Book Launch

Martha Ansara's    The Shadowcatchers Australian Cinematography

6.30pm, Thursday,  June 28. Balmain Town Hall Meeting Room

About.... Martha Ansara was a resident of Balmain from 1969 to 2000, mother of actor Alice Ansara who was well known around the village as a performer in the amazing plays staged by Birchgrove Primary in 1989-1993. In 2003, Martha along with film critics Margaret Pomeranz and Julie Rigg staged the notorious attempt to screen the banned film Ken Park at the Balmain Town Hall. attended by many hundreds of Balmain residents who were served cake and tea while they listened to anti-censorship speeches from well-known cultural figures. The police intervened and the screenings resumed underground.

More broadly,

Martha Ansara was admitted as a full member of the Australian Cinematographer's Society (ACS) in 1980, one of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer.  She later became a documentary film director and producer, now operating as Ballad Films. She has an M.A. in Applied History (University of Technology, Sydney) and has written historical and critical articles for screen journals, newspapers and other publications. As a professional oral historian, she has contributed nearly 100 oral histories and interviews to the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and was the founding convenor of the Film & Broadcast Industries Oral History Group, closely associated with the NFSA. She has worked as a project assessor for the Australian Film Commission and other screen organizations, as a film valuer and as a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian Film Television & Radio School and elsewhere. She is a founding member of a number of cultural organizations.

The Shadowcatchers: a history of cinematography in Australia
Australian Cinematographers Society
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Other BI Events

July 26             Sydney’s Water (Environment, Engineering and CS Gas)

August 23        Australia and the Asian Century (Edu’n, Business, Health)

September       Women’s Issues: Now and Then

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