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The Screening Room:
World's Greatest Documentaries
The First Wednesday of Every Month
$15/ $12
The first Wednesday of every month - we have the remedy to satisfy your documentary needs with a screening program of some of the world's greatest documentaries.
The Screening Room is co-presented by the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) and Media Resource Centre (MRC) and supported by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA.
Phone 8410 1934
LAST TRAIN HOME || THE SNOWMAN || CRUDE || THIS WAY OF LIFE
BANANAS!* || THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
7:45pm Wednesday 1 June
Waterlife
Director Kevin McMahon This stunning ode to the last great supply of fresh water on earth, the Great Lakes, immerses us in their extraordinary beauty, ecological complexity, and extreme state of distress. Under assault on all fronts by a deadly combination of industrial toxins, sewage, invasive species, climate change, and profound apathy, they are on the verge of irreversible collapse. Director Kevin McMahon navigates with fluid clarity through industrial intervention and natural splendor, from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, using breathtaking cinematography and CGI to show us the waters 35 million people drink every day. Propelled by a soaring, evocative soundtrack, this eloquent poetic essay allows us to absorb hard information gracefully balanced with a visceral understanding of how we are inextricably linked to the fate of these waters, transforming the way we think and inspiring us act before it’s too late. Winner: Specidal Jury Prize for Canadian Feature, 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. |
7:00pm Wednesday 4 May
LAST TRAIN HOME
Director Lixin Fan A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
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7:00pm Wednesday 6 APRIL
The Snowman
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Director Juliet Lamont In 1978 Juliet Lamont’s father Jimmy, a 33-year-old, happily married father of 2, scored his dream job with Operation Deepfreeze - training NASA astronauts in survival skills in Antarctica. He left in December of that year. Three months later he was medevac’d out and arrived home agitated and paranoid. He said that while out on a snowcat he had stumbled onto an illegal nuclear dump and that the CIA had given him a chemical lobotomy. Jimmy rapidly descended into schizophrenia. His behaviour became so frightening that his wife Frances finally took off with Juliet and her brother Sean. For almost 3 decades his family were convinced that something had happened in that frozen continent. The man they loved went away sane and came back permanently fractured – as Juliet says ‘his mind was a blizzard’. Like a dark fairy tale, this story consumed their lives. Winner: FOXTELL Australian Documentary Prize |
7:00pm Wednesday 2 Feburary
CRUDE
Director Joe Berlinger Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST, METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.. Winner: Best Documentaries of the Year National Board of Review Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers |
7:00pm Wednesday 3 December
This way of life (pg)
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Dir: Thomas Burstyn / Prod: Barbara Sumner Burstyn Against isolated mountains in New Zealand, Peter and Colleen Karena raise their six children on the thin edge between disaster and freedom, uniting their philosophy with their circumstances, turning hardship into a meaningful and satisfying life. This complete immersion in another way of life reveals that the price of freedom is something that is well worth paying. Crystal Bear - Special Mention: Berline International Film Festival 2010 Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers |
7:00pm Wednesday 3 Novembers
Bananas!* (E18+)
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Dir: Fredrik Gertten BANANAS!* is a suspenseful, layer-peeling, court room drama chronicle contextualized within the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics. Directed by Fredrik Gertten, Sweden’s pre-eminent documentarian and investigative journalist, BANANAS!* focuses on a slippery fact trail and a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation and its alleged usage of a deadly banned pesticide and its probable link to generations of sterilized workers. Winner Audience Award: FICA Environmental Film Festival Brazil Screening followed by Q&A with the Director Fredrik Gertten |
7:00pm Wednesday 1 September
ADelaide PREMIERE
the most dangerous man in america:Daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers (PG)
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Dir: Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan. This political thriller is a riveting story of how one man’s profound change of heart leads directly to Watergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Academy Award nomination of Best Documentary 2010 |