Mar
2012 10
2012 10
Editorial
Recently there has been quite vigorous discussion about the absence of cultural diversity in Australian film and television. While these discussions are not new, its great to see the articles hitting the mainstream press, and bringing to the fore a critical whiteness reading of the film and television industry. Unfortunately, Australia’s...
Mar
2012 9
2012 9
Q&A – Sofie Kim
Added to the long list of career highlights including Music/TV/Documentary producer, Sofie Kim promotes Korea to Australians – with a difference…within the music industry. From the Korean Rock Festivals of Pentaport (introducing artists such as Eskimo Joe, The Grates, End of Fashion) and Busan to Club gigs in Incheon, Sofie’s work of cross...
Mar
2012 9
2012 9
Q&A – Dominic Golding
Dominic completed his Honors in Directing and Politics in 1999 at Flinders University. In November 1999 he was awarded the R.A. Simpson International Traveling Scholarship to Vietnam, and has a MA in Theatre Arts from Monash University, graduating in 2010. Dominic has worked with Huu Tran, Tony Le Nguyen, and Vietnamese Youth Media as an ...
Mar
2012 9
2012 9
Q&A – Chris Pang
Chris Pang, the son of two martial arts instructors, is an Australian actor who played lead character “Lee” in the Australian box office hit “Tomorrow When The War Began” which excelled to be highest grossing Australian film of the 2010 and also went on to break DVD sales records in Australia. Pang’s acting credits also encompass...
Mar
2012 9
2012 9
A car park that became a karaoke stage for Footscray by Night
It’s not long after Footscray By Night that I catch Hoang Tran Nguyen and David Cuong Nguyen at fauxPho artspace, where Hoang rents a studio space in a 1st floor warehouse which he shares with other artists. The warehouse is minimal, grungy, and a little run-down, belying the rich history of the now disbanded fauxPho ...
Mar
2012 9
2012 9
Asian Australian Film Forum and Network (AAFF) co-Chairs Indigo ‘Indi’ Willing and Amadeo Marquez-Perez
Amadeo Marquez-Perez has over 15 years experience as a local and international film festival organizer, including with the Bayside Film Festival and 15/15 Film Festival, as well as a Digital Media Workshop Coordinator. He also has a passion for supporting and promoting the stories of a range of communities that are primarily not reflected within ...
Feb
2012 23
2012 23
Q&A – Sky Crompton
Quietly spoken and firmly focused on the value of having Asian faces on the screen, Sky Crompton, a director, producer and film scholar based in Melbourne, cuts an interesting figure. Of White Australian background, he is one of only a handful of filmmakers of non-Asian Australian background to create and cast films with all the ...
Feb
2012 22
2012 22
The Power to Think Big as an Asian Australian Filmmaker
Maria Tran is an actor, filmmaker and community arts trainer. She has a degree in Psychology and is passionate on screen culture amongst the culturally diverse communities in Australia. She made various short films such as Metro Screen grant, A Little Dream, award-winning Happy Dent, and action kung-fu comedy Maximum Choppage. In 2008, she...
Feb
2012 22
2012 22
Q&A – Jack Ngu
Jack Ngu is an actor, model, dancer, photographer and director. His film CHUNKING ALL STATIONS, a satire of Hong Kong art and action films that also features Maria Tran, screened at the AAFFN 2011 event and can be seen at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MYaIeIRHA . He also stars in BULLIES, directed by Somchay Phakonkham and Maria Tran. ...
Feb
2012 22
2012 22
Q&A – Alfred Nicdao
Filipino Australian actor, Alfred Nicdao, made his screen debut in 1979 as a Sumatran fisherman in The Sullivans. Though IMDb lists Alfred’s credits only since 1992 (in Embassy), his career spans a much longer period. His extensive screen biography includes seminal Australian television drama such as The Sullivans, Embassy, Neighbours, MDA,...
