Richard Broinowski, George W. Bush, Helen Caldicott
A year in the life of Nobel Peace Prize nominee and veteran anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott. Filmmaker (and niece) Anna Broinowski provides a unique portrait of her maverick aunt who, out of retirement, undertakes a book tour of post 9/11 America, opposing Bush’s ‘War on Terror’.
Now 64, Caldicott has lost none of the zealous passion with which she campaigned throughout the ’70s and ’80s, and Broinowski’s post-punk scepticism injects a fascinating dynamic into this unique project.
Making this documentary was clearly difficult for both subject and filmmaker, but the results are stunning.
Sydney Morning Herald
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The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face
Dir: Cathy Henkel | Australia | 2003 | 57 mins
A woman who was sexually assaulted and beaten in her suburban home by a local teenager fourteen years ago is still unable to recover. Her daughter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, returns to Johannesburg, the city of her birth, in search of justice for her mother. When the police investigation becomes bogged down, she takes matters into her own hands, seeking out and confronting the man identified by her mother as the attacker.
Cathy Henkel’s overwhelming documentary begins as a quest for justice, and emerges as a courageous revelation about the process of healing.