The Films

JESS BEGUN

SURPRISE! DINNER IN A BOX

DUR: 20 MIN

DVD PAL

2012

Sandy Creek Organic Farm in Beerwah, Southeast Queensland Australia, supplies organic vegetables to local communities through its weekly box scheme. I asked three customers to come to lunch and create a dish with ingredients, often surprising, found in this week's veggie box. Community supported agriculture is slowly taking root in Australia. Three experts and Sandy Creek farmer Les Nicholls talk about its advantages along with farmer's markets and local foods in local supermarkets. Who will be the farmers of the future? The dining results are superb.


LIGHTS ON THE HILL

DUR: 15 MIN

DVD PAL

2012

Maleny is a small town in Queensland Australia. Maleny has the greatest number of cooperative organisations in the Southern Hemisphere. For over 30 years, Jill Jordan, beginning with the first cooperative established in 1980, was instrumental in inspiring and initiating the change from a quiet dairy farming town to a vibrant community of cooperation. In this 15-minute documentary I tell the story of this remarkable transformation using archival footage, photographs, and interviews along with conversations with community members involved in the cooperative movement.



PLATYPUS MAN

DUR: 15 MIN

DVD PAL

2008

An inspiring true story about a small town in Australia that came together to save their unique environment and way of life. For two years, from August 2003 until August 2005, the residents of Maleny, a small town in Queensland Australia, waged an intense battle to keep a major supermarket chain from coming to town. Jon Woodlands one of the heroes of the campaign became known as The Platypus Man.


SLOW DOWN, EVERYTHING’S CONNECTED

DUR: 13 MIN

DVD PAL

2011

What is a weed? Some weeds are really bad. But not everything about a weed is bad. Some natives are bad. You could be growing a weed in your garden. Go slow, everything’s connected. Land For Wildlife expert Ed Surman and Barung Landcare nursery director Wayne Webb discuss these enlightening issues about weed identification and weed control. With the help of these two passionate environmentalists, this thought provoking and informative short film explores our relationship with weeds on the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

 

 WHAT IS REAL FOOD?

DUR: 2 MIN

DVD PAL

2011/2012

Children from two local primary schools answer the question “What is Real Food?” The answers are adorable and surprising in this little promotional film in anticipating the inaugural Real Food Festival in Maleny in 2011.


RECONSTRUCTING PETER

DUR: 43 MIN

DVD PAL

2009

This moving documentary looks at the motivation of local filmmaker Peter Erdmann who has captured 30 years and 700 hours of the social history of a small town, Maleny, in Queensland Australia, with his video recorder. Maleny is a town noted for an exceptional number of cooperatives, artists, and environmentalists. It boasts the largest number of small economic cooperatives in the Southern Hemisphere. The film traces Peter’s amazing childhood in Shanghai under Japanese occupation and Communist rule until he emigrates to Australia in 1959. Peter’s father, who died when he was two, was a German film director in 1920s Berlin and his mother a Hollywood film star. Peter was born in Nara Japan in 1926. All this adds up to an intriguing story about an extraordinary 83-yeat old man, an exceptional community, and a heart-warming conclusion.

 

 BERNIE DWYER

Films written and produced:
“Double Date” is a short comedy about an injured football player whose wandering eye gets him into trouble.
“The Green Man” is a short children’s fantasy story, filmed in the beautiful Mary Cairncross rainforest.

Work on other films:
·         Video producer, camera + edit, “The Dreamscape”, Sylph Circus, Maleny 2012
·         Video producer, camera 1 + edit, “Live on Stage”, Meridan State College, 2012
·         Video producer, camera 1 + edit, “Fame – the musical”, Meridan State College, 2012
·         Video Producer, camera + edit , “Aladdin” stage pantomime, 2011, Maleny Players
·         Video Producer, camera 1 + edit, “Generation Dance 2011”, stage dance production Meridan State College, 2011
·         Video Producer, camera + edit, “Cinderella – the sequel” stage pantomime, 2010, Maleny Players
·         Sound recorder, “Feel, Felt, Found”, short independent film, screened at the Australian Film Festival, Maleny January 2008. Dir Katie lindsay.
·         1st Assistant Director, “Vengeance” re-shoot and additional scenes, student film, shot in Noosa, November 2006. Dir Matt Haskins/Nathan Hynes.
·         1st Assistant Director, “Vengeance”, student film, shot in Noosa, September 2006. Dir Matt Haskins/Nathan Hynes.
·         Location Manager and Production Assistant, “Doomsday” AKA “Axed”, shot in Maleny, April 2006. Dir Josh Long.
·         Second unit camera, “Two women and a chair”, student project, filmed in Buderim, November 2005. Prod/Dir Terry Darke.
·         Camera/Lighting, "Sins of the Father" (student project), filmed at Sunrise Beach, July 2005. Prod/Dir Jed Erakovic.
·         Camera assistant/Lighting, "Rumpus Room" (student project), filmed at Sunrise Beach & Noosa June 2005. Prod/Dir Gabriella Erakovic.
·         Unit Assistant, "Garden of Love", filmed at Flaxton & Nambour, April 2005. Dir Peter Rogers.

 

LEANNE FARMILOE

THE CLEARING
Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Adam Finney
Editing by Angus Holliday
Sound by Kevin Finney
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe

Running time 55 min
DVD PAL 16:9

A pioneer man, Henry Perryman has had his faith in God shattered after his wife and baby son die from influenza.  In his grief he is neglecting his eight-year old daughter Rose, who tries unsuccessfully bring him out of his depression.  After a planned surprise backfires, she sets off into the bush to try and find God to help. 

The title “The Clearing” refers to the clearing itself where Henry meets the Gubbi Gubbi people who help him find his way in the bush, but also to the clearing of his deep anger and bitterness, and its associated message of hope and optimism.



2009
DOUBLE SPEAK

Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Leanne Farmiloe/Jacqueline Megaw
Editing by Angus Holliday/Jacqueline Megaw
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe

Running time 5.49 min

DVD PAL 16:9
               
Double Speak features a beautiful original song by Kristina Olsen, and follows the journey of parents experiencing the birth of twins, and the joy of their first sight of them.

2010

DRAFTED
Script by Leanne Farmiloe
Production by Brisbane Film Base

Running time 5.28 min

DVD PAL 16:9

Produced as part of a five-day film course in Brisbane, “Drafted” tells the story of two boys selected for an unexpected career.

2010
CAMP OUT

Running time 26.07 min

DVD PAL 16:9

Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Lindsay McAuley
Editing by Lindsay McAuley
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe


Mum is worried when her children go for a camp out underneath their favourite tree in the bush.  It turns out her fears are valid, but help comes from an unexpected source.  This film explores the mystical and sometimes inexplicable bond between people and nature, and the sense of greater forces watching over us.  There is an underlying motif that sometimes there are near-misses in our lives that we don’t even know about. 

2011

WEEDED OUT

Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Illustrated and edited by Leanne Farmiloe
Sound by Dave Evans
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe

Running time 9 min 24 sec

DVD PAL 16:9

Thistle and Toad are sick of being classified as weeds and pests, so they go to wise old Platypus, an Australian celebrity, for advice on what to do.  She advises them to journey to Canberra and discuss with Julia Gillard about being reclassified.  However, Thistle and Toad are not keen on her proposed solution.

Featuring voices from local identities in the Blackall Ranges, this is a light-hearted look at an important environmental issue.

 

 

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