Past Programs
Film - 2006
Norman Cohn
03/05/2006
What chance does an oral story-telling tradition have in a global landscape where a book is a benchmark of durability?
Ramona Koval speaks to a New York video artist who travelled to the Arctic Circle and spent 17 years helping to turn the tales and traditions of the Canadian Inuit into a beautiful visual landscape that could travel around the world and be read by everyone.
Norman Cohn teamed up with a small film production outfit, based in Nunavut, the self-governing Inuit province of north-east Canada, to develop a 13-part series of films that would capture the Inuit oral history of life and legend. This experience paved the way for their grand foray into the wider world with their award-winning film of 2002 Atanarjuat or 'The Fast Runner'.
At the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal, Ramona spoke to Norman Cohn ... an outsider who had the intelligence and sensitivity to ask the 'locals' how they wanted to tell their own stories ... and could he help?
Hilary McPhee on Truman Capote
26/03/2006
Hilary McPhee is a writer and publisher (including internet publishing) and former chair of the Australia Council. She will be a regular contributor on all kind things in public debate across the book world.
Her distinguished career includes co-founding and directing McPhee Gribble Publishers, an independent publishing company with a reputation for developing new authors. Her book Other People's Words was a memoir of a life in publishing. Today Hilary is discussing the film Capote, depicting the writing of Truman Capote's groundbreaking work In Cold Blood.
Hilary McPhee on Truman Capote
20/03/2006
Hilary McPhee is a writer and publisher (including internet publishing) and former chair of the Australia Council. She will be a regular contributor on all kind things in public debate across the book world.
Her distinguished career includes co-founding and directing McPhee Gribble Publishers, an independent publishing company with a reputation for developing new authors. Her book Other People's Words was a memoir of a life in publishing. Today Hilary is discussing the film Capote, depicting the writing of Truman Capote's groundbreaking work In Cold Blood.
