Deadly Yarns Short to Screen at Opera House

Western Australian Indigenous short documentary, Who Paintin’ Dis Wandjina , has been selected to screen at the 2008 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival at the Sydney Opera House on July 2-6. It is the first of the Deadly Yarns films to be selected to screen at the Message Sticks Festival. Curated by the award-winning filmmakers Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale, the festival showcases the latest Australian and international Indigenous films.

The film was directed by Taryne Laffar and produced by Janine Boreland as part of Deadly Yarns 3, a ScreenWest, Film and Television Institute WA (FTI), and ABC TV initiative supporting the development of WA Indigenous filmmakers. Who Paintin’ Dis Wandjina is told through the eyes of an anonymous non-Indigenous graffiti artist who speaks about the hundreds of Wandjina stencils and graffiti around the city of Perth. Traditional owners of the sacred Wandjina – an ancient creator spirit – respond and explain the inappropriateness of this image being graffitied without ‘proper’ knowledge.

WA Indigenous documentary, Spirit Stones , was also selected for Message Sticks. Directed by Allan Collins, produced by Jennifer Gherardi and supported by ScreenWest and Lotterywest, the beautifully filmed documentary uses intimate storytelling to tell of the phenomenal events that occurred in the 1940s and 1950s when stones fell on Aboriginal (Noongar) camps. These “showers” delivered stones in locations up to 250 kilometres apart, falling at various places for hours, sometimes days and even weeks and months.

In Spirtit Stones witnesses reignite their memories and recreate these very strange and sometimes scary events. Message Sticks premieres at the Opera House on July 2-6, before embarking on a national tour. The Perth leg of the Festival will be held on July 24 -27 at Cinema Paradiso.

Deadly Yarns 4 is now calling for applicactions. For more information, to download an application form or read about the films produced under prior Deadly Yarns go to Deadly Yarns. Wed Apr 2008 02:04 (8 months, 1 week ago)
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