Wednesday Feb 18. 6.30pm – 10.00pm
Peter Gilbert Masterclass
Peter Gilbert in conversation with Richard Sowada
Screening: Bastardy (dir: Amiel Courtin – Wilson)
Q & A with Amiel Courtin Wilson, Peter Filbert and Richard Sowada
PETER GILBERT - Producer/Director/DOP. USA.
Peter is one of the filmmakers who made Hoop Dreams, serving as a Producer and Director of Photography. Also with Steve James, he recently finished At the Death House Door which has won awards at several festivals and is currently short listed for an Academy Award. In 2004, Peter produced and directed With All Deliberate Speed, the first work in the new series Discovery Docs for the Discovery Network. The Emmy nominated film portrays the drama of the monumental Brown V. Board Supreme Court decision that helped change the racial fabric of the USA in 1954. Peter was Executive Producer on The Ballad of Eziquel Hernandez for PBS; the Sundance Festival Grand Jury and Audience award winning film, The Gods Tired of Us; and the award-winning, Emmy nominated, Deadline on NBC. He produced and directed the DGA and Emmy nominated A Time for Dancing for Showtime and his Cinematography work includes Barbara Kopple’s Academy award-winning, American Dream.
Peter will deliver a masterclass specifically for AIDC Fringe and be in conversation with ACMI’s Head of Film Programs Richard Sowada.
BASARDY: Jack Charles is Bastardy: a 63-year-old homosexual Aboriginal elder, award-winning actor, professional cat burglar and former junkie. A child of the stolen generation, Charles drifted into Melbourne's bohemian underground in the early 60s, where he found the theatre, a lover, heroin and a talent for cat burglary. Between long stints in jail he's also maintained a successful acting career.
Amiel Courtin-Wilson's (Chasing Buddha) impressionistic portrait captures Jack Charles warts and all, in his many contradictions: a man who evokes a rich sense of poetry and humour, and embodies a streetwise indomitability.
Friday Feb 20 6.30pm – 10.00pm
Peter Wintonick Masterclass
Panel discussion with Peter Wintonick, Vincent Lamberti and Vanessa Davis (The Intervention) and Robyn Hughan (A Nun’s New Habit).
Screening: PilgrIMAGE (dir: Peter Wintonick and Mira Burt-Wintonick)
Peter Wintonick is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence, prolific award winning filmmaker, he is one of Canada's best known international documentarians. He currently runs Necessary Illusions Productions along with his partner Francis Miquet. Wintonick is one of the founders of DocAgora, an event inserted into various film festivals showcasing cutting-edge digital strategies.
Wintonick directed Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media with Mark Achbar and Francis Miquet. (1992), Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment, and Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News: Winner of the Hampton's Film Festival Abraham Prize and Gemini Award nominee, co-directed with Katerina Cizek. (2002)
Peter Wintonick’s new film PilgrIMAGE, made with his daughter Mira Burt- Wintonick will have its Australian premiere as part of the AIDC Fringe.
Peter will deliver an inspiring an thought provoking seminar looking at socially engaged documentary making and will also be available after the screening of PilgrIMAGE for a Q&A.
The panel discussion features Wintonick and Australian filmmakers Robyn Hughan, Vince Lamberti and Vanessa Davis looking at socially engaged and low budget documentary making.
Lamberti and Davis’ recent film The Intervention explores issues and outcomes around the federal governments Intervention in the Northern Territory. Robyn Hughan’s film A Nun’s New Habit follows the story of Sister Carmel Wauchope from Whyalla, who advocates for refugees who have been detained in the nearby Baxter detention centre.
The panel discussion is followed by the Australian premiere of PilgrIMAGE.
PilgrIMAGE: A road-movie about movies, renowned docu-maker Peter Wintonick and his 20-year-old media-making daughter Mira, take a trip across film history and media’s future, questioning how different generations view, use or make their own film, images, sound and media. (82 mins)
