Cirrus@Austlit

'In Macário De Souza’s 2022 debut feature film, 6 Festivals, three music-loving friends attend a bucket list of lineups. Over six months the teen trio chase musical escapism, care deeply for one another and experience bursts of maturity. The film traces character arcs that we are familiar with; there are powerful moments of change as the characters reckon with each of their adverse circumstances and navigate who they want to be. In its nuanced portrayals of adolescent friendship, grief and live music experiences, the film offers a unique contribution to the Australian coming-of-age genre. It’s the kind of film I wish I had growing up.' (Introduction)

'Fifteen year old Setara joins a local cricket team as she attempts to rebuild her life in Melbourne after fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan with her mother and older sister.'

Source: Inside Film (https://if.com.au/multicultural-anthology-feature-my-melbourne-kicks-off-under-guidance-of-indian-directors/

'Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate.

'To celebrate its 15th year Mascara Literary Review presents their first print anthology, featuring writing that addresses and explores the theme of resilience through fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. In this anthology, writers explore the multiplicity of resilience – rebellious and experimental, paving the way to reclaim, rewrite and amplify. Resilience offers a futuristic and promising gaze into the future: What does it look like? How did we get here? What have we lost and/or inherited? '

Source: Publisher's blurb.