Silver Screen is a curated program of iconic and important Australian films screening every month in the comfortable theatre at 6 Washington Street in South Hobart. With support from the City of Hobart, Wide Angle Tasmania presents these films for free to those aged 50 and over.

It’s a great opportunity for audiences to access Australian film, meet other film lovers and hear from the actors, directors and producers at a post film Q&A. 

On June 27 we will be screening The First Fagin:

When Charles Dickens created the character of Fagin in his novel, Oliver Twist, he gave birth to one of the most infamous rogues in English literature. Few people know that Dickens' portrait of Fagin drew inspiration from the life of the Jewish receiver and fencer of stolen goods, Ikey Solomon. Much has been written about Ikey's exploits: his amazing and daring prison escapes have captured people's imaginations through the generations.

THE FIRST FAGIN recreates Ikey's journey from London's dens of vice, Newgate jail, and the notorious prison "hulks" on the Thames to a daring escape to the new world of America. Ikey then tempted fate by sailing to Tasmania in search of his wife who had been transported as a convict. In Tasmania, Ikey began a long legal battle to defy the authorities of one of Australia's most severe convict settlements.

Stay for a Q&A with actor Ryk Goddard after the film.

Check out the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eie9MusGrUY

Year: 2012

Classification: PG

Runtime: 87 min

Directed By: Helen Gaynor, Alan Rosenthal

Produced By: Veronica Fury, Alan Rosenthal, Stephen Thomas

Cast includes: Ryk Goddard, Carrie McLean

Silver Screen is a curated program of iconic and important Australian films screening every month in the comfortable theatre at 6 Washington Street in South Hobart. With support from the City of Hobart, Wide Angle Tasmania presents these films for free to those aged 50 and over.

On July 25 Silver Screen will feature Charlie’s Country:

Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie’s Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts.

Gulpilil appears in every scene in a film that starts on a light note when Charlie helps police capture two drug dealers.

But the government’s Northern Territory intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don’t generally make much sense, and Charlie’s kin seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it.

So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.  Source: https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/charlies-country#ixzz5J7UqWgF9

Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: David Gulpilil
Writers: David Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer
Stars: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford

Best Film - 2015 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Sydney
Best Director - 2015 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Sydney

Check out the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly8_7Su4m4c

Year: 2013
Classification: R18+ - Restricted
Runtime: 1 hour 48 mins