solid screen festival

The 2021 Solid Screen Awards have gone to 6 Aboriginal women representing a variety of roles in different media platforms and communities from across Australia. The annual Solid Awards honour those who have long standing and also emerging careers in the screen arts, to acknowledge those creatives who have contributed substantially to their respective industries over decades. The Solid Screen initiatives are home grown in Australia, with a unique focus on Indigenous Women around the world, and a very rare opportunity to celebrate the current outstanding practice, which helps to grow screen culture locally, and also put the regions on the map internationally. The  Solid Screen Storyteller Award  has gone to Miriam Corowa (NSW) and was presented to her during the May converge media conference on Bundjalung Country in her hometown of Lismore in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Miriam is a member of the Minyangbal and Bundjalung people and also has South Sea Islander ...

Solid Screen Festival has been running since 2014 but in 2020 the gathering spirit was marked with the #cyberTribe20yearsStrong project titled  h e a l : http://www.worldscreenculture.tv

Koori Mail article March 2019

  cyberTribe presented SOLID - an International screening of Indigenous Womens storytelling at the Lismore Womens Festival in the Northern Region.  FREE. Curated by Jenny Fraser, SOLID Screen included a range of short film works and digital stories from Aboriginal Australia, Kayche Festival in Mexico and other Indigenous women Digital Storytellers in an expression of solidarity. There was a Bundjalung Welcome To Country Ceremony at 10am at The Quad.  The SOLID Screening was held in the Underground Studio of the Lismore Conservatorium looped from 11am - 3pm on Saturday the 2nd March 2019, and showed works by and about women, and it was open to the public, for all. In the Lismore Gallery Event Space at 1.10pm there was a Q&A with Angelina Hurley (of Wild Black Women, The Point NITV), who discussed her film 'Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wagkun'. The 2019 Solid Screen event was also partly supported with a small grant through Screen ...

SOLID SCREEN was presented in August 2018 at Mount Saint Bernard College as part of NAIDOC celebrations and also at the Gallery Coffee Shoppe for a public screening in Herberton, on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland.  Solid Sisters Documentary > We get an insider perspective of the lives and screen work of the SOLID SISTERS as they gathered at Innot Hot Springs in Far North Queensland for a healing retreat and festival in 2014. SOLID SCREEN was set up as an effort toward the maintenance of screen arts culture from the ground up, and also to recognise and acknowledge the historically important work made by and for the screen. 2014 saw the birthing of the inaugural SOLID SCREEN gatherings. This was a very unique proposal and it provides audiences with a snapshot of the niche artform areas of experimental screen practice and storytelling by Indigenous Women Internationally. Margaret Freeman (Jirrbal Traditional Owner), Joy Beohm (2018 Solid Youth Screen Culture A...

Madeline Hodge - 2018 Solid Screen contribution to Screen Culture Award

2017 SOLID SCREEN Festival at Nungeena Saturday 29 April 2017.  Streek Road, Sunshine Coast.  Beginning at Sunset. cyberTribe presents SOLID - an International Festival of the Screen.  SOLID Screen Festival includes a range of short film works from invited Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Native Canadian and other Indigenous women Digital Storytellers that express the current state of culture in this political climate. Lynn Chapman winner of the Solid Screen Storyteller Award 2017 Lynn Chapman, Semah Mokak-Wischki, Paulsy Casely-Hayford, Michelle Blakeney and Jenny Fraser introduced their films. The SOLID Screen Festival held on the 29th April 2017 screened works by women artists, and was open to the public, for all women and children. First Nations Telegraph News Story P.D. Casely-Hayford winner of the Solid Experimental Screen  Award 2017 facebook event page   map to Nungeena SOLID SCREEN 2017...