‘Wandering Souls’
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
Director-producer Aviva Ziegler’s feature documentary Wandering Souls will screen on Sbs and at Australian and international film festivals following the world premiere last week at the Cambodia International Film Festival.
The film follows the mounting of a stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, which premiered in Melbourne in 2017. The work was created in memory of the two million Cambodians who died at the hands of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Wandering Souls also tells first-hand survival stories of those involved in the creation of the play and of the determination of Cambodians to reclaim an artistic heritage that disappeared during the four years of the reign of terror. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the regime’s overthrow.
Commissioned by the not-for-profit organization Cambodian Living Arts, the play was a first-time collaboration between Cambodian film director Rithy Panh and the country’s premier composer, Dr.
- 3/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
A four-part Sbs series leads a new round of Screen Australia funding for documentaries.
The announcement of funding is worth $1.8m across six one off documentaries and one series, and is expected to trigger $4.8m worth of production.
Following on from Sbs’s four part series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, which aired earlier this year and took 0.850m viewers across SBS1 in English, and Sbs 2 in Vietnamese will be Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl.
The series will examine the Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney and produced by Tim Toni and executive produced by Sue Clothier.
Liz Stevens, Screen Australia’s documentary manager said: “I’m thrilled to announce investment in the Sbs series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl. This important series will again strongly resonate with the local community.”
Also receiving funding are one-off documentaries about the lead singer of punk band The Sunnyboys, a...
The announcement of funding is worth $1.8m across six one off documentaries and one series, and is expected to trigger $4.8m worth of production.
Following on from Sbs’s four part series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta, which aired earlier this year and took 0.850m viewers across SBS1 in English, and Sbs 2 in Vietnamese will be Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl.
The series will examine the Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney and produced by Tim Toni and executive produced by Sue Clothier.
Liz Stevens, Screen Australia’s documentary manager said: “I’m thrilled to announce investment in the Sbs series Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl. This important series will again strongly resonate with the local community.”
Also receiving funding are one-off documentaries about the lead singer of punk band The Sunnyboys, a...
- 5/18/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Tony Wilson Acs was .one of Australia.s greatest observational cameramen. who .shot with both his ears and his eyes.. So say many filmmakers he worked with over his long career as a documentary cinematographer. .He made directors very lazy because he was so good,. long-time friend and collaborator Aviva Ziegler says. .Quite often when I was filming with him I.d want to ask him to do something and he would have already done it . he was always ahead of the game. .I.ve always said that he had eyes in the back of the head because he always knew what was going on. .He always anticipated what was going to happen and he.d always be there; you never felt that you.d missed something because...
- 3/15/2011
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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