Staff research: Margot Nash
Call me Mum
Call Me Mum - a 76 minute drama:
When Kate decides to reunite her
Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous
family and racial tensions surface.
Kate (Catherine McClements) is on a plane taking Warren (Dayne
Christian) her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet
Flo (Vicki Saylor), his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in
Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on
Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took
him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the
reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate’s Brisbane based parents, Dellmay
(Lynettte Curran) and Keith (Ross Thompson) are planning a different
kind of reunion. Set in the recent past, Call Me Mum is a series of
interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of
mothering, race relations and family in Australia.
Made for SBS Independent Call Me Mum was produced by Michael McMahon of Big and Little Films and written by Kathleen Mary Fallon. Director of Photography: Andrew De Groot, Editor Denise Haratzis, production designer Paddy Readron, Composer David Bridie.
Festivals and Awards
Shortlisted NSW Premiers Literary Awards, Nominated AWGIE (Australian
Writers Guild) Awards.
Sydney Film Festival, Winnipeg International Film Festival, The Female
Eye, Toronto, Young at Heart, Radwick Ritz.
Shortlisted NSW Premiers Literary Awards, Nominated AWGIE (Australian
Writers Guild) Awards.
Sydney, Adelaide, Winnipeg International Film Festival, The Female Eye,
Toronto, Young at Heart, Randwick Ritz, Genres of History Conference
ANU, Townsville Cultural Centre.
Reviews
Metro Magazine - Issue 150 A Proper Sorry Film by Felicity Collins.
Review and interview with Margot Nash
The Monthly - Feb 2007 Who's Your Mummy? Review by Adrian Martin
Realtime + OnScreen Aug/Sept 2006 Seeing Voices by Keith Gallash
Links:
- Adelaide Film Festival
- Sydney Film Festival
Pod cast interview with Margot Nash about the
making of ''Call me Mum
Vacant Possession
Writer/Director. Feature drama. 35mm 95 min Producer John Winter - Wintertime Films. 1994
Vacant Possession is the story of two families - one white, one Aboriginal - both living in the shadow of the past. A past fragmented by events too long unresolved. Weaving dream, memory, fantaasy, present and past, Vacant Possession is a story of confl ict and the complexities of reconciliation.
Higher resolution image of the film cover (pdf, 153kb)
AWARDS:
1995 AFI Nominations: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound.
1996 Speciale Mention du Jury: Films Des Femmes Créteil , France
1997 Audience Award: La Mo-Viola Cinema Delle Donna - Torino, Italy.
Shadow Panic
Producer/Writer/Director. 16mm 26min 1986
Three women, strangers to each other, yet their lives seem inexplicably linked. A short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.
AWARDS
Red Ribbon (Film as Art) : American Film and Video Festival 1990.
Winner General Award Innovative Category: ATOM Australian Teachers of Media Awards 1990.
Best Cinematography: AFI Australian Film Institute Awards 1989.
Certificate of Merit: Melbourne Film Festival 1989
Special Commendation for a New Australian Film: Frames Festival of Film and Video. Adelaide 1990.
Best Experimental Nomination: AFI Awards 1989
Finalist General Section Dendy Awards Sydney Film Festival 1989
For Love or Money
Co filmmaker/Editor 16mm 109 min 1983
Megan McMurchy/Margot Nash/Margot Oliver/Jenny Thornley.
Archival compilation documentary about the history of women and work in Australia.
AWARDS
1985 Gold Citation :United Nations Media Peace Prize: Television 1984 Best Documentary and Best Screenplay Nominations: AFI Awards, Best Feature Documentary: International Women's Cinema Encounter Florence.