Video is now available of the FILEF Information evening (for May 2018) on Australia’s chequered history with Timor in particular the vexed issue of the Maritime Boundaries between Australia and its newest and smallest neighbour, Timor-Leste
Category: Archive Info Evenings
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Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tom Zubrycki and FILEF invite you to a special screening of THE HUNGRY TIDE.
A personal story about the impact of climate change on the small Pacific nation of KIRIBATI, one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change, where sea level rise is threatening the lives of 105,000 people in 33 atolls.
Tom Zubrycki’s documentaries on social, environmental and political issues have earned an international reputation for their truthfulness, realism and humanity. For the last 35 years his documentaries have mapped Australia’s changing social and political landscape, and have won international prizes and have been screened around the world. Apart from making films, Tom is also a teacher of Documentary, helping prepare the new generation of dedicated filmmakers.
SPECIAL GUEST: Vincent Sicari is a project officer with the Pacific Calling Partnership, an NGO which facilitates links between concerned people in Australia and the small island nations of the Pacific most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Vincent is currently involved in the delivery of a program which aims to provide leadership training to young Pacific Islanders.
Q&A will follow
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FILEF and Migrante (Filipino Community Organization) invite you to a special screening of short documentaries by
KILAB Multimedia, a filmmakers group focusing on news stories on the indigenous and other marginalized sectors of Mindanao and on different aspects of the Human Rights struggle in the Philippines.
* Screening of documentary shorts by KILAB multimedia
* SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER : Professor Gill Boehringer
lawyer and international Human Rights advocate.
Q & A will follow – Light refreshments on arrival –
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Our next event will be on Thursday 27 September
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Frontyard Films and FILEF invite you to a special screening of short documentaries about some of the union movement’s pivotal historical moments: the 1917 Great Strike – the largest industrial action in Australian history – the unionisation of Aboriginal workers – and the infamous Patrick dispute on Sydney wharves in 1998.
Frontyard Films is the film partnership of documentary filmmakers Amanda ‘Mandy’ King and Fabio Cavadini, who have been making films together for over 30 years, discovering and documenting stories in Australia and in the Pacific region – about the environment, Indigenous rights and the arts. Their films have screened at festivals, theatres and museums around the world.
Frontyard Films is currently working on 2 feature length documentaries, the shorts of which will be shown on the night.
Link to Trailer ‘The Great Strike 1917’ http://www.documentaryaustralia.com.au/films/4147/the-great-strike-1917
SPECIAL GUEST
Paul Keating Deputy Branch Secretary,
Sydney Branch of the Maritime Union of Australia, MUA.
Paul has been active over the years, in particular by defending MUA members during the 2015 campaign against illegal sackings in Port Botany, as well as supporting local community actions, such as the campaign against WestConnex.
Q&A will follow.
Light Refreshments on arrival
Entry by donation
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Our next event will be held on Thursday 30 August at 6pm
28 June 2018
Russ Hermann: Video Selection Part 1
00:00 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, Aboriginal Demonstration
5:02 Kemira Mine Closure
6:25 David Bellamy on saving Franklin River
11:42 Deep Bells Ring on Paul Robeson
14:38 Danny Glover visits Tranby College
17:32 National Textiles workers entitlements
28:08 Patricks Dispute Interview John Coombs ends 28’08”
Russ Hermann: Video Selection Part 2
00 Saving Erko Estate 00
8:45 CFMEU Miners against Work Choices, 8’45″
14:19 Saving Millers Point, 13’19″
17:54 WEST CONNEX – Heritage House, 17’54″
18:54 Haberfield School 18’44″
26:39 Road to Nowhere 22’13”, finishes 26’39”.
Link to film https://youtu.be/CsEOOFPnFBc
Video record of the book launch of Umberto Lavezzari’s memoir La Mia Liguria
Spontaneous Productions and FILEF invite you to a special screening of short films on political activism in Sydney by senior filmmaker Russ Hermann.
Over the years Spontaneous Productions has been covering most of the major struggles and campaigns in Sydney, going from workers’ and Indigenous rights to the defence of the environment and to tenants’ rights, as well as promoting and documenting community arts.
The latest production is Road to Nowhere, a look at the ongoing campaign to stop WestConnex, a colossal toll road system threatening to strangle Sydney in vehicle traffic and pollution.
The “Public Transport not Motorways” campaign reflects the growing opposition to the project from the community, including many victims of forced demolitions and health threats.
SPECIAL GUEST Rochelle Porteous, Greens Inner West Councillor, who has been on the front line in the campaign to stop the obnoxious WestConnex project in favour of public transport.
Leichhardt Library 6.pm – Italian Forum Piazza level, 23 Norton Street
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Come and celebrate with FILEF Italian Liberation Day, commemorating 25 April 1945 and the victory of the Resistance to nazi-fascism that gave birth to the Italian Republic and to a Constitution founded on the values of democracy and work.
La Festa della Liberazione or Festa del 25 Aprile is a classic yearly celebration for FILEF and its supporters, over 45 years of activism in Australia. So come and join us!
Academic and early FILEF member professor Joseph Halevi will talk about:
“THE ANTI-FASCIST RESISTANCE IN ITALY, ITS HISTORICAL AND PRESENT SIGNIFICANCE”.
Joseph Halevi graduated in Philosophy and Political Economy in Rome, has been Professor of Economics at the International University College Turin, Italy, since 2010, has taught economics at the University of Sydney, in France and in the United States. In Italy he was member of the Italian Communist Party since the early 1960s. He joined FILEF as soon as he arrived in Sydney in 1978.
CINEMA
Film fan and linguist Cesare Popoli will offer a glimpse oF stories of resistance and liberation by masters of Italian cinema.
CURRENT GLOBAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS
The second part of the evening will be dedicated to the current and global resistance movement, led by women against today’s nazi-fascism, its threats to democracy, to human rights and the environment.
The Festa will continue with live music and special offer dinner at La giara in the Forum.
Light refreshments on arrival • Entry by donation
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FILEF and the INNER WEST COUNCIL invite you to a cultural and oral history evening as part of the Inner West Council Library and History 2018 Heritage Festival – My Culture My Story
Growing up in Sydney’s Inner West with Ken Canning
Growing up in Sydney’s Inner West in the 60s, Aboriginal boys would often find themselves on the same side as Italians and other ‘ethnics’, as targets of the bullying, if not open racism, of ‘anglo’ kids.
Over the years, progressive organizations from migrant communities, such as FILEF, regularly sided with Indigenous Australians in the struggle for their rights.
One example was the coalition “Migrants for Aboriginal Rights”, formed for the 1988 Bicentenary of the Invasion.
Ken Canning, a Murri activist and poet from the Bidjara Nation in Queensland, grew up in Leichhardt. He is Chairperson, Indigenous Social Justice Association and founding member of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney. Ken will talk on his experience growing up and also review current issues concerning the First Nations Peoples.
Q & A will follow – Light refreshments on arrival – Entry by donation
31 May 2018
TIME TO DRAW THE LINE
A contemporary David and Goliath battle, on the vexed issue of maritime boundaries between Australian and its newest and smallest neighbour, Timor Leste.
An emotional study of Australia’s long connection to Timor Leste revealing a chequered relationship of friendship and betrayal.
Frontyard Films is the film production company of Australian documentary filmmakers Amanda ‘Mandy’ King and Fabio Cavadini, who have been making films together for more than 20 years.
Click the link to the film Time to Draw the Line
La mia Liguria: 1930-1958 by Umberto Lavezzari
Umberto Lavezzari, un uomo tanto affascinante quanto difficile: intelligente e fiero, ambizioso e tenace, onesto, responsabile. Uscito non indenne da una famiglia dysfunctional, lo seguiamo attraverrso un’adolescenza di stenti fino a quando approda, non ancora trentenne, a una piena maturità orgogliosa ed impegnata, pronto a lasciare la sua amata Preli per partire con la moglie Carmen verso l’Australia.
L’autobiografia è ricca di vignette: la madre, il padre, i vicini di casa, i bottegai di Preli, i burocrati, i padroni di Genova, gli operai in Svizzera e tanti altri personaggi popolano il periodo storico del fascismo, della guerra e del dopoguerra fino agli anni Cinquanta…
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LA MIA LIGURIA 1930-1958
Celebrating the life and achievements of Umberto Lavezzari, a Genovese migrant in Sydney.
Childhood, adolescence and early years of a man: worker, artist and entrepreneur.
Songs/canzoni di Fabrizio de Andrè by Pino Scuro on guitar.
Light Geneovese finger food/assagini
Starting 6:00pm
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Photographic Exhibition & Book Launch:
LA TARANTELLA DEL FANGO (The Mud Tarantella) by Franco Baldi and Anna Maria Lo Castro
- Projection of original footage and documentary
- Q & A will follow
Light Refreshments on arrival
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