HATRED (1995)
How easy is it to hate? Beginning with the hatred that led to the filmmaker’s German-Jewish father fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, this film documents hatred in its various forms. From that intimate, inherited wound, it expands outward to ask how hatred operates in the modern world: in the lives of the poor and people of colour in New York, and in the ancient, unresolved collision of identity, religion and ideology between Israelis and Palestinians.
With post-screening panel featuring the film maker Mitzi Goldman, (CEO, Documentary Australia), Shankari Chandran (2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner), and Kelby Mason, Philosopher in residence, Primary Ethics.
Directed by Mitzi Goldman, Australia, 1995, 56 min, M 15+
Image: courtesy of Ronin Films
An event in collaboration with Primary Ethics.
WITH INTRODUCTION BY
Shankari Chandran
Shankari is an Australian Tamil writer, lawyer and leader in the creative community. She is the winner of the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. Her sixth novel, Daughters of the Red Earth (Ultimo Press, late 2026) focuses on religious extremism and its intersection with ethno-nationalism and transcendence. Shankari has previously led the pro bono legal teams for Allen & Overy (globally) and Ashurst (Australia). Shankari was an ethics teacher at her children’s school for several years.
Mitzi Goldman
Mitzi Goldman is a documentary filmmaker with over 35 years experience as a writer, editor, director, producer and executive producer. She was the co-head of documentary at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and since 2008 co-founded and is CEO of Documentary Australia. She is passionate about social justice, human rights and the power of storytelling to unite and inspire connection and change for a fairer and healthier world.
Credits include: Producer – KaChing! Pokie Nation; Night Parrot Stories; Memoirs of a Plague; End of the Rainbow. Director – Jez: A Letter for life; A Common Purpose; Chinese Take Away; Hatred; Parra Executive Producer – Incarceration Nation; Backtrack Boys; Undermined: Tales of the Kimberley; Leunig Fragments; Zach’s Ceremony; Constance on the Edge; I Am a Girl; Surgery Ship. Mitzi holds a PhD in Cultural Studies.
Kelby Mason
Kelby has been a trainer for Primary Ethics since 2011 and an ethics teacher since 2012, during which time he has trained thousands of our teachers and taught hundreds of students. He has a University Medal in philosophy and a Master of Public Health from the University of Sydney, he did his graduate work in philosophy at Rutgers, where he was a member of the Moral Psychology Research Group and a fellow at the Centre for Cultural Analysis. Kelby wrote Primary Ethics’ high school curriculum and currently provides philosophical advice and trains and provides classroom support for new teachers.
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