"Fist Full of Films" Awards Nights and "Fiddler's Green"

"Fist Full of Films" Awards Nights

Entrance to the Deckchair Cinema, Darwin

On Friday and Saturday, 1st Nov and 2nd Nov, I went to the "Fist Full of Films" Awards Nights, at the Deckchair Cinema in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

It was an excellent experience. It was done professionally. And the local film talent was showcased well, with many local film people attending.

The Deckchair Cinema is situated next to the Bay, down from the Darwin CBD, and is open to the sky. Sometimes it rains, but they have procedures to deal with that ! It closes over the wet season,

The screen and seating arrangement

though.

As you can see, it is quite sizeable. There are ordinary chairs, but the main seating is composed of rows of deckchair like seats,

The view from my seat

as you can see in this photo.

The screen at an interval

This was during a break from the screening of some of the short films that didn't make the finals, but were worthy of a mention.

The films, eventhough from amateur film-makers, were all professionally done. And there were excellent examples of local aboriginal stories and music clip, to stories of local characters, animations from school students, and inventive story ideas. Even a feature film about an Indian
student attending Charles Darwin University (here
in Darwin).                                                                              

    

Cruise liner passing out to sea in the background

"Fiddler's Green"

(c) Katherine Stuart 2013

The award recipients all received a gold coloured statuette of a galah. A galah is a pink and grey coloured bird that is common here. Seeing as the awards are called "The Galah Awards". And the statuette galah stands tall like an Oscar.


This might be a bit hard to see, but it's actually a cruise liner passing out of Darwin harbour out to sea, behind the people standing up. This was taken from my seat, and you can see the reflection of the lights from the ship on the water.






Fiddler's Green is the restaurant that I had lunch at on the Saturday.

It is an Irish bar, in the Waterfront Precinct near the Darwin CBD.

This is the fiddler,











and this is the shingle over the doorway.

It reads,
 
       "cead mile failte"

For those who don't know Irish,
it means,

       "a hundred thousand
          welcomes"

( I'm only learning, if you saw
   what I put up before :p )