The Community Film Project is a 13-minute video artwork celebrating older residents of the Copper Coast as craft practitioners and contributors to the ongoing collective regional story.

The film, which will premiere as part of the SALA Festival in August 2025, takes viewers on a dreamlike journey through different spheres of regional life. This journey is depicted via footage, interviews, and even 3D scans which were collected over a series of research trips around the Copper Coast and the wider Yorke Peninsula region from 2024-2025.

The project team is comprised of Adelaide-based documentary maker and researcher Kim Munro; Melbourne-based visual artist Liang Luscombe; Wallaroo-based artist and video editor Orlando Mee; and Wallaroo-based production manager Gulsara Kaplun.

Over the course of a year, this team has built connections with local groups whose activities contribute to the preservation of culture and language in regional Australia. Groups such as the Northern Yorke Peninsula Quilters, the Yorke Peninsula Blacksmiths and Lost Skills Association, the Nharangga Aboriginal Progress Association, and many others generously shared their time, space, skills, knowledge and in some cases handcrafted objects, towards the creation of this film.

The work also features historically significant artifacts of regional life, as well as a short interview with Bard of Cornwall Lillian James.

The work will be exhibited at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery for the duration of the SALA Festival, with an artist talk to launch the exhibition at 5:30pm on Friday the 8th of August. To stay updated, follow the Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery on Facebook at facebook.com/PPRAG/

The Community Film Project is supported by Office for Ageing Well through the Positive Ageing Fellowship Grants program.