Lady Lash + My Survival as an Aboriginal | Double feature film screening
Schedule
Sun May 29 2022 at 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm
Location
ACMI | Melbourne, VI
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Join us for a double feature of LADY LASH and MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL, featuring an in-conversation with Lady Lash star, Crystal Clyne Mastosavvas and producer Rochelle 'Rocky' Humphrey, moderated by NITV/SBS broadcaster, Kerri-Lee Harding.LADY LASH(2020, dir. Rochelle Humphrey)
Meet Lady Lash, a Kokatha and Greek MC, who returns to her ancestral lands for women’s business. The documentary's star, Crystal Clyne Mastosavvas, will appear in-conversation after the screening.
Lady Lash is the alter ego of Crystal Clyne Mastosavvas, a Kokatha woman with Greek ancestry who has carved out a successful career in the male-dominated Melbourne hip hop scene. Lady Lash follows Crystal as she returns to Country seeking self growth and connection after living in Melbourne for decades.
MY SURVIVAL AS AN ABORIGINAL (1979, dir. Essie Coffey)
The first documentary directed by an Aboriginal woman, Essie Coffey’s work endures as an invaluable piece of Australian and film history.
Its impact, not just locally within Australia and the Indigenous communities it portrayed, but internationally as it reached a global audience through the film festival circuit, was invaluable. An activist, advocate and storyteller, Coffey’s family become the entry point for the personal and painful story of her people as she dissects the impact of Colonisation on the oldest living civilisation on the planet. Unflinching in its depiction of life for Indigenous Australians in the 1970s, it’s also imbued with her signature humour as she examines what was, what is, and what could be in a voice that is uniquely and distinctly her own.
Presented with the National Film and Sound Archive’s digital restoration program – NFSA Restores – reviving our cinema icons.
Book now: https://acmi.me/ladylashmysurvivaldouble
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ACMI acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where this screening takes place, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all nations of this land.
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