Film Screening and Panel: Breaking News Breaking Down
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance in collaboration with Dart Centre Australasia and RMIT University present a free screening of "Breaking News Breaking Down." The film will be followed by a panel discussion on the media's role in community recovery following the bushfires, featuring:
Mike Walter, film producer and journalist
Brett McLeod, Network Nine senior journalist
Dr. Rob Gordon, trauma psychologist
"Breaking News Breaking Down" is a short documentary, directed by former TV reporter and 2005 Ochberg Fellow Mike Walter and featuring interviews with a range of journalists and experts from the Dart network.
The film grew out of a 2007 Dart Society project called Target: New Orleans that sent reporters to the Gulf Coast to lend a hand in post-Katrina reconstruction. The film interweaves this trip with reporters speaking candidly about the hardest stories they've covered and how, as Walter says, "breaking news can break you down."
When and Where
Drinks and nibbles at 6:15.
Film screening and panel from 6:45 to 9.
Kaleide Theatre
RMIT University
Street level, Building 8,
360 Swanston St,
Melbourne, Australia
RSVP by texting 0419131947 or emailing.