People.
Zawadi is Swahili for gift.
Zawadi is a film and photographic art installation premiering at the Big City Lights Festival 2024.
It is an ode to the rich tapestry of diversity and the gift it is to humanity. Featuring women from the Multicultural Families Organisation.
Multicultural Families Organisation (MFO) is a not-for-profit organisation that has supported culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families and communities on the Gold Coast since 1996. MFO’s dedicated staff originate from 21 different countries and share a passion for equality, social justice and human rights.
Production.
Women of Zawadi: Salma + Namrata + Agness
Creative: Jude Kalman and the women of Zawadi
Director + Camera + Photographer + Sound and Editor: Jude Kalman
Camera Assistants: Leilani Roelofs, Jemma Kuchel & Eliza Chambers
Production Assistant: Rana Al Mekarry
Makeup Artist: Kylie Eustace
Dress Maker Tanzania: Neema Mshombozi – Founder Ney-Classics-Wear
Costume Designer and Maker Australia: Jess Hansen- Co-Founder of Messy Threads Designed and made the Prawn dress
Artist: Tailored Pattern Illustration – Prawn Design: Amanda Gorman
Printing Fabric for Prawn Dress: Left Bank. artgroup
This film is funded by the Queensland Government’s Investing in Queensland Women program
Deliverables:
1 x 8 min – Vertical art installation
1 x 8 min short film
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Impact.
You are invited to join us in Southport, Australia 21 June – 7 July 2024 and Big City Lights