Film and Pizza Night - “Surviving Mumbai”

Hosted by: AIIA WA Branch

The event will start on: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 6:00 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 8:00 PM

At St Catherine’s College

2 Park Road , Nedlands Western Australia

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Surviving Mumbai was nominated for two Emmys and three AFIs. It looks at the terrorist attacks which took place on 26 - 27 November 2008, when highly trained gunmen - controlled via satellite phone calls from Pakistan - rampaged through the city leaving a trail of dead behind them.

Told entirely from the perspective of the survivors, this is a revealing story of courage and desperate action. The film contains remarkable and searingly honest interviews with people held hostage by the Mumbai gunmen, including those who witnessed them shooting other hostages, and exclusive CCTV and audio-intercepts revealing how terror chiefs in Pakistan orchestrated their every action.

About the Speaker:

Writer and director Victoria Midwinter Pitt studied law and international politics before joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary unit in Sydney. Victoria has also had the privilege to work on some of the leading factual programmes in Australian and British TV – Newsnight at the BBC, Four Corners and Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope at the ABC and Jenny Brockie’s Insight at SBS.  

Victoria has written and directed an armful of major political and social history documentaries including Frontier, The Top Floor, The Track, Rampant: How a City Stopped a Plague and Surviving Mumbai. Her work has screened at Cannes and the UN, and won Australia’s premier awards – Walkely and AFIs. Victoria's most recent film Leaky Boat (slated for broadcast on the ABC later in 2011) tells the story of how Australia responded to the arrival of the refugee boats in 2001.