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25.01.2022 We are so incredibly excited for our first day of Humankind week! So many films, so many artists and yes... the most delicious treats from the Menu for Impact. We've got a few tips for early ordering early so you don't miss out: STREAT have pulled together a special movie night hamper with the ultimate movie night bratwurst hot dogs. Order by 12pm Tuesday for delivery by Thursday, and 12 pm Wednesday to receive it by Friday. ... PLUS - if you're looking for some amazing local wine, check out the diverse selection at Noisy Ritual Urban Winery! Order by 12pm Wednesday to have your drinks delivered and ready for this weekend's program! We cannot wait to share this week with you! And we hope to catch you tonight at our special Opening-Night event! Remember, Tonight’s tickets close at 2pm!! #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

22.01.2022 The Humankind Film Festival would not have been possible without the generous support of our partners. So, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to them. Humankind served as a virtual space of connection, and the maximum support we received from our Community, Hero, Supporting, Government and Major Sponsors helped us create this vision: through them we were able to engage and create a relationship with you, our community! Stay tuned over the coming days for some festival highlights, and to see what's up next for the HRAFF team. Until then, share with us what your highlights of the Humankind Film Festival were: tag us, email us, write to us! Any way, we would love to hear from you! #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

21.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets for tomorrow's Opening-Night event close at 2pm Monday 18th May! If you are unable to catch "Whale Rider", don’t fret! Once you become a ticket holder, you can catch it online, within 7 days after its screening! We are so delighted to share Pai’s journey as our Opening-Night film! On top of that, we are just thrilled to include a special pre-screen cultural performance by three Maori artists and mentors: Kodie Te Paa, Fallow Te Paa and Jeremy Nikora.... All three hail from the Tairawhiti region, where the story of Whale Rider is based. To unite this touching film, with Kodie, Fallow and Jeremy’s art is incredibly exciting. Simply put, this will be a wonderful occasion, and we at 'Humankind' are so happy to experience it with you! Buy your tickets now via humankindfilmfestival.com

21.01.2022 Looking for those yummy cinema treats to snack on during the film? Take a look through the HRAFF aisle brought to you by Sibling by Kinfolk - the wonderful sister cafe of Kinfolk Cafe, born to build inclusive communities and sustainable food systems. Whether you are a sweet tooth or prefer something salty, they have you covered - kits for the more traditional pop-corn lovers, delicious nearly-ready TV dinners and who can resist a choc top!? Make sure you get your orders i...n before 7am tomorrow for deliveries on Saturday! Find our full Menu for Impact via our website: www.humankindfilmfestival.com #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

21.01.2022 To our ‘In My Blood It Runs’ audience, collectively you helped raise over $6,000 for the film! We are overjoyed by this figure! Your contribution will help support an Arrernte-led school to be established on Dujuan’s homeland at Mpweringke Anapipe by his families, supported by Children's Ground! This in turn, will help support First Nations led education in Australia, will help make mainstream schools culturally safe for First Nations children and will help support restorat...ive approaches to juvenile justice instead of the current punitive systems that exist. As we cross the mid-way point of the festival, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the Humankind community. The solidarity, and excitement of people coming together in a common cause is what gives this online festival purpose and determination. #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community See more

21.01.2022 Did you watch IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS at our Fundraiser in February or during our online Humankind festival? Help support the film by providing feedback to the filmmaking team.

21.01.2022 Already providing pick-up and delivery from Thornbury, Abbotsford and Newtown (Sydney), this week Lentil as Anything have opened up their St Kilda restaurant specially for you to order a delicious movie night dinner - and we still have two nights left! Their restaurants are run as pay-what-you-can, a model which in itself highlights the kindness of individuals who, by paying a little extra for their meal, can contribute to the meal of another. Lentil's kitchens and volunteers are also busy cooking and delivering hundreds of free meals a week to people in need. Let's support them support others, simply by placing your order with them tonight and enjoying a great meal To check their menu, do click the link to our menu for impact page -> https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/menu

20.01.2022 Our amazing friends Charcoal Lane have crafted a mouthwatering takeaway menu filled with delicious native Australian ingredients just for Humankind! Their unique flavours are inextricably linked with memory and emotion, inspired by the land that produced them and prepared by young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspiring chefs. Kangaroo Sliders, Crocodile Nuggets and Emu Springrolls are just some of the delights on offer. Menu is available from 18th-24th of May for pickup and delivery. To order and find out more head to their website: https://www.charcoallane.com.au/menu

20.01.2022 We would like to thank everyone who has tuned in to watch the spectacular films and artist performances throughout this past week of Humankind Film Festival. Today we are celebrating the RESILIENCE of the human spirit and our communities. So for our closing night, we are thrilled to share our pre-film features with you all, including messages from our team and partners as well as a beautiful performance by Guest Artist Bigoa Chuol. Bigoa is a South Sudanese published author, ...poet, broadcaster and facilitator. An active practitioner in community engaged arts and creative project development. Her more recent writing explores the reverberations of war time displacement in the diaspora on gender equality, language and memory. She is currently working on a collection of essays. The poetry she will be sharing is distilling experiences of people with multiple encounters of being at and away from home. Moving away from silence, confronting and naming inherited histories as a route towards healing. Thank you all for your support during this journey! #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

18.01.2022 Have you ordered your movie night meals yet? ASRC Catering is now providing heat-at-home meals inspired by the community they serve. Their convenient vegetarian meals are wholesome and delicious and available for pick-up from today - Friday or for once-weekly delivery to some Melbourne suburbs (minimum orders apply). Your support keeps people seeking asylum in meaningful and stable employment and puts food on the table for others in need of support. For more information and to order check out their profile or visit https://meals.asrc.org.au

18.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets close at 7.15pm for tonight’s screening of ‘And then We Danced’! If you can’t join us at the screening start time, don’t worry, once you’re a ticket holder you have 48 hours from our kick off to view. EXPRESSION is the theme that closes the Humankind festival, paired with the exquisite film AND THEN WE DANCED. A gifted dancer named Merab moves beautifully, but his mannerisms enrage his coach, who finds them too effeminate. When Merab meets a handsome new ...dancer named Irakli, Iralki’s gifted technique becomes a source of attraction and competition for Merab. This film will be accompanied by a performance by Adolfo Aranjuez. It’s your final chance to support the incredible social enterprises that joined our Menu for Impact. Pair your film with a refreshing drink, or delicious meal from one of our Menu for Impact partners. Head to the website at https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/ to find out more.

17.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets for Saturday's screening of 'Backtrack Boys' (2018) close at 2pm Saturday 23rd May! If you are unable to catch it, don't worry! Once you become a ticket holder, you can catch it online, within 24 hours after its screening! Backtrack Boys (2018), is an inspiring and touching documentary that uncovers the unconventional youth program established by free-wheeling jackaroo Bernie Shakeshaft in Armidale, New South Wales. The boys in the program are on a per...ilous course towards jail until they hit the road with Shakeshaft’s legendary dog jumping team. This coming of age story reveals the challenges and triumphs these boys face as they try to find their place in the world, drawing on the incredible healing power of the connection between the boys and their dogs. Saturday night's screening includes a special pre-performance by Emily Wurramara, presented by Green Music Australia. Each Humankind event goes hand-in-hand with a delicious meal or bottle order from one our amazing food and drink partners! Find session-tickets, the program line-up, and our full Menu for Impact on our website, via our website: www.humankindfilmfestival.com #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

17.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets close at 7.15pm for tonight’s screening of ‘Midnight Oil: 1984’ If you can’t join us at the screening start time, don’t worry, once you’re a ticket holder you have 48 hours from our kick-off to view. Get your tickets here: https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/program... PURPOSE is the theme that accompanies tonight’s screening. Featuring never before seen footage, MIDNIGHT OIL: 1984 is the story of the year Australia’s most iconic rock band & its passionate front-man Peter Garrett inspired the nation’s youth to believe in the power of music to change the world. This film will be accompanied by a performance by Tariro Mavondo, the incredibly talented co-Artistic Director of Western Edge Youth Arts. We are delighted to be screening this inspiring film, with profits going to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). And don’t forget to make the most of your Humankind experience this weekend with some treats from the Menu for Impact! Check out the options and get your orders in here: https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/menu

16.01.2022 This is Waashil - Humankind Audience Development Coordinator. Between checking in on the social stats and trying different kinds of things throughout the stay at home period, Waashil has started to befriend his rice cooker to make sure that his rice is cooked perfectly every time. For his Menu for Impact favorite, Waashil has picked Lentil as Anything. A movement for social fairness and inclusion, Lentil as Anything is more than just a restaurant. For 20 years they have crea...ted an ecosystem based on valuing people over profit, where social classes, abilities, cultures and beliefs are all given an equal opportunity to gain skills and help their fellow humans. Check out their special Humankind menu, available for pick up and delivery. Head to the Humankind Menu for Impact site at https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/menu to check out the menu and order. See more

13.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets for Thursday's screening of 'Tomorrow' close at 2pm Thursday 21st May! If you are unable to catch it, don't worry! Once you become a ticket holder, you can catch it online, within 3 days after its screening! Big-nation environmental policies are too often inadequate. Tomorrow (2015) understands this. By webbing tales of small-town communities, teachers and activists, this enduring documentary centres on the people, and is a useful introduction to ma...ny compelling, and environmentally responsible ideas. A call for planetary compassion,Thursday's movie - presented by DocPlay - is essential viewing for anyone who is wanting to make our world safer, greener and stronger. This special-event includes pre-performance poetry by guest artist Matt Wicking, presented by Green Music Australia Each Humankind screening goes hand-in-hand with a delicious meal or bottle order from one our amazing food and drink partners! Find session-tickets, the program line-up, and our full Menu for Impact on our website, via our website: www.humankindfilmfestival.com #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

13.01.2022 This Refugee Week, we are delighted to be co-presenting FOR SAMA with the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA). All proceeds go to RCOA.

08.01.2022 Get the popcorn ready because We’re Back!! We’re thrilled to announce Humankind is returning this spring to reunite our communities and celebrate the incredible resilience and fortitude of the human spirit! Join us from the 2nd - 8th November to enjoy a program full of inspiring themes, outstanding artist performances and high-calibre films that explore the history and complexities of the human experience. As we reemerge from lockdown and restrictions and reconnect with our... loved ones, Humankind once again offers you the chance to get behind the artists, businesses and organisations who go above and beyond to support our community and create impact. Watch this space for more exciting announcements coming soon!! Tickets and program coming 12 October. Join the guestlist today! https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/

08.01.2022 Are you ready for Humankind's closing night? Food sorted? If not, you are still in time to place an order with Hamed and enjoy a beautiful and delicious Persian meal which in itself speaks to today's theme of resilience. SalamaTea House is a social enterprise born from the need and want to employ and empower refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants facing the same difficulties owner Hamed faced when he first came to AustraliaEach delicious dish tells a story of resilience and is a perfect accompaniment to tonight's beautiful film about Maya Angelou. Check out our website to find the full Menu for Impact: www.humankindfilmfestival.com

07.01.2022 The connection between identity and expression is powerful, and personal. Every day we find ways to express ourselves, and as we prepare to re-enter the world, how will we make ourselves understood? Those of you joining us for Humankind tonight will receive a selection of Conversation Cards that explore the meaning of Expression, to prompt a post-film discussion with loved ones, or a quiet moment of solo reflection.

07.01.2022 Maintaining healthy habits is vital in taking care of your physical and mental wellbeing, especially now To stay healthy, our friend VicHealth has provided us some tips that you could read by clicking this link: https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/be-healthy

06.01.2022 Meet Alice, Program Manager of Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. With the originally planned HRAFF on hold in 2020 Alice has kept herself busy by planning the films for Humankind Festival. If you've joined us this week - or for our first Humankind Festival in May - you'll know just how incredible our program is. The richness of Humankind is a true testiment to Alice's ability to understand exactly what our audience needs - and how to find world-class films to hearten, insp...ire, remind us how connected we are, and bring together our HRAFF community and beyond. Across the world, an incredibly diverse array of live arts events have been made available online, and it’s been a wonderful reminder of how in times of crisis, artists are often amongst the first to adapt and continue to bring us together. Tonight's closing film And Then We Dance is truly spectacular and will bring Humankind to a beautiful, heartwarming conclusion.

05.01.2022 A platform for people to tell their stories, Dumbo Feather magazine is our partner in delivering our opening night movie, "Whale Rider". Searching the globe for those who inspire and affect us as a global collective, join Dumbo Feather in creating a global community living with passion and purpose by subscribing to their magazine through www.dumbofeather.com/subscribe

05.01.2022 Hardie Grant Books is a proud sponsor of the Human Kind Film Festival. Our relationship is founded upon a range of mutual aspirations. Both organisations aim to make an impact through curating and promoting storytelling. HRAFF’s focus on film and the arts complements Hardie Grant’s written word focus, as well as matching our aspirations to continue to diversify our media. With an indigenous stream in the festival, HRAFF complements Hardie Grant’s Indigenous publishing program as well as a range of other activities we undertake in our efforts to support Reconciliation, Indigenous literacy, and Indigenous employment in the publishing and media industry

05.01.2022 Delve deeper this month with a series of FREE (!) online conversations presented by our pals The Capitol - RMIT University and Prototype video art and film streaming platform on the 11, 18 and 25 Aug. The series kicks off with the event below -- Prototype curator Lauren Carroll Harris and filmmaker Sari Braithwaite to discuss the fine line that divides cultural cross-pollination and cultural colonisation in art. Head to thecapitol.tv at 5pm on Tue 11 Aug for this first Q&A in the three-part series and sign up to their socials and newsletter for updates!

04.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets for Sunday's screening of "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" (2016) close at 2pm Sunday 24th May! If you are unable to catch it, don't worry! Once you become a ticket holder, you can catch it online, within 24 hours after its screening! "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" (2016) is a vast and bracing portrait of a African American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X to her in...augural poem for President Bill Clinton, this documetnary explores her remarkable life through her own words, and illustrates her incredible Resilience the whole way through. We feel so fortunate to present this powerful story as our closing-night film. The screening also includes special pre-film messages and poetry performance by guest artist Bigoa Chuol. Each Humankind screening goes hand-in-hand with a delicious meal or bottle order from one our amazing food and drink partners! Find session-tickets, the program line-up, and our full Menu for Impact on our website, via our website at humankindfilmfestival.com #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community

03.01.2022 I believe very strongly you’ve got to participate, in whatever way you can. - Peter Garrett. We are driven, challenged, shaped by purpose. Day to day, and across our life. Those of you joining us for Humankind tonight will receive a selection of Conversation Cards that explore the meaning of Purpose, to prompt a post-film discussion with loved ones, or a quiet moment of solo reflection.

03.01.2022 "Our Sunday's screening of "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" includes a special performance by Bigua Chuol. Bigoa is a South Sudanese published author, poet, broadcaster and facilitator. An active practitioner in community engaged arts and creative project development. Her more recent writing explores the reverberations of war time displacement in the diaspora on gender equality, language and memory. She is currently working on a collection of essays. The poetry she wi...ll be sharing is distilling experiences of people with multiple encounters of being at and away from home. Moving away from silence, confronting and naming inherited histories as a route towards healing Buy your tickets for our 24th of May screening, and tune in at 6:45pm sharp to experience Bigoa's beautiful pre-screen performance! To learn more, check out our artist program at https://www.humankindfilmfestival.com/artist-program #humankindff #humankindfilmfestival #community See more

01.01.2022 FINAL CALL: Tickets for Tuesday's screening of 'No Time for Quiet' close at 2pm Tuesday 19th May! If you are unable to catch it, don't worry! Once you become a ticket holder, you can catch it online, within 24 hours after its screening! Featuring appearances from rock sensation Courtney Barnett, local punk trio Cable Ties and slam poet Sukhjit Khalsa, Tuesday's movie follows a group of girls and gender-fluid youths as they discover the empowering strength of music th...rough the GIRLS ROCK! camp in Melbourne. It is a joy and privilege to watch these very different young people bond, find a sense of belonging and identity, and discover their voices over the course of the week-long school holiday program and beyond. Accompanied with a special pre-screen performance by the band ‘Closer to Nowhere’, Tuesday's screening promises to be first-rate!Only made better with a special-order from one of our amazing food and drink partners. Buy your tickets now via our website: www.humankindfilmfestival.com #humankindfilmfestival #community See more