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SUMMARY:Ballarat Film Society - White Riot
DESCRIPTION:In late 1970s Britain\, fascists and racists were gaining ground\, extending their influence across popular culture. \nThis film documents a vital London protest movement established in response. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976\, during a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth\, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. \n‘An excellent documentary about a heroic grassroots political movement whose importance reveals itself more clearly in retrospect with every year that passes’. (The Guardian) \nRoadshow.\nWhite Riot\, UK\, 2019\, 81 min.\nDirector: Rubika Shah.
URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/bfs-white-riot/
LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350
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SUMMARY:Ballarat Film Society - De Gaulle
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the 32nd Alliance Françoise French Film Festival in Melbourne\, we are screening the latest spectacularly mounted biopic on Charles de Gaulle. \nIn Paris\, 1940\, France is facing military and political collapse as World War 11 intensifies. The government panics and considers accepting defeat however on June 18th the BBC provides 4 minutes of airtime to Charles de Gaulle\, the leader in exile to address the people of France: a speech that history regards as a formative moment for the French Resistance. \nThe film focuses on just 2 months as events spiral out of control and de Gaulle’s family must set out on the roads of exodus whilst he travels to London to meet Winston Churchill. So revered was de Gaulle as a national figure in France\, when his death was announced in 1970 his successor Georges Pompidou announced: ‘General de Gaulle is dead. France is a widow’. \nPalace Films. \n\n\n\n\nFrance\, 2020\, 108 min.\nDirector: Gabriel Le Bomin.
URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/bfs-de-gaulle/
LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350
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SUMMARY:Ballarat Film Society - Heroic Losers
DESCRIPTION:We begin with a comedy to start the year on a happy note. Set in 2001\, when Argentina was at a low point economically\, retired soccer star Fermin joins with other locals to finance a grain co-operative that falls prey to a deceptive banker. \nConsequently\, they band together to steal back the money. Revenge has never felt so satisfying – or sweetly ironic. With a cast of characters that are likable and convincing\, the film was a hit with Argentinian and worldwide audiences alike. \nWinner of the 2020 Spanish Academy Awards for Best Ibero-American Film. \nPalace Films. \nArgentina\, 2019\, 116 min.\nDirector: Sebastian Borensztein.
URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/bfs-heroic-losers/
LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:The River Moorabool | Ballarat
DESCRIPTION:This film explains why this unique river\, travelling from the Wombat Forests near Ballarat to the Barwon River at Geelong\, is in trouble.\n\n\n“The River Moorabool” promotes alternative urban water supplies that would increase its flow and resilience in a changing climate. \nAbout 90% of the Moorabool’s natural flow is taken for human use. Dams in the upper catchment trap water for Geelong and Ballarat. More is trapped in farm dams\, so never makes the river. \nA lower stretch of the river near Geelong is concreted\, but this is badly broken\, so water soaks into the cement quarry for which the river’s course was twice shifted back in the 1900s. \nFurther downstream\, the river was turned into a concrete channel. The Moorabool’s flow often does not make it to the Barwon River. \nIn 2007-8\, the river stopped flowing because water behind the Bungal Dam was diverted to Ballarat rather than being allowed down the river. \nThe environmental flow is a small fraction of that extracted for human use. \n\n\nThe Moorabool’s health is suffering because of: \n\nThe increasing water use by Ballarat and Geelong\n\n\nIntensive farming activities\n\n\nThe spread of weeds along the river and its tributaries\n\n\n\nThe film discusses new sources of water for cities – such as recycling\, storm water reuse\, desalination – and rationalization of farm dams. \n\n\n“The river needs a more resilient and environmentally secure future with greater flows and improved catchment management\, including more riparian revegetation.” \n\n\nThe film presents interviews with a Wadawurrung man\, farmers\, scientists\, landcare proponents\, and river campaigners that explain the river’s history\, characteristics\, problems and possible solutions. The diversity of scenery along the river is a strong feature of the film. \n\n\nThe film was made by “People for A Living Moorabool” and “Sheoaks Films”. \nPeople for A Living Moorabool (PALM) formed during April 2008 in response to the dire condition of the Moorabool River. \nThe PALM Charter reads: \n“Our group unites those who want to keep the full length of the Moorabool River alive. This one idea of a ‘living Moorabool’ is our guiding principle. It means that our commitment to be a voice for the river will override any support for the rights of particular water users. We have a single focus – the right of this magnificent\, but highly stressed river\, to an effective environmental flow. We are motivated by the politics of unity not division.” \nPALM and the Geelong Landcare Network support each other in advocating for the Moorabool River and catchment management. \n\n\nThis event is being supported by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute.
URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/the-river-moorabool-ballarat/
LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia
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