The film will screen at capital city cinemas including the Chauvel (Sydney), or you can access copies via the web address: Time To Go John Aussie filmmakers create their version of Michael Moore's polemic film on American right wing politics, Fahrenheit 9/11. Titled TIME TO GO JOHN, the film will premiere nationally on September 29 in venues ranging from art house cinemas to pubs, clubs and libraries.
With absolutely no budget and in less than seven weeks a group of experienced and award-winning Australian filmmakers have pooled together to create a feature length film about the effect of, [the war criminal], Howard's government on Australia.
Faced with the dilemma of how to get the film seen by as many people as possible the filmmakers undertook to self-distribute the film and were overwhelmed by the positive response received nationwide. Cinemas in each capital city agreed to screen the film and many community groups and individuals pledged to run a "house party" in order to show the film in their area prior to the election.
According to the TIME TO GO JOHN national screening coordinator, Carmela Baranowska, the concept of house parties as a screening outlet is a relatively new one and the success of the technique demonstrates it is a legitimate way to get films out to a wide audience. House parties for the film have already been booked from Townsville in Queensland to St. Helens in Tasmania, from Corangamite in Victoria to Guildford in Western Australia, as well as internationally in Baghdad and Dili.
TIME TO GO JOHN is a compilation of fifteen short films documenting pivotal moments throughout Australia's recent local and international history, from the Iraq war to detention centres, the GST, anti-terrorism laws, [draconian laws for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], and reconciliation.
Made by some of Australia's best filmmakers and presented by comedian Rod Quantock, the film promises to pack all the punches and encourage voters to think carefully about their choice at polling time.
Melbourne filmmaker John Hughes (director of AFTER MABO, RIVER OF DREAMS and WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN), contributed a film about the time when John Howard famously 'lost it' during his speech formally opening the Reconciliation Conference in Melbourne in May 1997, and audiences turned their backs as he spoke.
Mixed in with the more serious documentary analysis of issues are some hilarious short clips such as a music video from 27-year-old Darwin rap artist Kris Keogh who wrote a song to express his dislike of Howard's pro-Bush agenda.
The film will screen at capital city cinemas including the Lumiere (Melbourne), Chauvel (Sydney), Schonnel (Brisbane), Mercury (Adelaide), Deckckair (Darwin), FTI (Perth), State Cinema (Hobart). Full screening list available at Time To Go John.
NATIONAL PREMIERE - September 29 All media inquiries please contact Keren Flavell keren@springtimeproductions.com.au or phone 0402 831 228 MORE INFORMATION Time To Go John. FULL DETAILS AND CLIPS AVAILABLE ONLINE.
A MOMENT OF SHAME | Fabio Cavadini &; Amanda King: The huge anti-war demonstrations around Australia did not move John Howard's resolve to send Australia to war. Participants express their feelings about his decision including cartoonist, Bill Leak, and Dave Burgess, of the No War on the Opera House fame.
BURQA I Anna Broinowski: On the eve of the bombing of Iraq a woman in a burqa travels to the Sydney Opera House with a mysterious package...
MEMO: I Catherine Gough-Brady: John Howard signed a memo asking for the 'interventionist strategy' to be implemented. This strategy included manufacturing an economically costly dispute and the removal of the Maritime Union from the waterfront. It backfired badly, the documents leaked out.
BLACK BULLION I Jen Hughes: The Howard Government's withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea has forced East Timor to back down on their right to negotiate their Maritime Boundaries on an equal footing and access their resources for survival beyond the paternalism of Australia and other colonial powers. A film about the tension between personal friendship and the betrayal of trust for black bullion.
HOWARD'S HISTORY I John Hughes: "Questions here at stake are bigger than the small hearts that have concocted the ten point scam" Noel Pearson, Reconciliation Convention, May 2004. Noel Pearson's compelling deconstruction of John Howard's narrow view of Australian history is startlingly clear in speeches during the Reconciliation Convention in Melbourne in 1997.
WHAT JOHN HOWARD KNEW - EAST TIMOR 1999 I Carmela Baranowska: "What John Howard knew-East Timor 1999" Examines the Howard government's knowledge of what was happening on the ground in East Timor and...what was actually happening on the ground in East Timor.
TRUST HOWARD? I HT Lee: John Howard wants voters to trust him. But many conservative voters, including Julian Burnside QC, currently don't feel comfortable with him.
EYE SAW I Nicholas Hansen: Eye Saw tells the story of two urban pranksters and the ways they challenge the community by stencilling political messages on advertising billboards and the streets.
THE WRITINGS ON THE WALL I Kelly Chapman: John Howard's policies have fuelled a textual protest in inner city Brisbane.
BOMBER I Haavard Berstad: From Gatas Parliament, Norway's pioneers of rap, comes Bomberfly - Bomber in English - a scathing, irreverent, anarchic and incredibly catchy animated burst of outrage condemning the "coalition of the willing" for invading and occupying Iraq. In Norwegian with English karaoke subtitles.
By Mandy King posted 26 September 04
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