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Impact Film Challenge

Lessons is currently touring film festivals internationally and can only be viewed publicly via festival screenings. In April/May 2022, it will be screened at our home festival, the Gold Coast Film Festival, as part of the Emerge film program, inspiring student filmmakers from around Queensland and Australia.

People.

In “Lessons”, award-winning cinematographer Jude Kalman partners with debut screenwriter Summer Brown whose script delivers a heartwrenching snapshot of her lived experience of domestic abuse through the eyes of children, learning lessons for life.

What are your kids learning?

Summer now heads up the Impact Film Challenge and is teaming up with schools across Australia, mentoring in the industry to help teenagers express the issues they face through film production and screenwriting.

Production:

Creative: Summer Brown

Director / DOP / Editor: Jude Kalman

Executive Producer: Brett McCallum & Media8

DOP: Jake Lawlor

Camera Assistant: Isaac Lawlor

Actor dad: Andy Sparnon

Actor mum: Illana Collins

Actor teenager: Skylah Burns

Actor teenager: Judson Gainfort

Actor child: Cruze King

Deliverable: 1 x 1min micro film

Impact.

Award Winner – Poe Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Best Documentary

Award Winner – Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2021 (Japan) – Best Female Director

Award Winner – Calcutta International Cult Film Festival 2021 (India) – Women’s Films

Award Winner – Toronto Independent Film Festival 2021 (Canada) – Short Short (Under 5 Mins)

Award Winner – Dili International Film Festival 2021 (Timor Leste) – Public Service Announcement

Award Winner – Hong Kong World Film Festival 2021 (Hong Kong) – Best Under 5 Minute Film

Award Winner – Independent Shorts Awards 2021 (USA) – Best Micro Film

Official Selection – LAMPA International Film Festival 2021 (Russia) – Social Advertising

Official Selection – City of Angels Women’s Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Short Shorts

Official Selection – Infinity Film Festival 2021 (UK) – Best Micro Short

Official Selection – Idlewild International Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Micro Short Narratives

Official Selection – YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Short Shorts

Official Selection – Canberra Short Film Festival 2021 (Australia) – 2 Minute Film

Official Selection – Ridgway Independent Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Professional category

Official Selection – Norwalk Film Festival 2021 (USA) – Commercials

Official Selection – Festival Angaelica 2021 (USA) – Mini

Official Selection – Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival 2022 (USA) – Narrative Short

Official Selection – Kalakari Film Festival 2022 (India) – Short Fiction Special Awards

Official Selection – The French Duck Film Festival 2022 (France) – Best Micro Short Film

A pilot course is currently running where students are creating, filming and editing their own short films.

Aussie Mum African Heart

People.

Meet Trishelle Sayuuni, a teacher from the Gold Coast Coast, Queensland who packed her bags and whole life to move to Uganda and start a school. Her charity is 100% Hope. Aussie Mum African Heart is a story about Trishelle and the children and families in Uganda impacted by her vision.

Production:

Creative: Carrie-Anne Greenbank

Director / Producer: Carrie-Anne Greenbank

Director / Camera / Editor: Jude Kalman

Deliverable: 1 x 30 min documentary

Impact:

Aussie Mum African Heart featured on Channel 9 over the Easter weekend in 2017 with an overwhelming response. Starting with a news story on Friday 6pm news, Saturday morning’s Today show followed. The documentary aired in it’s entirety on Channel 9 nationally on Saturday afternoon. Due to the positive response, it was aired again on Easter Sunday on 9Gem and then again in May 2018, all nationwide.

The success was not just the broadcast. Viewers responded with great interest and the sponsorship of children increased along with financial support for the programs that 100% Hope offer. You still can contribute to this important charitable project, so for more information visit www.100-hope.org

Excerpt from “Aussie Mum African Heart”

A Documentary: Uncontained Love

People.

For over a decade now, a family from the Gold Coast have quietly driven an initiative that delivers shipping containers filled with educational supplies, medical equipment and other household goods to communities in need throughout Africa.

Production.

Creative: Jude Kalman

Producer: Carrie-Anne Greenbank

Producer / Director / Cinematographer /Photographer / Editor: Jude Kalman

“Uncontained Love” is a series of three short documentaries about this initiative, produced and directed by the award-winning Queensland cinematographer Jude Kalman.

It tells stories of the transformation that occurs in these African communities when the containers are delivered, and the work of partnering organisations who, in the face of great need, respond in love. Already, the group have delivered much needed supplies and services to Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia.

Kalman’s latest release “Uncontained Love: Love > Fear” explores the human struggle between love and fear, following a recent project in one of Nigeria’s major cities, Jos, where threats of persecution from terrorists Boko Haram and other rebel groups is a daily reality. Filming on location, Kalman interviews families and children displaced by crisis and explores the motivation behind those mobilised to help.

“Uncontained Love: Love > Fear” seeks to stimulate conversation about refugees and how we might respond to the needs of those most profoundly impacted by crisis in Africa.

Impact.

Awards:

“Uncontained Love: Love > Fear” – Winner – 2018 CMAA Award for Compelling Film / TV / Video Content.

“Uncontained Love: Love > Fear” – Award for Excellence – Docs Without Borders Festival 2018

Uncontained Love: Love > Fear – Winner – People’s Choice at YoFiFest 2020 (New York).

1 x cutdown

Watch Uncontained Love

Sahaja – yoga mats that give back

People.

Meet Judes Yang, she is a social entrepreneur whose yoga mats give back. She is the first in the world to achieve BCorp status for her Sahaja Yoga Mats.

Her collaboration with Marine Megafauna Foundation sees her profits go toward marine education and swimming lessons for kids in Tofo, Mozambique.

Production.

Creative: Judes Yang + Jude Kalman

Director / Camera / Drone / Photography / Editor: Jude Kalman

Deliverables:

1 x 13 min short documentary

5 x cutdowns for social media / marketing purposes

Photography for promotional purposes

Impact.

Marine education in Tofo, Mozambique.

Nice Coffee Co.

Jim Chapman
Nice Coffee Co

Click to view Nice Coffee Co. – Our Story

People.

Meet Jim Chapman, Sandy Hickson and Nathaniel Pointing. These three young social entrepreneurs are brewing the “nicest” coffee the world has ever seen.

Production.

Creative: Jude Kalman

Cinematographer / Director / Editor : Jude Kalman

Journalist: Carrie- Anne Greenbank

Photographer: Whitney Palmer

Deliverables:

1 x 5min story

5 x cutdowns for social media / marketing purposes

80 stills package

1 x compile footage + story + stills for media outlets

1 x coffee table book – all profits to St John’s School

Impact.

Australian national broadcast and print coverage; Channel 9 and The Australian.

Winner of the Special Education Prize at the LAMPA Film Festival (RUS) 2020.

Speaking engagement at The United Nations, Geneva for #INFOCUS Inclusive Social Transformations Forum 2020.

You can help them brew the nicest coffee the world has ever seen by purchasing their beans for your office or household. Go to https://www.nicecoffee.org/ to add to the impact.

2 x cutdowns for social media / marketing

Eczema Support Australia

People.

Eczema Support Australia (ESA) provides essential information, connection, and advocacy to Australians living with eczema, striving to help them overcome challenges and thrive.

Production.

Creative: Melanie Funk (ESA) + Jude Kalman

Camera / Editor / Photographer: Jude Kalman

Ongoing deliverables include marketing, educational, and advocacy campaigns.

Impact.

Awareness stories, content and campaign about Australian children and families living with Eczema. National broadcast coverage; ABC, Channel 9 news, A Current Affair, Channel 7, Courier Mail.

Stories and content for the “SOS Save our Skin Campaign” resulted in the eczema treatment Dupixent being added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), helping hundreds of Australian families living with eczema.

Educational video resources were produced for early childhood centres, schools, and families living with eczema.

Teenagers Living with Eczema – Niamh’s Story Cutdown
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