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THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN
BE HERE NOW
LADIES TROUPE (THE ANDY WHITFIELD STORY)
AUSTRALIA / DOCUMENTARY / 2016 USA / DOCUMENTARY / 2015
+ SHORT FILM : HOME + SHORT FILM : JOURNEY TO TASMANIA’S PARKS
DIRECTOR: ROS HORIN DIRECTOR: LILIBET FOSTER
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An overwhelming emotional An extraordinarily moving, deeply
experience. This is a must see... personal, filmed diary of late Gillian Armstrong “Spartacus” star Andy Whitfield’s
Four women fled from different parts
of Africa to Australia in order to escape violence and abuse. They find a safe haven in Australia, but still they hold their pain silently within them. Until
they decide to join a theatre group...
and speak out. Under the nurturing guidance of theatre director Ros Horin, they collaborate to let their life stories be transformed into an extraordinary and joyously uplifting theatrical experience, moving from pain to healing and public triumph and transforming their trauma into something cleansing, forceful and awe-inspiring.
FOLLOWED BY A Q&A; WITH DIRECTOR. JOIN US TO CELEBRATE IN THE FESTIVAL LOUNGE
FRIDAY 11.00AM - 12.30PM ANNEXE
battle with cancer.
Los Angeles Times
AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY - LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Welsh actor Andy Whitfield had been
in remission from early stage non- Hodgkin lymphoma, when a routine insurance scan revealed a subset of cancerous cells that forced him to undergo an aggressive but ultimately unsuccessful new round of treatments. That resulting physical and emotional journey undertaken by the soft-spoken Whitfield and his fiercely supportive
wife, Vashti — from hopeful defiance to philosophical acceptance, as they travel from their sunny Australian home to India and New Zealand seeking out alternative treatments, is touchingly tracked by American filmmaker Lilibet Foster.
FRIDAY 12.30 - 2.30PM TRAMSHEDS
2016 TASMANIAN BREATH OF FRESH AIR FILM FESTIVAL
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