A new documentary featuring some of Australia’s most prominent musicians is being used to show the sense of community among asylum seekers ahead of Refugee Week.
John and Lizzi Swatland’s Scattered People follows Mas and Saha, two young Iranian asylum seeker musicians, as they navigate a new world of immigration detention.
Forced to flee their homes for the crime of making music, they are isolated from everything known and familiar. In immigration detention, the pair discover the Scattered People band, and through a shared love of music, once again find hope, community and a way to be heard.
Led by founder, Brian Procopis, with members including Gang Gajang’s Robbie James, the Scattered People band not only perform for but incorporate refugees – including Mas and Saha, in writing, performing, and recording songs.
The film features interviews with interviews with musicians including Missy Higgins, John Butler, Dan Sultan, Archie Roach,...
John and Lizzi Swatland’s Scattered People follows Mas and Saha, two young Iranian asylum seeker musicians, as they navigate a new world of immigration detention.
Forced to flee their homes for the crime of making music, they are isolated from everything known and familiar. In immigration detention, the pair discover the Scattered People band, and through a shared love of music, once again find hope, community and a way to be heard.
Led by founder, Brian Procopis, with members including Gang Gajang’s Robbie James, the Scattered People band not only perform for but incorporate refugees – including Mas and Saha, in writing, performing, and recording songs.
The film features interviews with interviews with musicians including Missy Higgins, John Butler, Dan Sultan, Archie Roach,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
This year, Australia.s longest running children.s series, Play School, celebrates 50 years on air. To mark the occasion, ABC Kids has enlisted some famous faces to join with Big Ted and Humpty Dumpty to host a special series. Entitled Play School Celebrity Covers, the mini-episodes will feature a lineup of popular Australian personalities, actors and musicians turning their hand to being a Play School presenter, either performing a song or reading a story. Daily episodes will air from July 4 on ABC Kids, as well as on iview. Featuring in Play School Celebrity Covers are: Adam Goodes, Annabel Crabb with Leigh Sales, Architecture in Helsinki, Benita Collings with Don Spencer, Bernard Fanning, Carrie Bickmore, Costa Georgiadis, Dami Im, Dan Sultan, Delta Goodrem, Emma Wiggle, Guy Sebastian, Hamish and Andy, Jeremy Fernandez, John Hamblin, Josh Thomas, Kate Ceberano with her daughter Gypsy, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan, Kurt Fearnley with Rachael Coopes,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
One of the Aria Awards producers has agreed to help stage this year's National Indigenous Music Awards. Australian music industry veteran Mark Pope recently visited the amphitheatre in Darwin to start planning the event in August, and said that he wants to celebrate the Indigenous music industry and help artists realise their dreams. Pope told The ABC: "Young kids see those artists, see Dan Sultan performing, or Jessica [Mauboy] or Gurrumul, it resonates and it shines a light on what they could possibly do in terms of music. [They can] dare to dream, which is a good thing." He also said that the Australian public began to take more notice of Indigenous music last year when the awards went national. "There is something good going on here, because it is resonating in the southern states," Pope explained. "There is a lot of good (more)...
- 1/11/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Spicks and Specks has pulled nearly 1.6m viewers in its final episode ever to bring the ABC to fourth place for week 48.
The music quiz show finished with a big line-up of regular guests including Geoffrey Rush, Dan Sultan, Brian Mannix and Rhonda Burchmore.
Week 48 was full of finales as it marks the last week of the ratings period.
While Spicks and Specks won its Wednesday night, comedian Julia Morris won Celebrity Apprentice as the program won Monday night with 1.688m viewers.
The X Factor Winner Announced won the week and Tuesday night with 2.026m viewers as teen Reece Mastin took out Sony record contract top prize.
On Thursday night Sarah and Lachlan won Beauty and the Geek which took top honours with 1.255m.
Top 20 shows in Week 48
1. The X Factor – The Winner – Seven – 2,026,000
2. The X Factor – Tuesday – Seven – 1,724,000
3. The Celebrity Apprentice – The Winner – Nine – 1,688,000
4. Spicks And Specks Finale – ABC...
The music quiz show finished with a big line-up of regular guests including Geoffrey Rush, Dan Sultan, Brian Mannix and Rhonda Burchmore.
Week 48 was full of finales as it marks the last week of the ratings period.
While Spicks and Specks won its Wednesday night, comedian Julia Morris won Celebrity Apprentice as the program won Monday night with 1.688m viewers.
The X Factor Winner Announced won the week and Tuesday night with 2.026m viewers as teen Reece Mastin took out Sony record contract top prize.
On Thursday night Sarah and Lachlan won Beauty and the Geek which took top honours with 1.255m.
Top 20 shows in Week 48
1. The X Factor – The Winner – Seven – 2,026,000
2. The X Factor – Tuesday – Seven – 1,724,000
3. The Celebrity Apprentice – The Winner – Nine – 1,688,000
4. Spicks And Specks Finale – ABC...
- 11/28/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Bran Nue Dae, directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Ms. Perkins, Mr. Chi and Reg Cribb, follows the rebellious odyssey of Willie (Rocky McKenzie), a goody-goody Aboriginal teenager who runs away from the Catholic boarding school in Perth where he is the pet student of its insufferably paternalistic priest, Father Benedictus (a silly Geoffrey Rush).
Once Willie flees, Bran Nue Dae turns into a singing and dancing road movie whose Oz-like destination is his hometown of Broome, 3,000 miles away in western Australia. Father Benedictus, who gives chase in his Mercedes, suffers sundry comic humiliations while on the road. To reach Broome, Willie teams up with Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge), a hippie couple in a van winding their way through the Australian outback.
Accompanying them is Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a free-spirited old drunk whom Willie meets at a homeless camp. Tadpole might be described as the story.s tipsy,...
Once Willie flees, Bran Nue Dae turns into a singing and dancing road movie whose Oz-like destination is his hometown of Broome, 3,000 miles away in western Australia. Father Benedictus, who gives chase in his Mercedes, suffers sundry comic humiliations while on the road. To reach Broome, Willie teams up with Annie (Missy Higgins) and Slippery (Tom Budge), a hippie couple in a van winding their way through the Australian outback.
Accompanying them is Uncle Tadpole (Ernie Dingo), a free-spirited old drunk whom Willie meets at a homeless camp. Tadpole might be described as the story.s tipsy,...
- 9/14/2010
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Running barely 85 minutes including credits, Bran Nue Dae is a whisp of a musical, a brightly-colored, briskly-paced confection based on a popular Australian stage show. The songs aren't exactly the catchiest, its message of tolerance far from new, but it sure is lively while it lasts.
It's 1969 in the harbor town of Broome, and clean-cut Aborigine teen Willy (Rocky McKenzie) is torn between his mother's insistence that he become a priest and the prospect of summer love with Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). It isn't long until a real stud, cowboy crooner Lester (Dan Sultan), comes along and makes up Willy's mind for him by luring Rosie away with a singing gig in a saloon. Defeated, our young hero leaves for boarding school in Perth to study under Headmaster Benedictus (Geoffrey Rush), but once it becomes apparent that the priest has no mercy for the natives he's trying to teach, Willy hits the road,...
It's 1969 in the harbor town of Broome, and clean-cut Aborigine teen Willy (Rocky McKenzie) is torn between his mother's insistence that he become a priest and the prospect of summer love with Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). It isn't long until a real stud, cowboy crooner Lester (Dan Sultan), comes along and makes up Willy's mind for him by luring Rosie away with a singing gig in a saloon. Defeated, our young hero leaves for boarding school in Perth to study under Headmaster Benedictus (Geoffrey Rush), but once it becomes apparent that the priest has no mercy for the natives he's trying to teach, Willy hits the road,...
- 9/12/2010
- by William Goss
- Cinematical
I suspect that I'm like many people who don't live in Australia in that, well, I don't know very much about Australia. Or rather, I didn't until recently, until I traveled there to visit some long-lost family for most of January. Once I got there, and got settled in, I can say without hyperbole that I absolutely didn't want to leave. Australia fascinated me more than any place I've ever been (admittedly through a tourist's rosy glasses) -- the people are all fit, handsome, and friendly as hell, the food is fantastic and the beer tasty, the beaches will stop you in your tracks with their beauty, the weather is perfect, public transportation (at least in Sydney and Melbourne, where I was) is a breeze, and everyone seems genuinely happy. After two weeks, I wanted everyone I know to move there. Seriously, all of you (except for the jackasses) ... let's move to Australia.
- 1/25/2010
- by TK
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