BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE'
A feature film written and directed by Taika Waititi (2016)

✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided

7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins

Synopsis — This adventure comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison star as a rebellious kid and his foster uncle, as a national manhunt is ordered when they go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.

Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery

This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'TOP END WEDDING'
A feature film by Wayne Blair (Australia, 2019)

✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided

7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins

Synopsis — Lauren and Ned are 2 lawyers from Adelaide recently engaged, and set out through the stunning landscapes of Northern Territory to pull off their dream wedding. Adamant she can’t get hitched without her mum, Lauren and Ned hop in the four-wheel drive and get on the road to find her after a split with her Father. A rom-com story about family, heritage and the bonds that never break.

Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery

This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

BLAK DOT GALLERY presents 'IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS'
A documentary by Maya Newell (Australia, 2019)

✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided

7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins

Synopsis — 10 year old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. As he shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him we see his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic.

We walk with him as he grapples with these pressures, shares his truths and somewhere in-between finds space to dream, imagine and hope for his future self.

Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery

This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

DEAD END FILM FESTIVAL presents
'LAND OF THE LONG WHITE CLOUD'
A documentary by Florian Habicht (New Zealand, 2009)

✿ BYO picnic & a rug
✿ family & dog friendly
✿ licensed bar, popcorn & choc tops available
✿ deck chairs provided

7.30pm | selected shorts begin
8:30pm (or dusk) | feature begins

Synopsis — Director Florian Habicht returns to his Northland home turf to chronicle the annual Snapper Classic Fishing Contest, in this full-length documentary. First prize is $50,000, but the participants chase the joy of the cast as much as the purse.

The solitary figures on the epic sweep of Ninety Mile Beach provide poetic images, as Habicht teases out homespun philosophy while fishing for answers on love, the afterlife and whether fish have feelings. The soundtrack features 50s style instrumentals from Habicht regular Marc Chesterman, plus singalongs on the sand and at the local pub.

Produced by Little Projector Company
Hosted by Siteworks & Blak Dot Gallery

This is a COVIDSafe registered event. Please stay safe and do not attend if you are feeling unwell.

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell. The film is based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body. Its title is derived from Ben E. King's eponymous song, which plays over the ending credits.

Stand by Me tells the story of four boys in a small town in Oregon who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing child. The film was nominated for one Academy Award (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and two Golden Globe Awards (for Best Motion Picture-Drama and Best Director, respectively).

Thomas Henning and Jonas Rusumalay Diaz | Timor-Leste, 2018

A surreal, fable-like meditation on life, death and spirituality in Timor-Leste, by filmmakers Thomas Henning and Jonas Rusumalay Diaz From its opening moments, as a man crawls to land from the ocean to be greeted by a lonely ghost, the new film from the Timor-Leste-based directors Diaz and Henning casts an evocative, haunting spell that appears to hover somewhere in the twilight dimension between life and death. The female ghost tells a tale of how she once haunted an unhappily married Timorese couple, while a mysterious, bedraggled wedding singer wanders the landscape with his acoustic guitar, and the stories dance around and fold into each other. Cinematographer Giovanni C Lorusso conjures a striking dreamscape of light and shadow, while the film’s use of multiple exposures and double-tracked dialogue suggests a world lingering on the fringes of reality. A startling work – doubly so given the rarity of films from Timor-Leste.