Charles Brown – AFGHANISTAN
AFGHANISTAN by BROWN AND BULPIN
Charles Brown and Randy Bulpin’s ‘Afghanistan’ is a song drawing attention to the high suicide rates in Australia’s servicemen and women.
Charles Brown and Randy Bulpin’s ‘Afghanistan’ is a song drawing attention to the high suicide rates in Australia’s servicemen and women.
On Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, townships north-east of Melbourne were threatened by firestorms. Considered Australia’s worst ever natural disaster it resulted in the highest loss of life and injuries from a bushfire in Australia. The conditions in which the fires were ignited and burnt were extreme. After the horror of immediate losses, people had naturally embarked on various journeys of repair and recovery. The Blacksmiths’ Tree was one of them.
FORGED FROM FIRE: THE ANDREW GARTON INTERVIEW
Publication: Screen Space
Interview – Andrew Garton, Director, Forged from Fire
Publication: We Are Moving Stories
Docs Factor reviews Forged from Fire
Publication: The Docs Factor Podcast
A TOUCHING LOOK AT AN AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY
Publication: Switch
Cinema Australia Podcast Episode #36 | Andrew Garton
Publication: Cinema Australia
Top 5 films to see at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Publication: Follow Magazine
For decades I believed I had come from the stars. What I believed to be memories waned in my 30’s, re-surfaced in my early 50’s and came to a necessary halt around the time I turned 56. But it was that first decade when the backyard walks of my childhood fired my imagination so much that Zandor’s adventures across the cosmos lived both in me and the stories I would share with my younger brother and sister. Our mother would have us bed down early — as children we slept in the same room as our parents — and I would recount my outer space memories.
Published on Medium – I AM NOT AN ALIEN
Once a year on the northern fringes of Melbourne 60 singers from multilingual, multi-faith and inter-generational backgrounds gather for 10 weeks of rehearsals to perform a single concert. In 2015 I was invited to mentor a youth theatre group with whom we made a film about this unique choir, a choir that only sings songs about Christmas. This Choir Sings Carols is a moving story about a community that came together through song, embracing young and old, new arrivals and those with disabilities. However, when the film was completed we were unable to screen it. Anywhere. This article describes why.
Published on Medium – When Copyright Stymied Christmas
Thanks to Dr Rebecca Giblin, ARC Future Fellow, Law Resources, Monash University and media and entertainment lawyer Shaun Miller for their comments on earlier drafts.
This article and the final edit of This Choir Sings Carols was financed through an Australia Cultural Fund initiative with special thanks for their generous contributions to Pepper Pearce, Mirranda Burton, Kitt Loughman, Carmela Baranowska, Elliott Bledsoe, Robyn Becker, Robert A Garnsey, Jessica Coates, Patricia A Aufderheide, Peter Martin, Kylie Pappalardo, Kimberlee Weatherall, Rebecca K Giblin and the City of Whittlesea.
Duration: 11:09 mins
Director: Andrew Garton
Completed: October 2018
Download the book [PDF 2MB] – Right to Know – India’s internet Avant-garde. Published by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and the Australia India Institute.
Purchase the Soundtrack – Music, field recordings and soundscapes
Produced with the assistance of the Digital Empowerment Foundation. A production of Secession/Films.