Righteo everyone, warm up your telly, a fab friend has made a gorgeous doco.
A large group of more than fifty family and friends have camped in the same spot on Australia’s Murray River every Easter for the last 40 years. Within the very Australian Easter tradition of camping holidays, their own German and unique rituals have evolved. Frohe Ostern! (Happy Easter!) is a high spirited micro-history.
She’s a talented writer and director who crafts stories with sensitivity and a lovely aesthetic touch, and says:
Over the production period of getting to know the campers and their histories, poignant tales of migration rose to the surface. Encased in the story of their camping traditions every Easter since 1969, is the story of the gradual evolution of identity from German to Australian. Although many tales of migration to Australia are characterised by hardship and struggle, Frohe Ostern! deliberately celebrates the positive aspects of migration to Australia’s multicultural society. With Frohe Ostern! I was compelled to make a film that is about time, place and above all, people.
It will be broadcast on SBS this Friday evening at 7.30pm.
Here’s the trailer for a sneak peek.
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