Sydney Indie Film Festival 2019 – Uplifting Movies & Awards Night! THURSDAY, 31ST OCTOBER, 7:30PM
Sydney Indie Film Festival 2019 – Uplifting Movies & Awards Night! THURSDAY, 31ST OCTOBER, 7:30PM
An awakening session to close the Sydney Indie 2019 expressing our passion for bringing people together to celebrete life!
Sydney Indie Film Festival 2019 – Closing Night Events
Feature Documentary “WeRiseUp”
+ Short Films “Daily Bread” + “Rear View Mirror”
+ Q&A with the Filmmakers!
Followed by Awards Ceremony!
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“WeRiseUP”, Michael Shaun Conaway, USA, https://vimeo.com/337823196
Language: English
Cast: His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Prince EA, John Mackey, Amina Mohammed, Richard Branson, Dwight Howard, Moby, Michael Franti, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Tom Chi, DJ Spooky, Peter Thomson, Isabella Lovin, Alanis Morissette, Tony Hsieh, Sylvia Earle, Luke Nosek, Lynne Twist, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jack Canfield, Peter Diamandis
Synopsis: The world is in the midst of a tremendous period of transition and our current models aren’t adequate to support the future that is quickly emerging. At this critical inflection point, WeRiseUP asks a fundamental question: What is success?
Through an intimate inquiry with leading business, entertainment, and thought leaders, along with voices of global citizens from all walks of life, the film explores new personal, systemic and collective models of success, prosperity, contribution and what it will take for humanity to create a thriving future.
Transitioning between intimate dialogue to cinematically stunning visuals and music driven interstitials, this film is a radical departure from the expert-driven documentary, into a profound personal journal of inquiry, reflection and action.
Daily Bread, Ruby Challenger, Australia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhhFWHPfF8Q&feature=youtu.be
Language: Dutch, Japanese
Cast: Ruby Challenger, Nobuaki Shimamoto
Synopsis: In a WWII internment camp in Indonesia, Jan and a group of Dutch women and children face a daily struggle against abuse, disease and starvation. The Japanese Camp Commandant and his beloved, fluffy white cat, oversee the gruelling camp regime. Jan is a brave but impulsive young woman, and when she acts out of desperation to save a little girl’s life, her actions bring consequences upon the whole camp. What is the price for a meal when women and children are starving? Daily Bread is based on an excerpt from the autobiography Fifty Years of Silence by Jan Ruff O’Herne, which was published by Random House and has been translated into five languages.
Rear View Mirror, Jonathan Terence May, Australia
Language: English
Cast: Ingo Hansen
Synopsis: “When the impermanence of life and land collide, what remains inside the heart and soul of a man”
Ingo Hansen returns to the desert opal mining town where he grew up, struggling with his health and searching for answers. At a crossroads in his life, he seeks comfort in reminiscing the impact of the harsh landscapes and crazy adventures he had in Andamooka - one of the most remote places in South Australia.
Ingo soon realises that the thriving outback town he once loved is now bleak and it mercilessly parallels his own impermanence; the harsh winds of life blow not just on the desert but also inside his heart. In its glory days Andamooka had over 3000 residents, but now the opal has dried up and it is a former shadow of itself – with a total population of 316.
It takes a certain type of person to love a place like this, with the isolation and the desolation. Walking through the cemetery Ingo reflects on the grim truths of his reality, and how strange it is to know every body that lies beneath him in the dust. As in life, both the once beautiful landscape and the once promising future he faced are slowly fading way and the story is unforgiving.
Program subject to change without notice.
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