Special Event - This session will be introduced by the film’s Screenwriter and Editor Jose Luis Fernandez. Fernandez will participate in the post screening panel discussion. Entry by donation courtesy of Dendy Cinemas, arrive early to get your seat!
POST SCREENING DISCUSSION: Filming in Indigenous Communities - Experiences & Protocols
Join us for a film screening followed by panel discussion exploring experiences and protocols when filming in Indigenous communities. A diverse selection of speakers will take part in the panel to share their knowledge and experience that will be helpful for people currently working or looking to work with Indigenous communities in Australia or overseas.
Panel Speakers:
Erica Glynn
Head of Indigenous , Screen Australia
Shakthidharan
Director, Curious Works
Jose Luis Fernandez
Screenwriter & Editor, Flowers in the Desert
Dr Fernanda Peñaloza
Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Sydney
Dendy Opera Quays (details)
6:30pm Monday 6th September
This session will be introduced by the film’s Screenwriter and Editor Jose Luis Fernandez. Fernandez will participate in the post screening panel discussion. Entry by donation courtesy of Dendy Cinemas, arrive early to get your seat!
Jose Álvarez, 2009, Documentary, Mexico, 72min, Huichol, Spanish with English subtitles
In this visually arresting documentary, the Huichol people, an indigenous tribe in Mexico, offer rare access to their traditional Peyote pilgrimage to the sacred region of Wirikuta. The filmmakers were allowed unfettered access to the group’s rituals and daily lives over a two-year period with only one ceremony off limits: the deer hunt. For this they trained a few male hunters of the tribe to operate the camera turning it into a stunning collaboration between the film crew and these traditionally very private people.