Desert Island Flicks Castaway

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents

Desert Island Flicks:
Castaway with Kate Holden Unclassified 15+

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will feature Melbourne author Kate Holden in the popular Desert Island Flicks program this July.

Kate's stories have captured the beauty and the ugliness of humanity, close to and far from home. Her two bestselling books (In My Skin: A Memoir and The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days) capture the realities of heroin use, sex work and homelessness and the challenges of modern love.

Kate is also a popular columnist for The Age and has published essays, short stories and literary criticism. Having spent time in Rome, Shanghai and London, she now lives in Melbourne and teaches creative writing at RMIT.

So which films would this celebrated writer, columnist and world traveller take to her desert island? Castaway with Kate Holden will be hosted by film critic, writer and broadcaster, Thomas Caldwell.

Desert Island Flicks presents a who’s who of cinema, television, literature, sport, politics, art, science and culture, revealing their insights and personal stories into the films that moved them and why. Presented in ACMI’s intimate Studio 1 each month, the event presents key clips from the subject’s top 5 films, dispersed with chat led by an in-step host. This filmic snapshot results in fascinating revelations of life experiences, career influences and philosophical insights of the guest of the moment.

Join Kate on her celluloid journey when she features in Desert Island Flicks at ACMI on Thursday 21 July.
Date Thu 21 Jul, 7pm
Location ACMI, Studio 1
Admission Full $14 Concession $11 ACMI Member $10