Inner Game
“Inner Game” is the story of a young girl who tries to transform herself in order to please others around her. The script is written by Sheruni Peiris and I had the privilege of directing the film. The entire cast and crew was very friendly and supportive. I could say it was one of the best crew I have ever worked with as a director. It was their help that brought this film so far.
“Inner Game” was screened at PNAN Festival as one of the finalists. It will be released NOV this year.
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When president Obama was announced as the president of USA, a new window was open to the whole world. People in the world celebrated this in many different ways, so I decided to construct some words together that would illustrate my feelings towards this historical moment of our world.
Hello love, goodbye hate.
Hello peace, goodbye war.
Hello happiness, goodbye sadness.
Hello fairness, goodbye unfairness.
Hello ruth, goodbye ruthless.
Hello respect, goodbye contempt.
Hello excitement, goodbye bordem.
Hello lightness, goodbye darkness.
Hello birds, goodbye bats.
Hello summer, goodbye winter.
Hello harmony, goodbye disharmony.
Hello life, goodbye death.
Hello Obama, goodbye Bush
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It was the 7th of November 2005 just one year after I came to Australia; I went to start my work experience at Woolworths in Liverpool. I was 16 at that time.
When I arrived there, I asked for my supervisor and she came. But she did not let me start because I was not wearing the correct uniform because I didn’t understand the form she gave me. Then she gave me a chance to buy new pants.
After that, I decided to buy new pants but all the shops were closed because the time was five past eight.
I waited until half past nine until Target opened. I ran to the store and bought pants but I could not find a place to change. I ran to friend’s house, which was near to Liverpool, (Just 1km) and I changed.
I came back to Woolworths and I started working. The manager came up to me:” Where is your tie?” he asked me. “I am on work experience,” I answered. “But you should have the correct uniform.” he said and went away.
After a while, a lady brought me a tie but I did not know how to put it on and she gave it to someone else to fix for me. The person, who fixed the tie for me, was taller than I was so the tie was too long and I started to work. I had to pick up a box and put it on a high shelf. My long, long tie got caught on the box and nearly pulled me up on the shelf, too. I felt extremely silly.
When I finished I went to my friend’s house, I asked him to fix the tie, and he didn’t know it too. I finally w go it done some how. The next day I started at the correct time with the correct uniform.
That day was a horrible day but I tried to solve the problem and I did. However, it was a very funny day and a wonderful experience.
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You write the novels of all creatures
Elaborating them
In a verity of features
I was also a creature
Same as others in this world.
But you did not compose
My novel very well.
You have characterised me,
In a way, where:
I don’t know who I am,
Where I am from?
Where I am going?
In my role.
There is not an Orientation,
There is not a Complication
There can’t be a sequence of events
To take me to the Resolution
Novelist of Destiny!
It is not late to start again
The introduction,
With words,
Full of light, truth and happiness
It is not late
To start the complication
And defeat it
With the powerful grammar of peace
Novelist of Destiny!
I don’t want the last set
I don’t want the old state.
You are the most sophisticated Novelist
And what I request from you
Is a new season and a new beginning.
If it is not possible,
If I don’t deserve it,
At least
A happy ending.
A happy ending
Will be a release for me
To fly, celebrate and shout
I am out! I am out!
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When Hawanatu walked in to a shooting zone in 2006 for the first time, she realised that there is something more than passion in her about film. That inspired her to direct her first
short film after three years. “It was in my last year of HSC. A family friend asked me to be involved in a film called Eternel Love and because I was older than other kids they put me in the director’s position” Said Hawanatu Bangura, 20.
According to Hollywood it takes three years to draft and over draft a film script. However it took Hawanatu two years to complete her first short film Alhaji. This demonstrates her passion and love towards film making. “My involvement in the 2006 short film made me realise that I have potential in film making,”
Hawantu’s film Alhaji is a short drama film about a young African refugee and his new life in Australia. “The film is about the life of a young refugee from Africa on his early 20s who finds it hard to fit in to the Australian society and how he manages to overcome his challenge.” Coming form a refugee background Hawanatu believes that people must know what it takes to settle in to a new country. Alhaji will be premièred on the 20th of June at Casula Powerhouse Theatre, South West Sydney, during international refugee week.
Hawanatu arrived in Australia from Sierra Leon as a refugee with her family seven years ago. Finished high school in 2006 and now is studying social work and social science in UNSW. She has always been taking dance classes and loved performing arts. “I have had some experiences in dance and dram as I used to do them at high school but I believe my real potential is in directing films.”
Hawanatu attended a film workshop in 2007 and since that time she started working on her recent film Alhaji. She received professional help and mentoring form a group of volunteer film makers. “I started the script after the film workshop and some of my mentors form the workshop helped me create this film.”
As any other passionate film maker Hawantu is not only involved in Alhaji, she is currently drafting her next film that will be supported by ICE (Information Culture Exchange). “They say film industry is not an industry where you work form 9am to 5pm week days only”
Hawanatu’s passion is not only about making films that entertain, it is to bring differences in the world and people’s life. She uses her social work skills to target this specific idea. “Coming form a social work background I would like my films to be about social issue such as in justice, inequality and peace.”
A part from university assignments and exams Hawanatu is attending film making classes where she will gain more knowledge about the technical side of a film production. She will then put everything she has learnt in to practice as she is creating her next film.
Directing films is more about leading the production crow and making the tough decisions. And being the leader in a film production, Hawanatu is inspired to become a leader in the future. “I want to be a leader in this society and help people in my own community as well as the world.”
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Write off: How has the global financial crisis affected you & your family & friends?
Paul, 30, Independent Distributor & Wellness Coach, Sydney:
“I have not been approached by the employment agency I am registered with since November regarding anything. They usually offer administration work or telesales stuff. My mother [is] back in Ireland has had to take a pay cut far more than she can cope with.”
Jessie ,18, student, Blacktown:
“The global financial crisis has affected my family but only to a small extent. We know that times are tough and we need to use our money wisely. But because we are use to spending a lot it’s hard to change our buying habits. It also depends on the families situation for example at the moment we need to get a new car as our family cannot survive on one car therefore a lot of money is also used the there. Overall it is in the back of our heads that times are tough however it hasn’t affected us as much as perhaps other families.”
Domanic, Sales person, 20 Miller:
“Well it hasn’t really affected me or my family too much, but we don’t own a business. A lot of business’s I talk to tell me they have slowed down and had to let some workers go because there is no work for them.”
Samantha, 19, housewife, Liverpool:
“Not me as of yet. It has a mate of mine, He lost his job due too they couldn’t afford to keep him and 12 others on. He lives in Brisbane Another friend in Deniliquin, lost his job due to the same reason. & my aunty in Darwin lost her job as the business shut down.”
Arthur, 53, project manager, Liverpool:
“My son used to work casual as an accounting officer. Since December last year the company has not called him. He is given his resume to all the accounting agencies but they haven’t rang him yet. Now he is studying Diploma of Fitness so he can work as a personal trainer.”
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Laura Ritchie, 18, from Blue Mountains, dreams of becoming a writer. Laura finished high school last year & currently studying communications & media.
Q: What inspired you to do this course?
A: I didn’t have an inspiration to do this course. However I always wanted to be a writer.
Q: Describe your self?
A: Crazy, very interested in reading and writing. I am attempting to write a book.
Q: What is your book about?
A: It is a fantasy novel. My imagination inspires me to write this book.
Q: Who do you target as your audience & what do you communicate with them?
A: Teenagers the target audience and I want them to be themselves no matter what they do.
Q: What do you hope to get out of this course?
A: I hope to get to university. I am thinking to do social work and help children.
Q: At which stage of your life would you hope to have children?
A: Late 20s or early 30s I would like to have a family.
Q: Who do you most admire?
A: There is not a famous person I admire. Probably my best friend who I admire the most because she has gone through a hard time, even though it took her a long time, she is got to where she wants to be. She is 19.
Q: Would you consider yourself as a role model for other young people?
A: My cousin. She is seven and wants to be like me. I also help my best friends.
Q: Tell us about your family. What is your parents’ occupation?
A: My father is from Scotland. He moved here when he was four year old. He owns his own company as a forensic investigator. My mother is also working with my father.
Q: Where will you be in the next 5 or 10 years?
A: Hopefully I have my few books to be published. I’d like to work with children.
Q: What is your message to other teenagers?
A: Be yourself no matter who you are.
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Sometimes you may wonder if peace is possible in this world or not. Sometimes you may say to yourself that dreaming for a peaceful world is nothing than wast of time.
You see someone speaks about making peace in this world and you may start making fun because this sounds like a joke to you, a joke that is far away from reality.
It is understandable because you and I live in a place where peace does not exist. You and I are surrounded by the war. A war that has been started by some people like me and you. Why? I don’t know as you don’t know & as they don’t know.
What you and I must know is that peace is possible. Let me tell you how.
The world has been created by small individual world that you and I and millions, millions of other humans have. Our individual worlds are bricks being constructed to build this place called the world. Imagine if you and start to make our world a peaceful and beautiful world, the wider world will automatically become peaceful because the construction is peaceful and nothing can destroy it. Good bricks give you a still and hard building that’s for sure.
How you and I can make our world peaceful? Very simple.
From the time you & I finish reading this, you & I will decide to love, respect & understand each other and everyone else in this world. We persuade ourselves to realise that we are different, we have different ways of thinking, and we have different beliefs. However we do not have the right to question and attack each other’s opinions and a belief because living free and peaceful is the right of every human in this world.
Don’t forget that those differences bring variety to this world, our world. And variety always brings interest, love and excitement in everything. And they bring love, interest and excitement to the world too.
Make a difference and make is now. This is our world and we together can change the world.
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