SHOALHAVEN FIRST NATIONS FILM FESTIVAL (SFNFF) 2024
About
The Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (SFNFF) celebrates First Nations producers, directors, screenwriters, actors and communities, both within the Shoalhaven and across Australia.Providing a platform for First Nations Peoples’ voices and stories, through film, it will contribute to the process of truth-telling and help to build understanding amongst non-Indigenous people of the culture, connection to country and resilience of Aboriginal People, and of the issues faced by them.
Dates: 20th, 21st and 22nd September 2024
Venue: Huskisson Pictures, 19 Sydney St Huskisson
PROGRAM
Supported through the Festival’s 6 sessions:
- Friday night opening
Opening Night Party at Huskisson Community Centre 5:30pm-6:45pm
Friday evening session 7:00pm
Telling stories of post colonisation resilience using humour and music
Doco: Occupation Native (2017) Trish Morton Thomas (52 mins)
INTERMISSION
Feature film: Sweet As (2021) Jub Clerc (1 hr 27 mins)
- Saturday early afternoon session 1:40pmStories that tell it as it is…the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture
Short film: Nice Coloured Girls (1987) Tracey Moffat (16 mins)
Feature film: Emu Runner (2018) Imogen Thomas (1 hr 35 mins) - Saturday late afternoon session 3:40pm Stories of coming of age between two worlds
Short film: Bluey (2013) Darene Johnson (14 mins)
Feature film: Spear (2015) Stephen Page (1 hr 44 mins) - Saturday evening session 7:45pm Stories told through short films by current generation of Indigenous filmmakers – plus a local treasure…
Short films: The Driver (2020) Elias Rees (4 minutes)
Doco: Pills & Powder Milk (2021) Nazareth Alfred (4 mins)
Short films: Flickerfest Indigenous Showcase (1 hr 38 mins)
- Sunday early morning session 9:00am Aboriginal activism – first captured on film in 1933, continues until today
Doco: Joe Anderson (1933) (newsreel) (3 mins)
Feature film: Ablaze (2021) (based on White Justice 1946) Tiriki Onus (1 hr 20 mins)
- Sunday morning tea, a chance to socialise with other festival goers 10.30am - 11.00am
Sunday late morning session 11:00am
Stories of resilience
Doco: My Survival As An Aboriginal (1978) Essey Coffey (49 mins)
Doco: We Come From The Land (1988) Fabio Cavadini & Mandy King (27 mins)
Doco: We Are Still Here (2021), Aunty Lindy Lawler (5 mins)
Short: Oola-Boola-Woo (2020), Children of Coomaditchie (3 mins)
INTERMISSION
Doco: Still We Rise (2023) John Harvey (60 mins)
Legend: What are the ratings? | Australian Classification
Location
Huskisson Pictures
19 Sydney St, Huskisson NSW 2540
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