Stories from Australia - A Festival of Award Winning Films: 17th to 20th July 2013

Then the Wind Changed (57 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Directed by Celeste Geer who will introduce the film

Recipient of the 2012 Walkley Award for Best Documentary

On 7 February 2009, Australia suffered its worst natural disaster in recorded history. A firestorm of cyclonic fury swept across Victoria and 173 lives were lost. Through this intimate observation of ordinary people responding to an extraordinary event Then the Wind Changed offers a tender insight into humans' amazing potential to manage adversity and rise from despair

In Conversation
Celeste Geer in conversation with Anupama Srinivasan, filmmaker