Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

What about the slaves …?

I didn’t know much about slavery and the American Civil War and, having just seen two movies, Lincoln and Django Unchained, I don’t know very much more. These two films are so very different and yet they are linked because of their backdrop to slavery and the tensions that eventually led to civil war. I [...]

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Maleny Film Society August screenings

August screenings Saturday August 4 Evening – 7.15pm The Way Canada/France Adventure/drama PG – 121mins Martin Sheen plays Tom, an irascible American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son. His son was killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de [...]

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Reviews HINTERLAND TIMES: Maleny Film Society celebrates Aboriginal and Islanders Week

THE MALENY FILM SOCIETY is screening two fascinating and important documentaries in a special free matinee to celebrate NAIDOC week on Saturday 7 July. Jandamarra’s War is the story of an Australian Aboriginal man who should be as famous as Ned Kelly. In 1894, Jandamarra led a rebellion against invading pastoralists in defence of his [...]

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Maleny Film Society June screenings …

Saturday June 9 - 7.15pm Albert Nobbs Ireland Period drama M – 108 mins Social drama set in Ireland in the late 19th century, with Glenn Close in the challenging role of a woman posing as a man in order to survive in a male-dominated society. When ’Albert’, the enigmatic butler of luxurious Morrison’s Hotel, [...]

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Joe’s amazing story of life in a Leprosy colony

In 1945, seven year-old Joe Eggmolesse was diagnosed with Leprosy. He was taken from his family in Nambour and under police escort was transported by rail and sea over a thousand kilometres to Fantome Island where he was incarcerated for the next ten years. The isolated tropical island off the North Queensland coast, adjacent to [...]

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Return of the Picture Show Man

Centenary year for the Eumundi School of Arts FOR ALMOST half a century the Eumundi School of Arts hall was used as a venue by the travelling picture show men and later as a permanent cinema. Later this year the hall will celebrate its 100th birthday and to celebrate this aspect of the building’s history, [...]

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French film festival in Nambour

Each year the Alliance Française de la Sunshine Coast (AFSC) hosts the Touring French Film Festival (TFFF) – a cultural event for the local community that would normally only be enjoyed by a capital city audience. It also provides the Alliance with an opportunity to raise funds to further the aims of the association, which [...]

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Maleny Festival of Australian Film

Australian film buffs are in for a treat at the Maleny Film Society’s 21st Festival of Australian films. By chance, two of the films chosen for the Festival are high on the list for national recognition in upcoming awards ceremonies in 2012. Eye of the Storm and The Hunter have been nominated in multiple categories, [...]

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“Walk Talking Country”

International drama and documentary filmmaker, Robyn Hofmeyr has combined with Sunshine Coast hinterland Gubi Gubi elder, Bev Hand to produce an intriguing look beneath the surface of Bev’s ancestral land. Robyn, who directed the confronting Women and War documentary, has employed her directorial skills on this portrait of a hinterland unknown to most white residents. [...]

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Maleny Festival of Australian Film

Actor, Director, Scriptwriter … Judy Morris … is Outspoken with writer, Steven Lang WE ALL KNOW writers have a hard time of it. Their business is words and let’s face it, they’re not shy of using them to let us know how difficult it is being them. But what about scriptwriters? Not only do they [...]

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