In January and February 2011, I am really delighted to announce that there will be commemorative 10 year “Director´s Cut” screenings to premiere Next Year in Lerin in Australia, in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. These screenings offer a chance to meet me and to learn about the Macedonian ‘children’ exiled 50 years ago during the Greek civil war and still unable to reclaim their birthplaces.

It is organised by the Australian Macedonian Theatre of Sydney P.O. Box 227 Rockdale NSW 2216

Screenings:

28th January in Sydney Hoyts Entertainment Quarter, Cleveland Street, Moore Park
Tickets http://www.moshtix.com.au. Moshtix outlets and 1300 GET TIX (438 849)

2nd February in Melbourne Astor Theatre, cnr Chapel St. and Dandenong Rd, St Kilda Tickets http://www.moshtix.com.au. Moshtix outlets and 1300 GET TIX (438 849)

3rd February in Adelaide at the Palace Cinama Nova, off Rundle St.
Tickets: www.palacenova.com and at the door.

4th February in Perth. Astor Theatre, Beaufort St. My Lawley
Tickets www.bocsticketing.com.au, bocs ticketing agents and at the Astor.

2010 Awards Site Festival de Cine de Granada – Comments of the winners:

NOT RECONCILED by JILL DANIELS – Special Mention

Not Reconciled is a film poem. Belchite, an old medieval town in Aragon in northern Spain, was fought over by left and right for three weeks at the height of the civil war. When the war ended it was memorialised by Franco to his victory in the war and left in ruins.
Nobody knows what to do with the ruins,least of all the people who live in the village a few meters away, whose children use the ruins as their playground and young people as a place for sexual explorations. For most people in the new village, particularly the ones who remember the war, it is better to forget the past. But the ruins are a constant reminder.
Belchite is said to be haunted, and during our filming strange things happened. First there was an enormous fire. Then I encountered an old lady, Pilar Paris Minguez, wandering around the ruins of her old house talking to tourists. When I tried to find her again she had gone.

Another time I heard ghostly music and sounds of singing.
Not Reconciled is for me, a call to uncover the mass graves and give names to the anonymous victims during and after the civil war. And it celebrates Spanish women’s moment of freedom and liberty in the early part of the last century.
Jill DanielsDirector/Producer

Next Year in Lerin has been updated 10 years after its first issue. It has much better sound and image quality and I have made changes to the narration. Check it out by ordering your new copy from the sales page of the website.

Not Reconciled is screening at the Portobello Film Festival on Saturday 11th September 2010 at 3.30pm at the Westbourne Studios 242 Acklam Road W10 5JJ. Buses 31, 28, 52, 23. Westbourne Park is the nearest Tube. Entry is free. Hope to see you there.