Punarjanman

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After screening at a limited release season at Mt Vic Flicks in Mount Victoria NSW, as part of the Lumiere Festival. Punarjanman qualified and was nominated for an award at the prestigious 2022 ATOM Awards in the Best Experimental Film Category. The title means rebirth and the film deals with the impact of the events or recent years including Bushfire, Covid and most recently prolonged deluge. It's an experimental film and the students explore these events through dance and movement.

The film was commissioned by the Lumiere Festival (a MAPBM initiative) a moving image festival that took place in Mt Victoria earlier this year. Films and experimental moving image works were screened at MT Victoria.

The film was conceived by local artist and teacher Sean O'Keeffe and brought together the work of a number of teachers at Katoomba High School and Mt Vic Public school. Megan Holz at Katoomba High choreographed some of the work as well as teachers Michelle Paulley and Courtney Brown.

An extraordinarily ambitious project the film features over 120 students from both schools and has an original soundtrack and song composed by KHS students Tegan Krempl and Rylee O'Keeffe. The students featured represent from a broad and diverse cross section, from mainstream to support, as well as Indigenous dance and performance.

Filmed in the spectacular landscape of the blue mountains.

Punarjanman had a short cinema release of two weeks (longer than the Bobs Burgers Movie!) . This may well be the first cinema release of a film produced by a High School.