Finally, we have a broader choice in the NSW Film Industry for film production space. Callan 201 is fully operational and at present inhabited with Blackfella Films and their successful, Logie award winning TV series, Redfern Now, now in its second series
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New film 'This is Roller Derby'
[Thu 13/09/2012 04:56:51]
media release from liz@titanview.com
When filmmaker Daniel Hayward set out to make a documentary in 2008 about roller derby, he had little idea he was on the verge of a cultural phenomenon.
Roller Derby was revived in Austin Texas in 2001. An amateur only sport, it focused on athleticism, community, sisterhood and, most of all, attitude. Currently there are over 1,240 amateur all-female, co-ed, or male leagues skating flat-track and banked-track Roller Derby in approximately forty countries around the world.
Since the Adelaide Roller Derby’s formation in 2007, over 68 leagues have formed nationwide, making roller derby the fastest growing women’s sport in Australia.
In the first Australian documentary on derby to be released in cinemas, This is Roller Derby charts the explosion of roller derby in Australia. Through the film the audience is privy to a rare glimpse of an emerging sport through the pioneering leagues of Adelaide, Canberra, Geelong and Ballarat Roller Derby’s. The film also visits the founding American leagues such as TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls and the Texas Rollergirls.
“I am a big sports fan,” says filmmaker Daniel Hayward. He stumbled across derby ‘bouts’ in his hometown of Reservoir in suburban Melbourne. He describes attending the first bout as “stepping onto another planet… It blew my mind that all these cool, inner city women were travelling all the way out to Reservoir to play Roller Derby.”
Pretty soon Daniel was hooked on the sport and attending regular ‘bouts’ as a fan. But he quickly noticed the sport was changing as it grew. “I could tell I had been given a rare chance to see a sport before it went ‘pro’. I thought it would be great to document, before it became bigger and changed.”
