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Jack Thompson at 80: A Sydney Film Festival Tribute, presented by David Stratton

JACK THOMPSON AT 80: A TRIBUTE

RAISING FUNDS FOR THE INDIGENOUS-OWNED AND RUN HEALTH SERVICE PURPLE HOUSE

31 AUGUST - 6 SEPTEMBER

Next week, we’re celebrating the work of iconic Australian actor Jack Thompson – just in time for his 80th birthday!

David Stratton has selected three classic Australian features to mark the actor’s milestone birthday and 50+ years in the industry. The three films – Breaker Morant , Sunday Too Far Away (recently restored and preserved digitally by National Film and Sound Archive), and The Sum of Us – will be presented online from Monday 31 August (Jack’s birthday) to Sunday 6 September.

There are afternoon and evening sessions to enjoy, plus special introductions by the filmmakers. Funds raised from the online screenings go to the Indigenous-owned and run health service Purple House, a charity close to Jack’s heart.

2020 is turning out to be a difficult year for everyone – filmmakers and film lovers included – so take this opportunity to celebrate some unmissable Australian cinema, alongside the work of the NFSA, as you support a much-valued Indigenous health service.

Presented by David Stratton, with the support of SFF & NFSA.

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EXPLORE THE PROGRAM

BREAKER MORANT

In the 1901 Boer War in South Africa, three Australian 'irregular’ soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary.

The accused are Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald). Morant, an English-born adventurer who has spent years in Australia, maintains he was following unwritten orders. Their inexperienced Australian lawyer (Jack Thompson) struggles to have his case heard.

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02 September
05 September (from 1pm)
05 September (from 6pm)

SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY

Jack Thompson stars as Foley, a gun shearer, in this exuberant comedy-drama set almost entirely on an isolated sheep station in South Australia.

Having virtually swept the board at the 1974-5 Australian Film Awards, Sunday Too Far Away achieved the added distinction of being selected to participate in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.

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31 August
04 September
06 September

THE SUM OF US

The Sum of Us gives us Jack Thompson as Harry, a likeable working-class bloke from Balmain, and Russell Crowe as his son, Jeff, a plumber who’s “cheerful” (Harry can’t stand the word “gay”).

Thompson gives what may be the best performance of his long film career as Harry, a man who’s desperate to see his son happy in a long-term relationship. There is great chemistry between these two actors on screen, a sense of enjoyment in the rich comedy of the script and in each other’s approach to it.

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03 September
05 September
06 September

WATCH DAVID STRATTON'S INTRODUCTION

“Jack is a consummate professional, a knockabout bloke with an ingrained decency and a swag of talent.”

Watch David Stratton’s introduction to the program and overview of Jack Thompson’s extraordinary career in Australia and overseas.

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ART IS THE WAY HOME

SUPPORT THE PURPLE HOUSE

It’s bad enough you’ve been told your kidneys are no good. Now you’re forced to leave family and country to go on dialysis in a strange city far away. You don’t know if you’re coming back. You’re worried about the old folks you care for and the kids and grandkids you’re bringing up. How will knowledge be passed down? Will family and culture stay strong?

This growing health and community crisis drove the Pintupi people from the Western Desert of Central Australia to find a solution. In 2000, their artists developed extraordinary collaborative paintings which were part of an auction at the Art Gallery of NSW. The million dollars raised started the Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, now called Purple House, and saw a new model of care based around family, country and compassion.

Run from Alice Springs by an all-Indigenous Board, Purple House's mission is ‘Making all our families well’. Currently, Purple House runs dialysis in 18 remote communities (NT, WA, SA), social support, aged-care and NDIS services, and a bush medicine social enterprise. Their iconic mobile dialysis unit, the Purple Truck, enables patients from communities without a permanent unit to get home for family and ceremony, and in 2018 it made a special Kakadu trip for Jack Thompson to make High Ground.

Central Australia has gone from the worst to best national survival rates for dialysis. More patients are getting home and culturally appropriate, community-led care is being acknowledged as the right way of working. But the demand grows and so too the need for support to reach more communities.

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24.08.2020 | Editor's blog

Cat. : PEOPLE