| Reference Type |
EUREKA STREET
newspaper
|
| Title |
Life on the edge |
| Author(s) | Tim Stoney |
| Publication Date |
01-03-1995 |
| Page Number |
46 |
| Comments |
An article on Ana Kokkinos's background a working class greek kid from the western suburbs who dreamed of being a filmmaker but did law at Monash University instead only later to give up law and make films.
Ana Kokkinos describes her youth as "cultural deprivation, my parents were factory workers - we didn't have alot of money but we certainly didn't starve. The thing was though, you didn't have access to ideas, or interesting things going on in the rest of the world. A real sense of abandonment, which is a very strong emotional theme in the film Only The Brave." |
| Synopsis |
Ana kokkinos talks about the western suburbs and youth in these area's she tells her own story of alienation and abandonment.
Kokkinos also points out that Only The Brave is a film mainly concearned with the exploration of the development of personal identity through issues such as class, ethnicity and sexuality, as well as the whole question of friendship.
Ana kokkinos discusses woman in film and suggests that Australia is lucky it has a good film industry with interesting filmmakers and reasonable goverment funding, and That Australian films are telling interesting stories that people want to hear. |
tags:
add tag Please Wait...
|
|
|
| |
