Once My Mother | Film
Once My Mother
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24.01.2022 From ONCE MY MOTHER, here's Behind The Scenes, another DVD extra, revealing some of the background stories and locations in western Ukraine, formerly Eastern Poland. Told by director Sophia Turkiewicz and producer Rod Freedman. At www.oncemymother.com.au, you can view the whole multi-award winning film or buy the DVD. https://vimeo.com/360445574
23.01.2022 Our film continues to reach audiences around the world since it’s Australian national release 5 years ago.
22.01.2022 A fascinating study, MATERNAL MEMORY NARRATIVES AND THE MOVING DOCUMENTARY IMAGE, has been written by Kerren Ely-Harper and published in MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE. Once My Mother is included as a case study. You can read the paper via the link below and see the film at www.oncemymother.com.au https://staging.maifeminism.com/maternal-memory-narratives/
18.01.2022 Our next OzDox - The Australian Documentary Forum event is Wed 13 Feb at AFTRS. Excellent panellists and film clips. ALL welcome.
18.01.2022 For Sydneysiders, don't miss this OzDox Australian Documentary Forum event.
14.01.2022 This Wednesday at AFTRS Sydney, join OzDox for A Salute to pat Fiske, one of our most distinguished and loved filmmakers - sound recordist, director, producer. A night of fascinating film clips and stories, spanning decades of work and social activism. Come and celebrate!
11.01.2022 Celebrating five years since Once My Mother was screened in every capital city on Australia, winning 4 awards here and 10 international awards. Stream the film or buy the dvd here: http://oncemymother.com.au/buy-the-dvd/
11.01.2022 BEGINNINGS OF THE FILM is another DVD Extra about Once My Mother. Director Sophia Turkiewicz and producer Rod Freedman recall how the film got started and progressed to a multi award winning film that won 10 international and 6 Australian awards, screening in over 40 festivals. View the full film or order the DVD at www.oncemymother.com.au FILM SYNOPSIS... When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHKB_eoE8Q
10.01.2022 Excellent OzDox Australian Documentary Forum event coming up this Wednesday evening.
10.01.2022 Once My Mother has a 3 rd repeat screening at 1am Thursday 27 Dec on ABCTV. Anyone awake? Or record it for later! http://oncemymother.com.au/buy-the-dvd
06.01.2022 'The Forgotten History' is a 6min DVD Extra to the full award winning film 'Once My Mother', available at www.oncemymother.com.au In this DVD EXTRA to 'Once My Mother', Director Sophia Turkiewicz reflects on how she became aware of the hidden history of Poland, Russia and the Allies during World War II. This is a story little know in the West and uncovered during Sophia's investigation into her mother's extraordinary wartime journeys from Poland to Russia, Iran, Africa and f...inally, Australia. SYNOPSIS - Once My Mother When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late? Produced in association with the Kresy Siberia Foundation www.kresy-siberia.org
03.01.2022 The National Film and Sound Archive is our collective memory bank and has been successively slashed by previous and current governments. We accessed precious archival footage for Once My Mother from the NFSA as well as Polish and Russian archives. Let's hope our government starts adding to their budget, not reducing it. https://www.canberratimes.com.au//budget-boost-needed-to/
