Little Fish
directed by Rowan Woods
- Product information
- Icon Entertainment
- Star rating
- Product link
- http://www.littlefishmovie.com/
Tracy has her life sorted. After kicking a heroin addiction, she’s ground out four years in a video store, and stayed clean. It isn’t easy. Family friend Lionel, who got her hooked, is still around, and brother Ray deals. Tracy, though, is indomitable, swimming every day and planning a future running her own video place. The problem is that she needs $30,000. Turned down by two banks – she’s got a conviction for minor benefit fraud, she has no security, and she’s lied on the application form – she’s tempted to get involved in a deal with Ray.
Although the plot is involved and rooted in the complications of love, friendship and ties of family and work in a Sydney suburb, the themes are anything but local – how the past sets up the present, how parental expectations live with you, how lies seem to offer a way out but dig you deeper in the mire. The script’s final shift into thriller territory is untidy, but Cate Blanchett, coolly tracing Tracy’s faltering attempts to escape banality, remains utterly convincing.
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Voices from the margins:
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- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
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- Vinayan from India on agriculture
