SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

In association with the exhibition Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge
a significant multi-screen cinematic work
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation presents

Caroline Baum
in conversation with film-maker,
Tony Ayres

Saturday, 7 May 2011
3 – 5 pm

Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge
Also screening: Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest
Exhibition dates:
18 March – 4 June 2011

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Speakers:

Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and broadcaster who has worked for the BBC, ABC TV, ABC Radio and Foxtel on a wide variety of arts programmes. She contributes to the Sydney Morning Herald and national publications. She was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine, co-wrote and co-produced a documentary for SBS TV on crime writer Arthur Upfield and is currently developing several documentary projects through her company, Two Heads Media. Caroline hosts talks at arts festival around the country and has been a judge for several major literary awards.

Tony Ayres is an award winning writer and director in both drama and documentary. His film, Home Song Stories (2007), which is loosely based on Tony’s own life, tells the story of a beautiful Chinese cabaret singer called Rose, who comes to Australia with her two children in the 1970s. Home Song Stories premiered in Berlin and won 23 Australian and international awards including 8 AFI Awards. In recent times he has become a producer of television, making the Bogan Pride and Anatomy series.