Updating the revolution....

CLOSING NIGHT

Sunday 15 July, Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre

The fun starts as early as 8pm - with an afterparty at Bond Bar to follow

Screening Down and Out with the Dolls, directed by Kurt Voss, from Whyte House Productions. Plus Awards Presentation to follow. See the Best and Most Gratuitous of the festival's NEW section, dutifully lauded and applauded as judged by our tres-underground-chic celebrity jury, including: Mark Bakaitis (HEAD, director of last year's Best Film winner Narcosys), Mark Savage (director of the recently released Aussie actioner Sensitive New Age Killer), Fiona Parker (Beat magazine), Gawain McLauchlan (Filmnet), Patrick Hughes (local VCA enfant terrible), Dr Patricia McCormack (academic in women's studies) and John Fox (motion picture armourer - to keep everyone in line!).

TICKETS: $20 FULL / $15 CONCESSION
Available at Ticket Outlets and 30 mins prior to session.

 
Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre
a: Lower Plaza, 1 Macarthur Street, EAST MELBOURNE
p: 9651 1515

Bond Bar
a: 24 Bond Street, MELBOURNE
p: 9629 9844 Mel: 1A,F10

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TONY PITMAN'S PRESS RELEASE FRIDAY JULY 13

NUDE CENSORSHIP PROTEST DURING ASTON BY-ELECTION VOTE
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Last Wednesday evening (11 July), the Melbourne Underground Film Festival was intending to screen the 1975 Italian Film Salo or the 120 days of Sodom, a film banned in Australia. Unfortunately the owners of the Kaleide Theatre at RMIT, fearing prosecution, decided not to allow the screening to go ahead. About 60 people who had arrived for the 9pm screening were thereby deprived of the chance to see the world famous film. Salo is a highly acclaimed film that screens legally all around the world. It used to screen legally in Australia until it was banned in 1998. Now, anyone who screens Salo here risks going to jail.

“When it comes to censorship, Australia is becoming the laughing stock of the world,” stated Tony Pitman, spokesperson for Melbourne-based human rights group Freedom International. “These people were prevented from watching a film they wanted to see, not because they would have been offended by it, but because some other people, such as Brian Harradine and Julian McGauran, who were not even there, would have been offended by it. Banning material on the grounds that some viewers may be offended is completely nonsensical because no one is ever forced to watch a film they don’t want to.”

To protest against this continuing violation of the rights of Australian adults to see, hear and read what they want, Tony Pitman will protest nude at 12.50pm outside the Heany Park Primary School polling station in Rowville to coincide with the scheduled voting by Liberal Party candidate, Chris Pierce. “The point of being nude” said Tony “is to draw attention to another form of censorship; that which outlaws the human body being seen naked in public. In both situations, the state tries to restrict a completely harmless activity, by imposing its view of morality on people. And quite simply, we won’t stand for that.” Tony will risk being sent to jail for two years for his public nakedness, under section 7(1)(c) of the Victorian Vagrancy Act.

PROTEST:

WHERE: POLLING STATION, HEANY PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL, BUCKINGHAM DRIVE, ROWVILLE, MELBOURNE

WHEN: SATURDAY 14 JULY 2001 AT 12.50PM

For all enquiries please call the Freedom International media department on (03) 9489 4239 or 0402 719900 or visit http://www.geocities.com/freedominternationalhome

viva la causa