the screening

Beyond Empathy brings you this special screening of Protection on Wednesday 13th June at 6:30 pm at Gala Cinemas Warrawong, NSW.

This film will commence at 6:30pm sharp

This screening is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker (max. 30 mins). Stick around after the credits roll to ask all your burning questions

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Made collaboratively with children from public housing areas in the Illawarra. Protection uses a unique blend of film and animation to tell stories about childhood. It is inspired by the lives and experiences of the film’s adventurous and often hilarious young cast.

There’s a re-telling of Goldilocks – featuring a display home and a big, bad real estate agent. There’s witches, parties and billy cart derbies, and a lovely wedding to an imaginary prince. And there are also stories of bullying and racism, death and grief and facing up to your fears and mistakes.

These are stories told by kids from their perspective making Protection a celebration of childhood and a tribute to the resilience of children.

The company behind this project is Beyond Empathy – a not-for-profit organisation with the catch cry: “We love art and we hate disadvantage!”

In this Edition of Protection you will see the following stories:

In which three goldilocks(s) discover a play house
In which the boys band together to prevent their mate from being evicted
In which Tjay gets a pet fish
In which Michayla realises that people buy their own houses
In which Lilly races in the billy cart derby
In which frenemies Georgia and Melodie unite to defeat the spelling bee cheat.
In which Cooper is left behind
In which Victoria encounters a witch
In which Bella gets glasses and sits next to the new boy
In which Laticia has two birthdays
In which Chloe swims
In which Lizzie climbs a dinosaur tree
In which Amarli meets Black Santa
In which Elwyn imagines getting rid of his brother’s new girlfriend
In which Sharif causes an accident
In which Dan’s Pop Dies
and
In which Kiera joins a dance school