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Screen LESTER BOSTOCK SCHEME |
The
Lester Bostock Scheme is a joint initiative between Metro Screen
+ the NSW Film & Television Office
Do you have story that you want to turn into a film!
From experimental, to documentary and drama, Metro Screen will look
at all applications based on a story idea that can be told in a
five minute short film.
PAST PARTICIPANTS
Wayne Blair and Rayma Johnston and Melissa Abrahams have won Deadly
Awards for their films. Adrian Wills won the Tadawalli Award for
Best Original Concept for a Short Film. Phillip McLarne is now an
internationally published and award winning writer and Lee Willis-Ardler
is a TV director, writer and presenter. Anita Heiss is currently
working on an Indigenous TV series with the assistance of the AFC.
You could join them! It really is a great learning experience for
people with ideas, vision and commitment!
“Aboriginal people have been master story tellers since
the dreamtime, the chance to tell our stories on film is just an
extension of our oral story telling history.” Melissa
Abrahams, Lester Bostock graduate.
THE MENTORSHIP
The Lester Bostock program produces four films annually and provide
each participant with: equipment, stock, post production facilities,
and a $2,000 budget. In addition each filmmaker is mentored by an
industry professional.
AND films also screen at the Museum of Sydney during NAIDOC week.
Find out more: call [02] 9356 1818
and speak to David Opitz or email him on d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au
Download 2008 application kit below:
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LESTER BOSTOCK SCHEME Productions 2007 |
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BLIND
DATE
By Rowena Lawrie
Mentor: Samantha Saunders
Sometimes we meet a stranger who becomes unstrange. In the
remote city lights, an unlikely date with destiny leaves an
imprint on Rob's world forever. A startling revelation gives
him a new direction toward his dreaming. |
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KICK
IT TO ME
By Melodie-Jane Gibson
Mentor: Catriona McKenzie
Mick ‘Deadly’ Menzies is a retired football champion.
He is determined his son, Lance will follow in his footsteps
but it’s his daughter, Grace with the talent to play
footy and the passion to play her own game! |
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FLOWERBOY
By Daniel Randal
Mentor: Dean Francis
The Flower boy himself, so named by his mother, is not aware
of his place in life. He thinks only of the hard walk up the
hill, only of his most immediate sense of space and time.
He must learn to look outside himself to see the effect his
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WHO
ARE YOU?
By Mark McMillian
Mentor: Alec Morgan
Does society force people to hide parts of who they are within
themselves? And, can those parts ever be allowed to exist
as a whole? Who Are You gives a snapshot into a few peoples
lives, prejudices and identity. |
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Screen LESTER
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BLACK
BEACH
Director: Grant Leigh Saunders
A fast paced, satirical look at beach access, rites of passage
and ownership from the perspective of an Aboriginal and mischievously
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REFLECTIONS
IN BLACK AND WHITE
Director: Elizabeth Paavola
Depicts an Aboriginal girl's taboo questioning of her identity.
The more she questions her Aboriginality and the more her
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SUSAN´S
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Director: Maureen Logan
From her first day at school Susan is thrown into the painful
dilemma of thinking she has to choose between the acceptances
of her disbelieving school friends or defiantly claiming her
“Goori” identity.
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FUTUREMAN
Director: Adam Wade Brown
This FUTUREMAN short starts in 1968. Jimmie Barker tribal
leader of the Muruwari‚s located in northern N.S.W hears
a voice from the sky, which announces himself as Z-FORCE.
With a lightning crack and Z‚ scorched into the ground,
Z-FORCE gives Jimmie advice of the saviour to come. |
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Screen LESTER
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Productions 2005 |
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MABO
Writer/Director: Philip Mclaren
Violent electrical storms across Australia mystically connect
hundreds of Indigenous youths who set off on a graffiti awareness
campaign.. Using chalk, they write one word in beautiful copperplate
… Mabo. Their marks are washed away by the next rainfall,
but are quickly replaced.
Mentor: writer/director Lee Willis-Ardler
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MEMORY
Writer/Director: Michelle Blanchard
Memory is a film about the extraordinary resilience of love,
and its power to transcend cultural boundaries. It is also
about the finality of death, and the ironic opportunity it
can give us in terms of a moment of liberation. How does the
death of someone we love affect us and move us to re-examine
who we are and where we are going?
Mentor: writer/director Darlene Johnson
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UNSTUCK
Writer/Director: Rayma Johnston
Sometimes it’s those that have left us in life that
come back to give us the spiritual Understanding, Nurturing
Strength Truth Unity Courage and Know-how to become UNSTUCK
and continue on in life without them.
Mentor: writer/director Wayne Blair |
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YEARN
Writer/Director: Kirstie Parker
Ruby doesn’t respond well to criticism, especially of
those she loves.
Yearn is about the spoken and often unspoken disapproval often
experienced by people who are “different”, and
the solidarity and loyalty forged among those that share that
mantle of exclusion. It is also about love, and how it is
made stronger through a defiant unity.
Mentor: writer/director Lee Willis-Ardler
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Screen LESTER
BOSTOCK SCHEME
Productions 2004 |
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The
Wiradjuri Fight To The Bitter End
Debbie Gilbert
This is compelling five minute documentary portrays
in an indigenous framework the destruction and desecration
of the Wiradjuri People's sacred site by a foreign company,
Barrick Gold. |
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Checkerboard
Love
Anita Heiss
A drama, which demonstrates the tension between an interracial
couple that are in love, who consciously de-Aboriginalise
their flat in preparation for the dreaded meeting of
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Feel
My Absence
Kyas Sherriff
Examines how people daily interact and are affected
by strangers in their own daily lives. People you have
never met create and affect the pattern of your day
and it is not until they are gone do you see or feel
the relationship you shared with them on a non-verbal
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Camping
Out
Lee Willis-Ardler
Camping Out is a short film about a sister, two brothers
and a girlfriend. It’s a comical look at the diversity
of the siblings and their understanding of their Aboriginality.
It showcases the beauty of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal
community on the NSW South Coast. |
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Harriet's
Daughter
Angela Stanley
A documentary on Madge Doreen Warren; the last surviving witness
of the Mungadai aboriginal massacre. A brave woman who is
reuniting with her family for perhaps the last time, as she
has been diagnosed with cancer. |
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Home
Tim Leha
A short film about identity and belonging. What happens when
your father dies and you realise that you are not indigenous? |
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Do
What You Want
John Bell
A comic short film set in the 1950’s about racial segregation
in Northern NSW |
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Robin
Hoods
Dennis J. Simmons
A cheeky tale about two mischevious boys. |
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Screen TIM LEHA PROFILE - LBS 2003 FILMMAKER |
Khi-lee
Thorpe catches up with Tim Leha about family, food + filmmaking...
name: Tim
Leha
where are you from?
My Mother is a Kamilaroi
Woman + my Father is Tongan
where do you live?
The Far South Coast- Wallaga Lake
what’s your favourite food?
Anything with Yogurt or Coconut
milk
what’s your favourite film?
Millers Crossing- the Cohen Brothers
how young are you?
23
have you made a movie before?
No this is the first time.
what have you done in the past?
I went to Canberra Uni to do Media
Production, which included a creative writing course.
At Uni I was involved in the Indigenous Student Network as I am
very interested in both Indigenous and Student politics. I have
been a Volunteer Carer- helping our Elders and listening to their
stories.
I have also done Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing before- working
for the Narooma High School Indigenous Magazine.
what are your plans for the future?
I want to gain the experience and
skills so that I can help my people.
what did you think of the LBS so far?
I loved the Digital
Micro Movie course!! I knew a bit about using cameras
but it was great to go over all the aspects needed to make a film. |
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Tim
Leha | photo by Khi-lee Thorpe
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production meeting | photo by Khi-lee Thorpe |
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Screen LESTER
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Screening 2002 |
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Screen LESTER
BOSTOCK SCHEME
Productions 2002 |
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Aunty
Vicki and the Doolagah
Thomas
Avery
Along
the coast, and in the forests of NSW there is a spirit,
a bad spirit. In 1932 a young girl had a frightening
encounter with this spirit. He is called the Doolagah. |
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An
Urban Love Story
Chris
Bonney
Marla
is a Ngarrunga woman who lives in Kings Cross. She's
seen the seedier side of life. Sunfly is a travelling
cowboy from the Kimberley's. Can their feelings for
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The
Crossing
Emma Carroll
When
nothing can shield a father from loss, he allows the
sadness to leave him hollow. But is confronting even
the most overwhelming grief really more dangerous than
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In
as much
Jason
Pitt
She
is a megalomaniac and the most popular girl in class.
Will her endless demands for attention ultimately prove
to be her downfall? A choreographed dance about the
difficulties of finding love. |
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Screen LESTER BOSTOCK SCHEME Productions in Profile 2002 |
Emma
Carroll
"Perhaps
the most exciting thing that has happened to me all year,
aside from leaving home for the first time in my whole eighteen
years, moving to the Big City + starting a Media Course at
a Uni, was being accepted into Metro Screen's LBS film makers
program.
The story I wrote for my short film 'The Crossing' examines
mistakes, + how sometimes it seems there is nothing we can
say or do to change them. A Father is caught in a seemingly
endless loop of guilt as he tries, in vain, to make up for
the death of his young Son. Is it really the boy's ghost punishing
him?
It's not often I'll be given an opportunity like this one.
So in just five minutes I have to really try + make a lasting
impression on the audience, such as the impression made upon
me through LBS." |
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Tom
Avery
"Born
6/4/1948, I only just missed April fools day. I'm glad the
LBS is for new film makers, and not young ones, so I qualified.
Although a shrink once told me I had the attention span of
a 3 year old. I think she was wrong I'm at least 8, so maybe
I am young enough.
I left school in 1963, travelled around Australia. I joined
the navy in 1967, saw a lot of the world, including Vietnam,
lived all over Australia and in two overseas countries New
Guinea, and New Zealand. I am married with 3 children, I have
sold art in various forms to the USA, Japan, and a number
of European countries. I also have a cd of didgeridoo music
called "sounds of the rainbow" and later this year
I will be participating in an art exhibition in Vienna.
My film 'Aunty Vicki and the Doolagah' is about a true incident
that occurred in the Ulladulla area in 1932. One night a young
girl saw a bad spirit called the Doolagah terrorise her front
yard. That girl is still alive today and is now in her eighties.
'Aunty Vicki and the Doolagah' will be part doco, part re-enactment.
This spirit lives throughout Australia, and is known by many
different names." |
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Screen LESTER
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Starr
- Michelle
Blakeney
Starr
is a stylised film set in New York in the 1930s about
a twenty-four year old high society socialite whose
spirit is slowly drowned by the memories of her past.
Michelle is a first time filmmaker with previous experience
in photography and theatre. She is also writing an indigenous
children's fairytale.
"Documenting peoples lives truthfully is a healing
process for everyone to see and as Jack Davis once said,
" The greatest gift that white man gave us is
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Listen
- Paula Maling
Listen
is an acoustical journey of discovery. From birth everyone
has the gift of innocence, as time passes our gift can
get lost but with the help from our own memories and
spiritual assistance, all one has to do is listen.
Paula is also a first time filmmaker who is currently
a journalist at SBS Radio Sydney and is in the process
of completing her first feature film script and television
sitcom.
"The most interesting, humorous, courageous
and adventurous lives all belong to indigenous Australians". |
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- Melissa Abrahams
11.11
by Melissa Abrahams
11.11 is a mystical suspense about an aboriginal woman's
psychic powers.
Melissa is a first time filmmaker who is currently producing
and co-directing her first documentary. Her stories
are inspired by our past history, people and amazing
places.
"Aboriginal people have been master story tellers
since the dreamtime, the chance to tell our stories
on film is just an extension of our oral story telling
history. Now we can finally let the truth be known and
let our imaginations soar". |
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Metro Screen is a community-based, non-profit organisation
with a long-standing commitment to providing training and
support for the development of Indigenous screen media. |
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Screen LESTER BOSTOCK SCHEME Contact |
Media
inquiries:
02 9356 1818 or marketing@metroscreen.org.au
If
you require further information about the Lester Bostock
Scheme, please contact:
David Opitz on
P: 02 9356 1818 F: 02 9361
5320 E: d.opitz@metroscreen.org.au
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