Category: Films
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Brigadistas
Brigadistas is a film about the 1985 Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba by a group of Australians and New Zealanders. Brigades to Cuba were effectively an ‘exposure tour’ to various aspects of the Cuban situation, organised by an agency of the Cuban government in partnership with the organising committee from Australia. It is a film…
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Philippines, My Philippines
Philippines my Philippines (1989, Stoney Desert Productions) is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the ‘People Power’ revolution of 1986. Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia, it examines the social context…