The makers of Australian documentary The Animal Condition went from jumping fences to opening previously closed doors
The Animal Condition kicks off in full-blown leftist activist mode: a group of four then 20-something friends – Michael Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane McAllan and Augusta Miller – stumble across videos online of abattoirs and are incensed by what they see.
The four Nida graduates thus resolve to make an undercover documentary exposing the wicked ways of the Australian meat trade. They secure a small amount of funding from an animal welfare organisation and hook up with hardcore activists who, in a cloak-and-dagger-like way, sneak them on to paddocks and into battery hen factories under the cover of darkness.
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The Animal Condition kicks off in full-blown leftist activist mode: a group of four then 20-something friends – Michael Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane McAllan and Augusta Miller – stumble across videos online of abattoirs and are incensed by what they see.
The four Nida graduates thus resolve to make an undercover documentary exposing the wicked ways of the Australian meat trade. They secure a small amount of funding from an animal welfare organisation and hook up with hardcore activists who, in a cloak-and-dagger-like way, sneak them on to paddocks and into battery hen factories under the cover of darkness.
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- 8/24/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
The Animal Condition.
Animal welfare documentary The Animal Condition is set for a national release beginning this month via cinema-on-demand platform Fan-Force..
The film, directed by Michael Dahlstrom and produced and written by Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane Mcallan and Augusta Miller, is a collaboration between four Nida graduates who met in 2007-08 during their studies..
Shortly after graduating they picked up a camera and spent three years filming their experiences as they travelled the country canvassing the views of industry heavyweights (Australian Pork Limited and Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), federal politicians (the then Minister for Agriculture Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig and the Hon. Bob Katter MP) and animal welfare advocates (Lyn White and Peter Singer).
.This isn.t just another animal welfare film," said Dahlstrom, "it.s a documentary about human and animal suffering; the dying farmer unable to keep his operating costs low enough to break even,...
Animal welfare documentary The Animal Condition is set for a national release beginning this month via cinema-on-demand platform Fan-Force..
The film, directed by Michael Dahlstrom and produced and written by Dahlstrom, Ande Cunningham, Sarah-Jane Mcallan and Augusta Miller, is a collaboration between four Nida graduates who met in 2007-08 during their studies..
Shortly after graduating they picked up a camera and spent three years filming their experiences as they travelled the country canvassing the views of industry heavyweights (Australian Pork Limited and Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry), federal politicians (the then Minister for Agriculture Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig and the Hon. Bob Katter MP) and animal welfare advocates (Lyn White and Peter Singer).
.This isn.t just another animal welfare film," said Dahlstrom, "it.s a documentary about human and animal suffering; the dying farmer unable to keep his operating costs low enough to break even,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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