Showing posts with label Publisher: ABC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Publisher: ABC. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2014
* Barbara Walters: Her Story (2014)
Television legend Barbara Walters is honored in a two hour primetime special celebrating her life and legacy.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
* Dancing With Dictators (2011)
Ross Dunkley is a mix of pragmatism and idealism: he is a free speech warrior prepared to do business in a country dominated by the dead hand of the military dictatorship. Originally, influential liberals supported Dunkley's newspaper because they wanted reform but four years later a hardline crackdown saw his colleagues jailed and Dunkley hanging on by his finger nails. Set against the background of the country's first election in 20 years, "Dancing With Dictators" is an observational documentary about Burma from the inside.Those outside the country see the election as a sham - for many inside the country, including the paper's journalists, this is an opportunity they cannot afford to turn their back on a chance for a step towards democracy no matter how limited. The film was made with considerable risk to the filmmakers and to the participants. The film-makers presence during the election does not go unnoticed and four days after the vote they are deported, focussing attention on Dunkley. Shortly afterwards the hardliners strike again and Dunkley is arrested and charged with immigration offences linked to an alleged assault on a woman. He spends seven weeks in Burma's notorious Insein prison before being granted bail and appears in court over 20 times. Once free, he remains committed to regaining control of the newspaper and continuing the fight for freedom of speech in a country he has grown to love.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
* Parer's War (2014)
Based on a true story, Parers War tells the story of WWII cameraman Damien Parer. Battling his own demons, his work won Australias first Oscar but almost cost him the woman he loved.
* Miracle In The Desert (2013)
Robert Bogucki went missing in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert in July, 1999. Bogucki survived 43 days and was eventually found some 400km from his departure point by an Australian television news helicopter. He'd lost 30 kilograms, endured six weeks without food and 12 days without water but miraculously survived one of the world's most inhospitable wildernesses. Bogucki is not a typical adventurer. He is not interested in being the first or the fastest. Nor is he interested in fame or notoriety. He decided to cross the Australian Great Sandy Desert in an attempt to find solitude in one of the world's last untamed wildernesses. When tourists happened upon Bogucki's abandoned bicycle and supplies on a remote desert track, one of the largest manhunts in Australian history was launched. Australian police and local Aboriginal trackers struggled to follow Bogucki's tracks through almost impenetrable bush. After 15 days, the search was called off. Refusing to believe their son had perished in the desert, Bogucki's parents hired a volunteer American search and rescue team to travel to Broome, in what many believed would be a body retrieval exercise...
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