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Sydney Film Festival 2009
Accessible Cinema
Program Opening Address : Professor Ron McCallum AO
Saturday 6 June 2009
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Professor Ron McCallum, AO has recently been appointed the Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He will be responsible for reporting to the UN General Assembly on the recommendations and activities of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Professor Ron McCallum AO was the foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Industrial Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney. He took up this position in January 1993, the first full professorship in industrial law at any Australian university. Ron is the first person with an experience of being blind to have been appointed to a full professorship in any field at any university in Australia or New Zealand. Professor McCallum discusses his experience of cinema as a person who is blind from his pre-television childhood times to the current progression of technology which allows people who are blind or with low vision to fully experience cinema.
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Representation and Engagement Forum : Genevieve Clay
Sunday 7 June 2009
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Genevieve Clay: Emerging filmmaker and writer/director of short film Be My Brother, which won first prize at Movie Extra Tropfest 2009, the world’s largest short film festival. Be My Brother is the story of how a charismatic young man, who happens to have Downs Syndrome, challenges the prejudices of a stranger at a bus stop. Genevieve presents her experience of meeting and working with Gerard Odwyer, who won best actor at Movie Extra Tropfest 2009 for the lead role in Be My Brother. She discusses the process of producing a film that is inclusive and accessible for actors and film crew with disability.
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Representation and Engagement Forum : Safina Uberoi
Sunday 7 June 2009
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Safina Uberoi: Filmmaker and director/producer of A Good Man, which shared first prize for the inaugural 2009 Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize at Sydney Film Festival 2009. Safina’s documentary is about, ‘a struggling Australian farmer, his quadriplegic wife, their newborn baby and their plans to open a brothel in a small country town’. It captures the many elements within Rachel and Chris’ lives - love, family, small town attitudes, the sex industry, tragedy, disability, family, barriers and humour. Safina shares her experience of making this film, her owns fears, preconceptions and misconceptions about people with disability and how A Good Man has enriched her life.
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