Performance4a

Performance 4a's Story Telling event for the Chinese Heritage Association of Australia on 8 Nov was a success.  Audience members were deeply moved and entertained by the 6 performers Joy Hopwood, Teik-Kim Pok, Brad Pham, Mary Tang, Mai Long and Daphne Lowe Kelley, whose stories were developed through workshopping with William Yang.  The response was so enthusiastic, Performance 4a is exploring avenues to repeat the event for a wider audience.  Watch this space!

Congratulations to writer/director/DOP Warwick Thornton and producer Kath Shelper whose extraordinary film, Samson & Delilah won Best Feature Film from a very impressive field at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards on November 26.  Following on the heels of the Camera D'or at Cannes earlier in the year, Samson & Delilah looks set to collect more gongs during the film awards season.  Congratulations also to Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombes who won Best Animated Feature for Mary and Max, adding to an already bulging trophy cabinet. 

Felino Dolloso, Jemwel Danao and Alice Koehavong all feature in the latest feature by prolific writer/director Martin Ponferrada, which has commenced production.  Tallulah Falls Apart is an ensemble piece with over 20 Australian and Filipino characters.  It follows the tumult of a strange, volatile and eclectic suburban party-planning committee. Amidst the inevitable sea of team-dysfunction, revelations emerge, friendships are mended and relationships deteriorate.

An Australian dance video directed by Deborah Kelly and performed by Teik-Kim Pok reached the finals of the Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest.  The Tank Man Tango was devised as a moving memorial staged on the 20^th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.  The winning video was [1875] Ravel and Bolero by Taiwan's Shu-Yi Chou.