Queensland Academy for Creative Industries organised a school excursion to see The Burning Season at The Blue Room in Brisbane. Film teacher Prue Miles sent the following feedback.
"It was a great location to see your work in and we filled the 60 seats perfectly. My observations of the students whilst watching the film were that they were really engaged with the content and they were actually very vocal in their response to certain characters / scenes. It is quite a different experience watching a film with a room full of adolescents. I think they really identify with Dorjee and his passion."
The school hosted a seminar on the making of The Burning Season for the film students at the school on Thursday 20th August.
Pictured below: Cathy Henkel and QACA students
Some feedback from a student:
"Today film maker and producer, Cathy Henkel, visited our school, the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, to speak with us about her new documentary, “The Burning Season”. Not only this, but she discussed with us the creative process behind film-making, and then how to distribute and sell our product, as well as the key ingredients essential to creating films within the film industry. Her new documentary, “The Burning Season”, was inspired after she viewed “An Inconvenient Truth”, a film about the impacts of climate change. This inspired her, and led her to her passion about fighting this issue, as she began to research, which is the starting point of creating a documentary.
"Personally, I felt that what she said was highly applicable in relation to what we are doing presently in film, which is the study of documentaries, and then creating one. Her passion was inspiring, and her advice incredibly helpful in that we can apply a lot of the themes into our productions. Not only this, but she told us about how to make a profile for ourselves."
Cathy Henkel was both intriguingly informative, as well as passionate, and much like the strong characters within her films."
Year 10 QACI student Bella Anderson
