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    • TIFF Review: Sweet As Offers a Contemporary Update to The Breakfast Club

    It didn’t take long after watching Jub Clerc’s Sweet As to see the comparison point my mind went to first (The Breakfast Club) was hardly an original thought. It’s an archetypal coming-of-age story for a reason. You see a mixed-bag group of troubled teens forced to confront their hardships during a mandated supervised excursion and allusions to John Hughes’ classic aren’t far behind. Whereas he could get away with making that group consist of white suburban kids with differing degrees of entitlement and affluence, however, today’s landscape needs a bit more complexity beyond chip-on-your-shoulder bullying. By setting their film in the Australian Outback, Clerc and co-writer Steve Rodgerstalk about race, poverty, and exploitation atop that superficial baseline. Because these kids aren’t confronting privilege. They’re struggling to survive.

    There’s a reason Murra(Shantae Barnes-Cowan) comes home and pushes her cabinet in front of her room’s door.

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    Successful projects announced for Screenwest and Screen Australia’s Out Now initiative

    Three Western Australian Lgbtqia+ web series will begin production next year after each receiving $100,000 funding via Screenwestand Screen Australia’s Out Now initiative.

    Out of Here, The Curse of Baba Yaga and Yokai were selected from the six projects shortlisted for development earlier this year.

    Produced by Sophia Armstrong, Out of Here will be written by Tina Fieldingand directed by Jacqueline Pelczar, the pair behind CinefestOZ-selected short film, Sparkles.

    Producer Brooke Batka and writer/director Christopher Colleywill produce The Curse of Baba Yaga, which follows a gay high school student from a family with a magical twist.

    Ramu Productionsproducer Jodie Bell, writer/producer Brooke Collardand director Ngaire Pigramwill explore the life of a Noongar teen who finds herself through her connection to
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    • Ngaire Pigram

    Australian actress

    Ngaire Pigram

    Born1978 or 1979 (age 45–46)
    OccupationActress
    Years active2005 – present
    Notable workMystery Road (s2)
    Sweet As
    Children2

    Ngaire Pigram (born 1978 or 1979) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director from Western Australia. She has worked on stage and in film and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Leonie in season two of Mystery Road, and as Grace in the 2022 feature film Sweet As.

    Early life and education

    Ngaire Pirgram was born in Broome, Western Australia in 1978 or 1979, the daughter of Stephen Pigram. She is a Yawuru woman.

    After attaining a Certificate IV in Aboriginal Theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Broome, Pigram was accepted into the three-year diploma course at WAAPA, and in 2004 moved to Perth to pursue further studies in acting.

    Career

    Pigram is a singer, dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director.

    Film and television

    Pigram played Debbie in the short film Broken Bonds, directed by Ashley Sillifant in the first of the ABC's Deadly Yarns anthology series. One of her earliest film roles was playing the lead in Beck Cole's Plains Empty, which screened at Sundance Film Festival in 2005, and she performed as a dancer in Jimmy Chi's film 2009 Bran Nue Dae, a film version of the stage musical. In 2011 Pigram played Nella, single mother of 15-year-old Bullet, in Brendan Fletcher's drama film Mad Bastards,

    In 2013 she was given the opportunity by Screenwest to write and direct a short film, Dark Whispers, which was produced by Kelrick Martin. Her sister Naomi played the lead role, and won a WOW! Award for her performance.

    In 2020 she playe

    To mark the end of this year’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival, here’s a selection of my top films from the Get Your Shorts On! screening, which featured six WA-made short films that were each funded by ScreenWest & FTI.

    By Courtney Loney

    Eighteen years ago, in the basement of Perth jazz venue the Greenwich Club, what is now known today as one of Australia’s most vibrant and eclectic independent film festivals began. This year’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival certainly did not disappoint with screenings held at venues from Leederville through to Fremantle showcasing a wide array of feature films, documentaries and short productions from every country imaginable.

    We were lucky enough to check out some of the outstanding films on offer (Quick Picks – Revelation Perth International Film Festival: Feature Films, Quick Picks – Revelation Perth International Film Festival: Documentaries) and last week I was given the opportunity to view some of the greatest short films to be produced in WA in recent years at the regular festival screening category Get Your Shorts On!

    Sadly, we will all have to wait until next year to be able to once again have the chance to see so many unique, independent films made both abroad and in our own backyard, but in the meantime, here’s my top 3 short films from the Get Your Shorts On! collection.

    3. Setting Them Straight
    Director:     Kaleb McKenna
    Starring: Brett Dowson, Greg McNeil & Sarah McNeil

    In a society that is finally paving the way for legal same sex unions, Setting Them Straight offers an unorthodox angle on sexuality.

    As the title suggests Setting Them Straight  follows Josh (Dowson), a young man who reveals to his parents that he is actually straight after living the majority of his life as gay, or as he says “on the spectrum”. While most filmmakers choose to tiptoe around serious subjects, co-writers Kale

    ILBIJERRI Theatre Company's Post

    Ngaire Pigram is a proud Yawuru and Wajarri woman from Broome, Western Australia. A performing artist, writer, director and one time researcher, Ngaire enjoys being creative in all aspects of her life and feels honoured and blessed to have been selected as a dramaturg for the 2020 BlackWrights Creators Program.
    Ngaire will be supporting one of our writers, Phoebe Grainer, to create their radio play throughout the BlackWrights Program as a dramaturg. She, along with the Creators Program will be attending their fifth, of 6 Master Lab sessions with Louise Gough on Tuesday night. Louise has been teaching the fundamentals of storytelling along with ensuring the dramaturgs in the BlackWrights program have tools to be able to support the writers over the 12-month program.
    We’re looking forward to seeing Ngaire’s growth as she helps Phoebe’s ideas flourish into a deadly radio play!
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