Annie Goldson to screen An Island Calling

Annie Goldson to screen An Island Calling at AHA Film Festival

Annie Goldson has been selected to screen her acclaimed documentary An Island Calling at the fourth American Historical Association (AHA) Film Festival in San Diego this coming January. She has also been invited to participate as a panelist at the festival.

An Island Calling explores a double gay murder in Suva, Fiji in 2001 – Fiji Red Cross Director-General John Scott and his partner Greg Scrivener were murdered in the name of God by a young indigenous man. Based in part on a book Deep Beyond the Reef by John’s brother, Owen Scott, An Island Calling tells a postcolonial tale of a country deeply divided along tribal, class and ethnic lines.

Founded in 1884, the AHA is the largest historical society in the United States, providing leadership and advocacy for the historical profession. The fourth AHA Film Festival is held in conjunction with the AHA’s Annual Meeting from 7-10 January and centres on the theme “Oceans, Islands, Continents”.

An Island Calling will be presented alongside five other documentary works designed to complement and expand upon the AHA meeting’s theme, including the classic island film released in 1931, F.W. Murnau and Robert J Flaherty’s Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, and Atom Egoyan’s Aratat, a film that explores the Armenian genocide and its lasting repercussions. The screening and discussion of An Island Calling will be hosted by Vilsoni Hereniko and Tarcicius Kabutaulaka, both of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

An Island Calling has received seven awards, including Best Documentary at the Qantas Media Awards and the Grand Prix at FIFO in Tahiti, and most recently it was awarded Best Documentary at the Outtakes International Film Festival in Dallas, Texas.

The broadcast version of An Island Calling, titled Murder in the Pacific, aired on TV3 late last year. The film is being distributed in North America by Icarus Films (New York) and in Europe and Asia by Java Films (France). It has shown in several other international film festivals, including Hotdocs in Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Newfest (New York), Frameline, Seattle and FIPA (France).

View the trailer on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzozLHu_Oxw

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