VENUE: Trinity Uniting Church, 47 Marlborough Rd. Wellington Point. Redland City.
DATE: Sunday June 27
TIME: 2.30 - 4.30 pm
Coffee Van will be on site after the screening.
An inspiring and thought-provoking documentary.
Music can heal and transform on a personal and community level. But can it build a bridge between middle Australia and some of the world's most vulnerable people?
Through the eyes and hearts of two Iranian musicians, Scattered People is a story about the healing power of music, bringing together people, cultures and countries while exploring Australians' attitudes towards people seeking asylum. Scattered People is about the power of music to create change and restore hope.
It is a story of restitution and hope, of shared humanity and the role music can play in forging bonds of friendship and respect and giving voice to otherwise unsung heroes.
It features interviews with music icons including Missy Higgins, John Butler, Archie Roach, Michael Franti, Katie Noonan, Dan Sultan, Baker Boy, Harry James Angus and more.
The Scattered People are a band of kindred spirit musicians in Brisbane, Australia who play, write and record the music and stories of asylum seekers they encounter in detention and community centres, producing high quality albums. We follow their relationships, rehearsals and public performances and hear their heartfelt stories of courage and character as they create Sugarmill Road, their last album.
The SCATTERED PEOPLE film is an inspiring and thought-provoking documentary about our music and our humanity which paint a picture of life as a musician seeking asylum in an unwelcoming country.
Being Reel Films was founded with a vision to produce real life stories of humanity to counterbalance an increasingly commercialised and impersonalised world. Being Reel Films is humanitarian, progressive, enabling and empowering, and is driven by universal values of peace, freedom, social progress, equal rights and human dignity, as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights half a century ago. The purpose of Being Reel Films is to create films, documentaries and social impact projects with stakeholders that disrupts and creates positive change with
real-world outcomes.
