills to script, storyboard, film, record sound, and part- edit their film during the 5- day workshop. The group split up into teams to make it to all of their desired locations and apportioned roles and tasks according to age and ability – a fantastic team effort. Take a look for yourself, it is sometimes hard to grasp that they managed to have the same actor appear multiple times in the same scene…
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2008 2nd prize in the national ReelLife Film Festival 2008 in Sydney.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: The Hero team delivered D’Faces newly purchased media equipment, so both D’faces staff and youth members needed to be trained in Final Cut, camera work, computer file management, while they created their film.
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Quorn SA, January 2008
CHALLENGE: The Hero Project team worked with 6 students at the Quorn Area School, supported by the Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service, the Quorn Area School, the local council and the Quorn Caravan Park, as a direct result of the 2007 Document Your World competition.
PARTNERS: Arts SA; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Southern Flinders Ranges Health Service Inc; Quorn Caravan Park; Tallstoreez Productionz, Apple Australia
Film: Every Drop Counts
OUTCOMES: To create a short documentary that addresses environmental concerns arising from the ongoing drought in north SA.
The participants identified a number of relevant interviewees, great locations and found fantastic archival footage about a flood. This was the final production in a series of 4 workshops with the Quorn community; as a result the local school has taken up digital media as part of their curriculum and the community has a great team of young documentarians and upcoming journalists.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
The film screened at the Screen Australia outback touring program in Quorn.
IMPACT & FEEDBACK: Their films screened as part of the Screen Australia outback touring program at the Quorn caravan park, to an audience of over 200. Read the rest of this page and add your comments »
Karoonda SA, Aug 2007
CHALLENGE: The Karoonda community commissioned the Hero Project team to work with a group of local youth to produce a documentary about the impact of drink driving on small rural towns.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion Through the Arts; Country Arts SA; Karoonda Area School; Murray Mallee Community Education Network Inc; Mallee Health Service Inc; Tallstoreez Productionz; Apple Australia
Film: 9 Steps to Become a Successful Underage Drinker
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A fabulous discussion starter about underage drinking: ‘9 Steps to Become a Successful Underage Drinker’ is a comedic take on ‘how-to’ videos and drug education with a high impact ending that will have your students talking for days. Goose bumps guaranteed!
OUTCOMES: Initially the group discussed interviewing the local police officer and locals to create a documentary about the issue. When the Hero Project team asked if they would watch this film, they admitted they find ‘educational’ videos boring. So their task was to make a film they would watch. After lengthy debate from the young people and adults in the room, the Hero mentors suggested the team work with a satirical reversal to get the message across. They brainstormed all the stories ‘everyone shares about their youthful exploits’, and so the conversation began… The team drafted the 9 steps in the first session and then shot them over several sessions working with the Hero mentors. It was fantastic to work with the youth team and the Karoonda community, who all pitched in to support the project, from offering locations, making props and acting in the film.
Using humour and a satirical reversal this film drives a serious punch and comes with an urgently needed resource pack to support teachers and youth workers to tackle the issues of underage drinking.
Pinnaroo, Mallee region SA, June 2007 to May 2008
CHALLENGE: Kade Richardson and Sam Long were finalists at the 2007 Document Your World competition, hosted by the Australian International Documentary Conference. They were 1 of 5 Australian youth teams who pitched their film ideas in front of a large audience, to a panel of broadcasters. ABC were on the panel and commissioned this mini-series for JTV. Over the following 6 months the Hero Project team conducted a series of master classes with the ‘Oo in Pinnaroo’ team to produce 10 kooky episodes about life in Pinnaroo.
Pinnaroo Surfer
‘I don’t reckon you can see Pinnaroo in one day, unless you’re driving through.’ Kade shares his wisdom about bush life, local landmarks and stuff.
Buy the complete Pinnaroo Surfer series on DVD here.
PARTNERS: Arts SA Health Promotion through the Arts; Country Arts SA Regional Arts Fund; Tallstoreez Productionz; ABC TV; Mallee Health Service Inc; Australian International Documentary Conference; Australian Childrens Television Foundation; Apple Australia
SCREENINGS & AWARDS:
2010 Lahore International Children’s Festival, Pakistan
2009 ABC TV broadcast Pinnaroo Surfer series (Jan – Feb)
2008 Little Big Shot Film Festival for Young People, extensive Australian tour and world-wide
2008 Art At The Heart Regional Arts Australia conference, Alice Springs
2007 MyHero International Film Festival Los Angeles USA – 3rd Prize, High School Category
2007 Come Out Youth Film Festival at the Mercury Cinema in Adelaide
2006 Pinnaroo Surfer forms part of the award winning Directing the Hero Within DVD resource
10-part ABC TV series: Pinnaroo Surfer
1. My Watering Hole Watch
Kade grabs his swag and heads to The Woolshed, the best country pub in town. It’s super real, like a giant scrapbook full of Pinnaroo landmarks, bush nostalgia and a mechanical bull.
2. High Noon Watch
‘This town ain’t big enough for the two of us.’ Or is it? In the name of Country and Western, Kade and Tommie settle a score, Pinnaroo style.
3. Big Things Watch
Sometimes ‘Big Things’ reflect what a town’s biggest passion can be, but does size matter? Kade travels the Mallee region to size up the local ‘Big Things’.
4. Camping’s the best! Watch
Kade packs his swag, tent and all the survival skills his Dad has taught him and heads into the Pinnaroo scrub. When he forgets the matches he uses his bush ingenuity to save the trip.
5. In Competition Watch
This year Kade wants to win the blue ribbon at Pinnaroo’s most prestigious and oldest Show event, the ‘Best Polished Boot’.
6. Painting a Masterpiece Watch
Art isn’t just for snobs, it’s heaps cool. Kade tries everything to win a prize at the Pinnaroo Show and his ‘Best Decorated Biscuit’ entry is in a class of its own.
7. Heavyweight Champion Watch
‘Move over Rocky Balboa, I’ve got you licked.’ Kade trains to become the champion speed ice-cream eater at the Pinnaroo Show.
8. The Fish Whisperer Watch
‘If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fish’. Kade enjoys the Zen of fishing and has found the secret Pinnaroo spot everyone is raving about.
9. Thinking Man Watch
‘I like to call myself a thinker, that can think.’ Kade travels through time to a magic billabong to practice the art of deep thought.
10. Football Legend Watch
‘You need to be in the right frame of mind if you want to become a legend, like Ben Cousins.’ Kade is arguably the best player on his team, if not second best.
Pinnaroo Surfer – the original Watch
Kade loves the Beach Boys, surfing’s the best. Pinnaroo might be 300 km from the ocean, but that doesn’t stop him surfing.