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“…expertly captures the fascinating and checkered life of one the world's most conscientious politicians…Georgie Girl and Georgina herself swept our Festival off its feet!”
“…humorous and poignant…offers an extraordinary look at a remarkable individual who has used her personal history to make a political difference.”
“[A] stand-out…Beyer’s dignity charm and frankness make Georgie Girl a fascinating film, even when she discusses the toughest times in her life…”
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Tampa Gay and Lesbian FF
- Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival
- Side by Side Int'l LGBT FF, Russia
- QueerDOC FF - Audience Award
- Peace Foundation - Media Peace Award
- Commonwealth FF
- Brisbane Int'l FF
- Festival Int'l de Filmes de Femmes, Creteil - Audience Award
- Athens Int'l FF
- Melbourne Int'l FF
- Hawaii Int'l FF
- Rocky Mountain Women’s FF
- Milwakee Gay and Lesbian FF
- Portland Gay and Lesbian FF
- Sydney Int'l FF - Audience Award for Best Documentary
- Austin Gay and Lesbian FF
- Reel Affirmations FF
- Seattle Gay and Lesbian FF
- Out on Screen Vancouver Gay and Lesbian FF
- Hot Springs Int'l Doc FF
- Int'l Festival of Lesbian and Gay Cinema Madrid (LESGAICINEMAD) - Best Documentary
- Pusan Int'l FF
- Sheffield Int'l Doc FF
- Hotdocs Canadian Int'l Doc FF
- Margaret Mead Int'l FF
- Los Angeles Int'l FF - IFP/West
- San Francisco Int'l Lesbian & Gay FF - Stu & Dave's Excellent Documentary Award
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Annie Goldson has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries, docudramas and experimental film/video for 20 years in the United States and New Zealand. She is known for producing films that are both politically engaged and formally innovative, such as Punitive Damage, released in cinemas in Australia, the US and New Zealand in 1999 and sold to major broadcasters such as HBO-Cinemax, ABC-Aust, ARD (Germany), WTN (Canada) and TVNZ). Another critically acclaimed documentary was GEORGIE GIRL, released in 2002 (sales to Channel 4 (UK), POV (PBS), CBC, SBS, Canalplus and TVNZ). Both titles have also garnered major awards in film festivals.
Annie has completed three award-winning films in the last three years, Sheilas: 28 Years On (2004), a history of second-wave feminism in New Zealand; Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa (2005) and Elgar’s Enigma: Biography of a Concerto (2006). She recently received major funding for her new documentary, Tabu Soro.
Goldson is also a writer and has published articles in books and journals such as The Listener (NZ), Landfall, Screen, Semiotext(e) , Social Text, and others. In 2006, her book Memory, Landscape, Dad and Me was released through Victoria University Publications along with a reissue of a DVD of Wake, her 1994 film. She is currently in progress on a book on human rights documentary, After the Fact: Documentary, Human Rights and International Law, which is now under contract with Temple University Press.
Annie has also been director of the biannual New Zealand International Documentary Conference held at the University of Auckland since 1996, and is a trustee on the board of DOCNZ, the New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival. Annie received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Auckland and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at that institution. (12/07)
New Zealander Peter Wells is most well-known in his homeland as a writer. He published his first novel, Boy Overboard, in 1997 and has since produced various award-winning works including his first collection of short stories, Dangerous Desires, which won the New Zealand and Reed awards for fiction. Aside from writing stories and essays, Wells is also a film and television director and screenwriter. Some of his film credits include the feature DESPERATE REMEDIES, which was an official selection of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, and the critically acclaimed shorts JEWEL’S DARL, MY FIRST SUIT, THE MIGHTY CIVIC, and LITTLE QUEEN. Fellow New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro used a novella of Wells’s as inspiration for the feature film MEMORY AND DESIRE. Wells first gained recognition in the film world for A DEATH IN THE FAMILY (1986). He is also responsible for RICORDI!, a dramatization of Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington stories, which was commissioned for the 1996 New Zealand Festival of the Arts. (10/09)
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