SOLID SCREEN Festival 2015 at The Cairns Institute

Jenny Fraser introducing the SOLID SCREEN QUEENS works at The Cairns Institute 2015

 cyberTribe presents SOLID - an International Festival of the Screen.SOLID Screen includes a range of screenings from invited Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Native Canadian and Maori screen storytellers, that respond to important transformations that have reconfigured opportunities for experimental arts, remix and media arts practice, in recent times.The SOLID Screen Festival held on the 16th September 2015 screened works by women artists, it was open to the public, and welcomed men, women and children.The screen makers are interdisciplinary practitioners from artforms such as animation, video, interactive media, photography, writing, performance, film and new media arts backgrounds.The screening took place at The Cairns Institute, Smithfield Campus, Far North Queensland. SOLID SCREEN Festival was a pre-conference event for The Tropics of the Imagination.Celebrating 15 years of cyberTribe online gallery events and exhibitions in 2015.

SOLID SCREEN Festival is a part of the 'Directed by Women' program: a worldwide viewing party, bringing the global film community together for a powerful 15 day worldwide film viewing party rejoicing in the incredible diversity of films ‪#‎DirectedbyWomen‬: September 1-15, 2015.During this exuberant celebration, film lovers gathered together in communities around the world for film screenings & guest filmmaker visits designed to focus attention on and offer appreciation for women film directors and their work

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