Mangiamele's Day: Ninety Nine Percent + Clay

Synopsis

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and Ronin Films, celebrates the work of Italian-Australian filmmaker and photographer, Giorgio Mangiamele (1926-2001). The afternoon features fully restored 35mm prints from National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s 2011 Giorgio Mangiamele restoration project.

The Films: Ninety Nine Percent (1963) - Pino, an Italian immigrant widower, seeks an agency bride to keep house and be wife and mother to him and his son Peter. Clay (1965) fllows an artist's daughter falls in love with the hunted criminal she and her father sheltered from police.

4:00pm: Welcoming remarks. / 4:05pm: Ninety-Nine Percent (1963, 47 mins, Rated M) / 5:00pm: Panel discussion on Giorgio Mangiamele's filmmaking, his contribution to Australian cinema and the social issues his films raised. Paolo Barlera returns to chair, alongside Mangiamele’s biographer Dr. Gino Moliterno, programmer and critic Geoffrey Gardner and film archivist Quentin Turnour. / 6.00pm: Reception for ticket holders. / 7:00pm Clay (1965, 85 mins, Rated M)

The Panellists: Dr. Gino Moliterno is the author of Giorgio Mangiamele: A life in photography (2012) and (with Gaetano Rando) of Celluloid Immigrant: Italian Australian Filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele (2011). He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Film and New Media at the Australian National University. / Geoffrey Gardner is a long-standing writer, programmer and film distributor. He edits the Film Alert 101 blog, convenes the organising committee for Sydney’s Cinema Reborn Film Festival and is a past artistic director of the Melbourne Film Festival. / Quentin Turnour is a film programmer, historian, and archivist, currently working at the National Archive of Australia’s Audiovisual Preservation Section. From 2005 to 2014 he was head programmer of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Canberra Arc Cinema. He is also a senior programming consultant to the Cinema Reborn Film Festival.