Duo Art Productions

Duo Art Productions

Producer of feature films and documentaries, Duo Art takes projects from conception through to the global marketplace. Currently in post production on Wolf Creek 2.. Key projects in development are a feature on the Australian WW1 General sir John Monash and his crucial role in ending the war, and a romantic ghost story. Duo Art Entertainment is the company's distribution arm for its home territory of Australasia.

FEATURES

Swerve

Pulsing with menace, writer-director Craig Lahiff's "Swerve" reorients the noir tradition, setting it within the South Australian outback.
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin (David Lyons) opts for a shortcut and happens across a fatal car accident. One of the drivers (Emma Booth) is shaken but not hurt, while the other lies dead - leaving a briefcase full of money without an owner. Despite his best intentions, Colin quickly finds himself drawn into a deadly game of survival, where no one is quite what they seem.
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Black And White

BLACK AND WHITE is a compelling period drama about one man's conviction that changed a nation.
An excitable young lawyer, David O'Sullivan (Robert Carlyle), finds he has drawn a 'bad lottery prize'; he must defend a young Aboriginal man Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra) who has been arrested for the murder of a nine year old girl in the remote desert town of Ceduna. O'Sullivan suspects that Max has been framed by police and he and his legal partner, Helen Devaney (Kerry Fox), embark on a 'David and Goliath' battle against the charismatic Roderic Chamberlain, the Crown prosecutor (Charles Dance).
Just when all seems lost, O'Sullivan finds a new ally in Rupert Murdoch (Ben Mendelsohn), then a young tabloid publisher trying to make a name for himself.
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Something blue...

Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre - Together, let us create a city where cruelty to animals is eliminated.

Kathmandu Animal Centre Read here

The Situation of Stray Dogs
in Kathmandu, Nepal 

What is the KAT Centre?

The Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre is a registered charitable animal welfare organization established in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Centre’s mission is to create within the Kathmandu Valley a rabies-free, non-breeding street dog population through Animal Birth Control (ABC), operating along the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the management of stray dog populations.

The city of Kathmandu, Nepal is home to more than 20,000 street dogs. They are commonly afflicted with injuries from collisions with cars, starvation, open sores with maggot infections, severe skin problems such as mange, and infectious ailments. Puppies especially struggle to survive in hostile environments.
Some stray dogs in Nepal carry rabies and other dangerous diseases which put people, particularly children who often play in the streets, at risk. Every year, around 200 people in Nepal die of rabies (most of whom are children), and 16,000 are treated for dog bites.

'Wherever the KAT team has targeted, there is significant and visible improvement in the standard of living.'  – Carolyn Rafferty of California

The Kathmandu city government used to poison more than 10,000 street dogs each year with strychnine, in an attempt to control the street dog population. This is a horrific form of death, throwing the dogs into violent seizures for up to nine hours before they die. The poison is scattered on the streets in lumps of meat, where it is a danger to children (who often play in the streets) and people's pets.
The dog carcasses are dumped in piles and left to decompose in the river beds. As many Kathmandu residents depend on the river for their drinking water, this creates a serious health hazard. Furthermore, this method is ineffective because the remaining dogs breed and the dog population returns to its original size within a year.
Through an agreement between the KAT Centre and the government of Kathmandu, the government no longer poisons stray dogs in the areas where KAT works.
Learn how the KAT Centre is improving the situation of Nepal's stray dogs
Read some of the incredible stories of stray dogs who have been saved by KAT!
Learn more about rabies in Kathmandu and throughout Nepal

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The Diggers Club

The Diggers Club
What's in a name? Diggers was born on July 1978 in an old tin shed! Our purpose was to rescue the wonderful old varieties of vegetables, such as Scarlet Runner Beans, that mainstream companies were dropping from their lists.
Due to the buying power of Coles and Woolworths, the only way to reach the keenest gardeners was to set up mail order distribution, bypassing retail shops. Over the past 30 years, a hardware collossus, such as Bunnings, have gained dominance and now control the garden market, just as Coles and Woolworths control the fruit and vegetable market. Buying food, rather than growing it at home, is a greater contributor to climate change than all the CO₂ from coal fired power stations. Multinational chemical companies, like Monsanto, can now introduce chemicals into our food supply (ie: G.M. seeds), which threatens our health and the existence of our best plant varieties.
So to preserve our best plants and garden traditions, and to help solve climate change, Digger's has to become a club for subversive gardeners. We are anti-G.M. and anti-industrial agriculture and pro-organic, as we campaign to increase the growing of food in our backyards.

click here read about The GM debate
Along with avoiding chemicals and seeking better taste and nutrition, one of the top five reasons people choose to buy organic products is because it is one of the only sure ways of avoiding the untested genetically modified (GM) organisms that are slowly and silently creeping into our food supply.
GM is strictly prohibited in the Australian Certified Organic Standard (ACOS).  The GM debate has raged for years and surveys consistently find that the majority of people are very uncomfortable about GM-derived ingredients in their food, yet governments turn a blind eye, fold to the all-powerful lobbyists of the multinational chemical corporations and allow the planting of GM crops.
State politicians come and go rapidly and their privileged position often allows actions that leave lasting and dangerous legacies – like the sanctioning and release of the cane toad – long after the members are forgotten in their local electorate.

 Triple b biodynamic beef
We aim to educate consumers to the benefits both to their health and most importantly to the environment of biological (both biodynamic and organic) farming.  We also hope to raise awareness of animal welfare, food miles and eating local seasonal food.  Since the end of World War II there have been dramatic and detrimental changes to agriculture.  Many people would have heard about terrorists purchasing bomb making fertiliser products from hardware stores, but don’t realise that synthetic fertilisers came about due to what was left over from the bomb making industries of WW1.  Many people don’t understand the enormous problems created by lot fed cattle – not only is it obscene that in a world with millions starving, more grain is grown to feed cattle than people !  Cattle are not biologically designed to eat grain, but worst of all is the cruelty of keeping animals in such conditions.  Feedlots can be seen from space – brown desert-like areas where animals are living in their own waste.   We would urge everyone to read David Suzuki’s latest book “The Legacy” and understand that we need to act locally to save our environment – we can all do something on a local basis and as he comments we must think of the next 7 generations to come, as native people have done throughout history.

Somerton Park

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Freya and her new little cousin Bentley!

Human Reseach Australia

Humane Research Australia
Animal research is a huge industry and it can sometimes be daunting to realise that those of us who oppose animal experiments are up against major pharmaceutical companies, university academics, research establishments, commercial companies and governments.
BUT…
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
We can all make a difference just by making simple changes in our daily lives.

Buy Cruelty-Free

When purchasing cosmetics and household products, choose those which have not been tested on animals. Not only will you be withdrawing your financial support from companies which continue to conduct cruel product testing, but you will also be supporting those ethical companies that are proving that it is unnecessary.
For a list of "Preferred Products", visit the Choose Cruelty Free website

Roads

As John Clellon Holmes put it, "Everywhere the Beat Generation seems occupied with the feverish production of answers—some of them frightening, some of them foolish—to a single question: how are we to live? How to live seems much more crucial than why."

The Palace Hotel

Ah, Broken Hill; our little secret.

Swerve nominated for Best Sound at this years Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts - 30 Jan

AACTA Nominees for Best Sound

Pete Smith, John Simpson, Martyn Zub, Des Kenneally

Official website: swervefeaturefilm

Wohoo!

What's with today?

Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it goes down. But every time that happens, what do you get? You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and you exhale, but every single time that you do that you're a little bit different then the one before. We're always changing. And its important to know that there are some changes you can't control and that there are others you can. Dan Dunne, Half Nelson, 2006.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468489/

Russell Brand: From Addiction To Recovery

Russell Brand: From Addiction To Recovery

Synopsis
Ten years ago Russell Brand was addicted to heroin, his career was unravelling and he was told he may only have six months to live. The story of how he battled to stay clean of drugs is at the heart of this eye opening and searingly honest, personal film in which Brand challenges how society deals with addicts and addiction.

The dogs...

Jazzy, Freya and Charli

Freya and aunty Charli

Hanging out after a big Christmas Day

Freya loves Christmas

Hanging with Grandma Liz

Sneaking some roast meat from (great) Grandma May

Seacliff Beach this morning for Sean xx

Freya's you tube

Love you babe

Master a Life

“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.” 

 

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky