Melbourne Indie Film Festival 2020 – Wednesday 18th March 6PM – Australian Feature Documentary + Australian Short Film
Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language Documentary & Surprise Short Film TBA+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY:
Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language – Amel Tresnjic – Australia
Synopsis: This heart-warming documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of language and communication and the crucial role it plays for newly arrived refugees in Australia. This inspiring film tells the stories of refugees and the trauma they endured before fleeing their war torn country in search for safety and better opportunities in life. On arrival in Australia they are welcomed at Dandenong North Primary School, a multi-cultural primary school situated in a Melbournian suburb. The film features the schools highly successful English Additional Language Support Program and highlights the life changing role it plays for children new to Australia. The EAL program grew from a small intervention program catering for between 12-30 students to a specialist faculty teaching English to more than 200 students weekly. Dandenong North Primary School demonstrates the vital responsibility an educational institution plays in supporting refugee students as they overcome language barriers. The aim of the support program is to help these students learn English and become productive and successful members of society. The importance of speaking English and being able to communicate in Australia is the heart of this unique and uplifting educational film made by multi-award winning documentary filmmaker, Amel Tresnjic.
SHORT FILM:
ReFraction – Mirko Grillini – Australia
Cast: Heath Bergersen, Kaushik Das
Synopsis: ReFraction follows Jay Cooper, a successful lawyer, raised by foster parents from the young age of eleven. As a child, the authorities separated him from his indigenous mother, after she killed his brother in a freak accident. Jay returns to his native homeland to bury his estranged mother whom he had not seen for the last thirty years, when an unexpected turn of events finds him hostage to a mad knife-wielding stranger. The unlikely duo embark on a dangerous journey of redemption that could lead them both to their eventual demise.
TICKETS:
$12.00 + Booking Fee @ Eventbrite
$15.00 door
Seats are limited
Advanced bookings highly recommended!
LOCATION INFO:
The Screening Room Upstairs
@ The Post St Kilda
Directions:
Tram Routes:
Number 3 or Number 67
Tram Stop 34
More Directions at: https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/
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