Gender:
Female
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The Mini-skirted Dynamo
( dir. Rivka Hartman
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Australia
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1996
25706506
1996
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'In this captivating, perplexing portrait of her mother, Dora Bialestock, filmmaker Rivka Hartman explores the wildly contradictory nature of this well-known Melbourne figure. Several inches less than five feet tall, she was a tiny dynamo, an awesome intellectual and an original thinker. A world renowned pathologist, she also campaigned tirelessly in the 1960s and early 70s for the Victorian Government to recognise the extent of child abuse in the community at a time when people refused to acknowledge that it even occurred. She also championed the development of good, freely available childcare.'
Source: Ronin Films.
- 1996 winner AWGIE Awards — Major Award
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