Club CDoc presents pop-up documentary screenings
and hosts discussion, workshops and events throughout the year.
Previous events 2023-2024
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
International Women's Day eve Screening & Music Performance Thursday March 7th and Saturday 9th, 2024 Theatre Royal
Shere Hite’s 1976 groundbreaking study of the intimate experiences of women, The Hite Report, remains one of the bestselling books of all time. The book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. But few remember Shere Hite today. What led to her erasure?
GRASS AND ZÖJ
Screening & Performance Friday March 1st, 2024 Astor Theatre
A not-to-be-missed cinema experience mixing live music with one of the greatest silent films of all time. After a stand-out premier at the 2023 Castlemaine Documentary Festival, Grass and ZÖJ will play for one night only at Melbourne's iconic Astor Theatre.
Editing Workshop for Filmmakers
Saturday March 2nd Castlemaine Senior CItizens Centre
Build your capacity for great visual storytelling by learning the art of digital editing. You will develop your knowledge of video editing software, learn how best to organise your material, what makes a great edit, mixing audio, adding titles and a soundtrack - and most importantly, how to share your work at the end.
HELLO DANKNESS
Soda Jerk
Screening & Q&A Tuesday January 23 Theatre Royal
Soda Jerk (Terror Nullius) returns with Hello Dankness - a new film comprised entirely of film samples. A political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, Hello Dankness explores the mythologies and lore that took root around it.
Sound & Vision Workshop for Storytellers
Full-Day Saturday November 25 Senior Citizen Centre, Castlemane
Led by local practitioners Tony Jackson, Leonie VanEyk and Kyla Brettle. A full-day workshop developing technical skills in sound and vision - focusing on getting content and coverage when making short non-fiction films. Offered to support the production of entries into ‘LOCALS 2024’, a program of short non-fiction work screeneing Opening Night of the next Castlemaine Documentary Festival.
NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV Amanda Kim
Screening Thursday October 26 Theatre Royal
Was that “The George Washington of Video Art”? or a “Cultural Terrorist”? Maybe even “Citizen Zero of the Electronic Superhighway”? Who really was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history?
SENSES OF CINEMA
John Hughes & Tom Zubrycki
John Hughes & Tom Zubrycki
Screening and Q&A Sat 7 Oct at the Northern Arts Hotel
The rise and fall of Filmmakers’ Co-operatives is a lively, untold story of the late 20th century Australia that links social movements of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s with an ‘underground’ cinema that fostered alternative filmmaking enterprise in production, distribution and exhibition.
CLIMATE CHANGERS: Tim Flannery's Search for Climate Leadership
Screening and Q&A 17 September, Theatre Royal
CLIMATE CHANGERS - a brave new film tracking Prof. Tim Flannery’s global search for genuine climate leadership and reflection on his own trajectory as a conservationist. Screened in concert across Australia, the film will be followed by a live zoom Q&A with Tim Flannery, Australian-American inventor and engineer Saul Griffith and international human rights lawyer Kavita Naidoo.
Filmmaking Workshop for Storytellers
with Tony Jackson, Bergen O'Brien and Sam Dinning
9 September, Northern Arts Hotel
Storytelling and film development with three acclaimed documentary makers.
Supporting entry into LOCALS – documentary films for locals by locals screening Opening Night at the Festival 2024.
THE UNREDACTED
Jihad Rehab
Australian Premier, 3 May, Theatre Royal
A group of men trained by al-Qaeda are transferred from Guantanamo to the world’s first rehabilitation center for “terrorists” located in Saudi Arabia. Filmed over three years, with unprecedented access, this film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the men we have heard so much about but never heard from.
BECAUSE WE HAVE
EACH OTHER
Sari Braithwaite
Screenings, 23 April, Theatre Royal
Made over five years, Because We Have Each Other is a delightfully hyper- intimate feature. A masterclass in slice-of-life documentary, the film embeds its audience in the life of a neurodiverse family in the forgotten working-class suburb of Logan.
LOCAL'S RELOADED &
WALKING WITH FISH
Michael Harkin
Screening, 21 March, Theatre Royal
To commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the Fringe Festival the Premier screening of WALKING THE FISH, a film about the birth of Castlemaine Fringe.
CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY
Screenings, 8 March, Theatre Royal
Castlemaine Documentary Festival and Theatre Royal proudly present two films centring courageous, impactful women.
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, Laura Poitras
& MIUCHA: THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA, Liliane Mutti and Daniel Zarvos
EDITING WORSHOP
with Bergen O'Brien
4 March, Senior Citizens Centre
A hands on editing workshop. Participants to bring in footage to edit.
Supporting entry into LOCALS – documentary films for locals by locals screening Opening Night at the Festival 2024.
