Jordan Osmond from Happen Films lived and laboured with us for six months while he worked on The New Peasants.
Film tour and Q&A sessions
We are joining Jordan from Happen Films (and Catie Payne from Reskillience podcast) on a road trip in August to help present, The New Peasants. After the film is screened at each of the following locations, we will join Jordan for a Q&A session. Come say g’day!
Sunday 27 July, (world premiere) Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Cinema Nova, Carlton, Victoria (bookings)
Friday 1 August, Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, Victoria (bookings)
Saturday 2 August, Palace Regent Cinemas, Ballarat Victoria (bookings)
Friday 8 August, The Pivotonian Cinema, Geelong, Victoria (bookings)
Thursday 14 August, Soldiers Memorial Hall, Stanley, Victoria (bookings)
Saturday 16 August, Far South Film Festival, Merimbula, NSW (bookings)
Thursday 21 August, Palace Electric Cinemas, Canberra, ACT (bookings)
Jordan and Catie will continue touring the film up the east coast with screenings in Sydney, Narara, Dungog, Bellingen, Lismore, and Brisbane. Head here for the event details of these screenings, to watch the trailer and also to organise a screening for your community.
Artist as Family would welcome being billeted in Stanley, Merimbula and Canberra, or anywhere between these locations. Please get in touch if you have a spare room or a patch of earth for us to pitch our tent in or near these locations.
Here are some reviews from those who have previewed the film.
A resplendent open window into the lived experiences of conscious simplification, connection to land and an intentional community compass.
– Uncle Charles Davison, Jen Ridley and family, Indigenous knowledge keepers
With this documentary Happen Films are revealed as masters of their craft honed over the years through an ethos of DIY minimalism to create a powerful and loving portrait of life lived to the full in the relationship to place, kin and community.
– David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator
The New Peasants offers an engaging and inspiring insight into one family’s local response to the predicament of our times.
– Helena Norberg-Hodge, writer and filmmaker
Beautiful portrayal of lives lived with purpose, beauty and courage in all its rawness, pain and worthiness.
– Su Dennett, permaculture teacher and elder
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Online Q&A with Artist as Family
Before we go on the road in mid August, we are looking forward to meeting you online for our inaugural, Come ask us anything events. Please send us a message if you’d like to join either or both of these two sessions, and we’ll send you a link. Both dates are filling up with a goodly assortment of folk from all over.
Saturday 9 August 7pm – 8.30pm (AEST; online)
Sunday 10 August 9am – 10.30am (AEST; online)
Any plans to come to SA? Adelaide? Thanks.
Hopefully Bronwen, Happen Films are looking to partner with people to present the film in their neck of the woods. You can register your interest on this page of theirs (scroll down a bit to find ‘Hold your own screening’).
(I had some troubles to post this comment in your Q&A post, so I try in this one)
Hello Patrick Meg and Woody, I would love to meet you finally virtually in these dates, but I’m going to be on a trip, and it’s completely impossible for me to be present online screen. I’m very disappointed to miss this opportunity… So, I would like to ask you if you have schedule to do another LIVE Q&A, in a coming future?
Thanks Tiago, your comment did come through on our ‘Come ask us anything’ post. We answered with:
“Yes Tiago. Once The New Peasants becomes available around the world, we’ll do more virtual Q&As. We look forward to meeting you then.”
Hopefully you’ll receive our replies.