Unknown Pleasures: MEET THE LOWENSTEINS, Tue, Mar 12

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"Unknown Pleasures: Australian independent cinema" is a series of regular screenings curated and presented by Chris Luscri & Bill Mousoulis, featuring the best of Australian independent cinema, both classic and contemporary, with discussions with most of the filmmakers, at Thornbury Picture House.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 6:25 pm
MEET THE LOWENSTEINS…
Guest programmed by Digby Houghton
Q&A with Richard Lowenstein, moderated by Digby Houghton

We present two of Richard Lowenstein’s half-hour short films, works connected to the life and work of his historian/author mother Wendy Lowenstein (1927-2006) — his debut film the docu-drama EVICTIONS (1979, 25 mins), about social conditions in the 1930s in Melbourne, and DON’T BE TOO POLITE GIRLS (2023, initial version, 25 mins), a biography of Wendy Lowenstein and historian/activist Shirley Andrews, for which Lowenstein is currently seeking funding to expand it to feature length via Documentary Australia https://documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/formidable-women/

Thornbury Picture House, 802 High St. Thornbury.
Bookings essential, through https://thornburypicturehouse.com.au/film/st00002422/

More info – http://www.pureshitauscinema.com/unknown_pleasures.html