Qwaruba- Pamela Croft's aboriginal design

http://www.qwaruba.com/pamela.html

If you follow this link you can read about how Pamela's artwork is giving back to Aboriginal communities. In 2006 Qwaruba, which manufactures footwear, incorporated oner of her designs to be used on slippers. These slippers which I believe are currently sold out were available through REI.

Just before the end of 2007 Pamela was informed by Qwaruba that they wanted to use another design for a 2nd edition which should be available later in 2008. The first edition sold a reported 35,000.

Profits from the sale of the slippers will once again go to Aboriginal communities. When the newest edition or more info becomes available we will update here.

Thanks,

Matt Ruggles
7th Wave Pictures
www.backtobrisbane.com

Pamela visits Atlanta Dec 2007

Pamela Croft Warcon and her husband Mark Warcon came to town and stayed with Shannon and myself prior to Christmas. They were coming to the States to visit Pamela's son David and her newest grandchild. It was great to spend some time with them and take them out to restaurants.

Prior to them heading off to Seattle I seized the opportunity to interview Pamela to fill in some gaps. Mark also sat down to talk about Pamela and Edie's relationship. So with these interviews done I think we have all that we need to finish up the Back to Brisbane documentary.

I hope to see Pamela and Mark at the airport for lunch tomorrow morning before they head back to Australia.

Make a tax deductible donation to "Back to Brisbane"

The new website now has a donation page. As the movie was awarded a fiscal sponsorship you can now make a tax deductibe donation to have a tax write off and to help our independent documentary.

Please visit www.backtobrisbane.com for more information on how you can help. Email if you have any questions on how it works.

Your donation makes you eligible to have your name(s) in the closing credits to the film.

Thanks for your interest and support!

Matt Ruggles

"Back to Brisbane" documentary near completion

I haven't been on here in over a year now. So here are some Back to Brisbane documentary updates!

The "Back to Brisbane" website just got a facelift and we are quite happy with it. It will be easy to update which is a big plus.

The latest is that this documentary has taken much longer than I anticipated, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. We submitted a rough cut of "Back to Brisbane" to Sundance. With nearly 1000 feature length documentaries, only 19 documentaries were selected for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival(according to my info). We were not one of those selected. In all honesty I don't think it was really ready yet. If anything, it helped push us in the right direction.

It is hard to believe that it is December of 2007 already. In less than 3 weeks Pamela Croft and her husband will be coming to town to visit for a couple of days. Outside of seeing the trailer, Pamela has not seen much else so I am both excited and nervous about her seeing what we have. It should be near completion for her visit.

I need to add a link to the movie website for this blog. So look for that to happen in the next couple of months.

Matt Ruggles
7th Wave Pictures
"Back to Brisbane"
Producer/Director
www.backtobrisbane.com

interview with Pamela on the Qwaruba website

This terrific interview on the Qwaruba website deals with Pamela as an artist, an educator, and "bothways" philosophy. Pamela discusses her life as a person from the stolen generation and goes in depth the meaning of her artwork.

Pamela sells Aboriginal design to REI

Pamela sold one of her artistic designs to REI. Proceeds from the sale of these slippers goes toward Aboriginal communities. I stopped by REI the other day to check them out. On one of the tags it has a picture of Pamela with some Aboriginal kids.

cinemATL article on documentary "Back to Brisbane"

Charles Judson of cinemATL did an article on the 7th Wave Pictures documentary a couple of months ago. What I thought would be a 30 minute interview stretched to over an hour.

cinemATL is a great online magazine that covers production in the southeast, with an emphasis on Atlanta.

Here is a hotlink to the article:

http://www.cinematl.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=26

"Back to Brisbane" fiscally sponsored

7th Wave Pictures' "Back to Brisbane" was recently awarded fiscal sponsorship from Image Film and Video. What does this mean? It means that you can make a tax deductible contribution to "Back to Brisbane." This really enables filmmakers to gain access to some funding and contributions that might otherwise be difficult. It will also, hopefully, help us secure funding through grants. With the end of the tax year coming up, wouldn't you like to have another write-off and also show support for the documentary.

I will post more info on this as soon as I get everything squared away.

Welcome to the "Back to Brisbane" blog!

How exciting to have my own blog! I feel like I am late to the dinner table but better late than never. It will allow me to stay in touch and for you to find out the latest on "Back to Brisbane." If you have any questions, comments or suggestions you will be able to comment here. You probably already knew that right!?

Press releases, screenings and any pertinent information regarding the 7th Wave Picture's "Back to Brisbane" will follow.

If you haven't seen the short documentary I made called "An Artist's Journey" you can view a quicktime on the website www.anartistsjourney.com This short was the first time I actually met Pamela. I was astonished both by her story and her openness of her past. This was the impetus behind doing a feature documentary on Pamela Croft.

The picture here is at the beach in Keppel Sands at about 5am. I was hoping for the sun to pop up over the horizon but the sun was covered by clouds. You can see that it is low tide and where the wet sand blends into the ocean.


Welcome to the Back to Brisbane blog!