Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations

Who doesn’t love a good movie?

Driving up to north for the annual Byron Bay Triathlon last weekend, we stopped in Yamba to break the journey. To our delight the Yamba Cinema, housed in a quaint old-fashioned building was holding the Premier Screening of June Again, a new Australian movie. I highly recommend you see this delightful comedy co-produced by Emanuel alumnus Jamie Hilton (Class of 1997), starring Noni Hazelhurst, as June Wilton, Claudia Karvan as her daughter and Stephen Curry, her son. It is all about living and loving again. There are a number of movies recently released that deal beautifully with dementia – such an insidious disease – and June Again treats dementia with respect, dignity and humour. Well done to Jamie and the whole film crew for your beautiful film that, as one reviewer says “is a road trip that detours through the threads of the many lives it touches and dementia does touch a lot of lives and delivers a few shocker surprises. This film will make you laugh, cry and sigh, so it’s a winner covering the entertainment fundamentals.”  See the trailer.

Jamie Hilton

Jamie is the founding partner of his production company See Pictures.

Currently living in Perth with his wife and two young sons, Jamie has promised that when he comes to visit family in Sydney next time, he will hopefully also find time to come and talk to our students, giving insight into his journey to becoming a successful film producer, with notable feature films including Simon Baker’s Breath, Josh Lawson’s Little Death, as well as Long Story Short released earlier this year, and he was also Executive Producer on Julie Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty, selected in Official Competition Cannes 2011.

COVID vaccine

By now, there are members of our School community who have had the COVID vaccine, whilst some are on a waiting list and others are still exploring the pros and cons of the various vaccines currently available here in Sydney, along with other versions still to come. If you missed the recent Friends of Wolper Hospital Wellbeing session Vaccine Hesitancy, you might like to see the video recording of this webinar.

Private Art Gallery tour with a difference

We hope you will join us on the morning of 16 June 2021 for our Gesher private tour of Salon des Refusés 2021 (The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection) at the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill (The Rocks), with parking available onsite. This event is open to past and current parents, grandparents and alumni as well as friends. Bookings open soon.

If you have photos and/or news to share, please send to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Shabbat Shalom and have a great weekend.