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Podcast: Interview Margot Nash
Festival Artistic Director Lynden Barber chats with Margot Nash about her new Australian feature Call Me Mum, starring Lynette Curran.
In this moving drama constructed from interlinking monologues (penned by Kathleen Mary Fallon), a white Australian foster mother, Kate (Catherine McClements), is on a plane escorting Warren, her 18-year-old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet his sick birth mother Flo, in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital when he was a toddler and the authorities took him away. However Kate's Brisbane-based parents are planning a different kind of reunion. Director Margot Nash makes smart use of the film's restricted spaces and the exceptional performances of Dayne Christian as Warren, and Vicki Saylor as Flo cut straight through to the emotions.
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY
Margot Nash began her career as an actor in theatre and television. She freelanced as a still photographer, and then went on to become a cinematographer and an editor in the independent film sector. She has produced, written and directed a number of award-winning short films and documentaries. In 1994 she wrote and directed Vacant Possession (SFF '95); a feature drama for which she was nominated for Best Directing and Best Original Screenplay in the AFI awards. Between 1996 and 2001 she worked in the Pacific running documentary training workshops for Pacific Island women. In 2005 Margot directed her second feature Call Me Mum for SBSI. Margot lectures in screenwriting at The University of Technology Sydney.
