 CALL ME MUM - directed by Margot Nash; written by Kathleen Mary Fallon; produced by Michael McMahon. Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. 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, Keith and Dellmay, 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. Margot Nash began her career as an actor in theatre and television. She was a member of the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Melbourne in the 70's where she began videotaping shows and taking still photographs. After moving to Sydney she joined the Sydney Filmmakers Co op and began working in the independent film sector. She has produced, written and directed a number of award-winning short films and documentaries, as well as freelancing as a cinematographer and an editor. Her first film We Aim To Please about female sexuality won a Jury Prize at L'Homme Regarde Homme film festival in Paris in 1978. She was co filmmaker and editor on the feature documentary For Love or Money about the history of women and work in Australia, which screened at internationally at festivals including Berlin, Toronto and the Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival. For Love or Money received a United Nations Media Peace prize in 1985. Margot has worked for SBS and CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) as both a consultant and a mentor for Indigenous filmmakers and between 1996 and 2001 she worked in the Pacific running documentary training workshops for Pacific Island women television producers. She has worked extensively as a film teacher and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Writing and Cultural studies Department at The University of Technology Sydney where she teaches screenwriting. Click here to view a video interview with Margot Nash on her film, Call Me Mum. |