solid screen festival

Marking Dia de los Muertos , thankyou for joining us in the gathering spirit for a Solid Screening of Indigenous short films curated by Jenny Fraser. It was good to have a yarn and raise a glass in joyful tribute of our loved ones in the Spirit World.  Dress: It was great that community showed up, dressed for a spooky Mexico-style Photo Shoot , and also brought flowers. Congratulations to those who won best dressed prizes.  2pm - 4pm Sunday 30 October 2022 at Roxy Gallery, Kyogle, Northern Rivers Bundjalung Country. free! (see below for more detail) Screening :  Pulelehua by Phoenix Maimiti Valentine (Hawaii) 2019 - As evident as the metamorphosis of a butterfly (Pulelehua), or flowers in bloom, LOVE transforms! 'Pulelehua' is made in honor of Hawai'i's Beloved Queen Liliuokalani, who was inspired by nature & encouraged her Kingdom to live Aloha. ‘Pulelehua' is created from the perspective of a Monarch Butterfly on it's favorite Crown Flower, as Queen Lili...

Rescheduled to 2023 - stay tuned for updates The Solid Screen International Indigenous Film Festival with outdoor screening, filmmaker Q&A and a progressive dinner will be held in the Lismore CBD, developing Aboriginal participation in the bushfoods industry and collaboration with local businesses. more info soon

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...