Georgia Robb has translated this year’s Sunshine Film Festival theme of “knights in Sunshine” phonetically, rather than literally.
Instead of focusing on knights in armour and towering castles, the six-year-old has created a short film about her night-time adventure at a schoolmate’s house in Sunshine.
Her mother, Jessica, said Georgia snuck around the knights’ theme and made it about night time instead, using her version of the theme to explore cultural diversity at Sunshine Heights Primary School, where she is a first grade student.
“There is something like 46 different nationalities at the school, so we went to Yuvika’s house and learnt a bit more about her family’s culture,” Jessica said.
“They wore their national dress and cooked us a meal and told us about their religion.”
Georgia said she wanted to create the film to learn about Yuvika’s culture.
“I liked doing the voice-over and having dinner with my friend, Yuvika, as part of the film,” the young filmmaker said. “They made my favourite Indian meal.”
All entries to this year’s film festival will be aired on Friday night at Village Cinemas, Sunshine.
Winners will be chosen from three categories – primary, secondary and open – and will share in $10,000 prize monies. For the first time, winners will also receive a 35-centimetre statuette of Sunshine’s Millennium Man.
Festival co-ordinator Steve Pereira said there will also be prizes for the best in-theme costume on opening night.
