Rohan Spong and Mimi Stern-Wolfe
Manhattan, NY - Jan 2011.
By the Long Island Sound, NY - Nov 2011.
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Rohan Spong is an Australian born independent filmmaker passionate about telling unfamiliar stories across a variety of film mediums and genres. His work spans film, video, photography and animation. He has made numerous music videos, contributed projections to theatre, exhibited photographs and has made a handful of short films. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed feature documentaries.
Rohan studied film theory and practice at the University of Melbourne. Whilst living in Los Angeles in 2008, Rohan began to assemble his first feature length documentary T IS FOR TEACHER (2009), about the experiences of four transgendered school teachers in American schools. The film went on to be a screen at a number of prestigious international festivals, alongside Oscar contenders. It was named by two Australian reviewers as amongst the best films to screen in Australian cinemas in 2009.
Rohan's second feature length documentary, THE SONGS THEY SANG (2010) tells the forgotten story of the Vilna Ghetto theatre - where the imprisoned Lithuanian Jewish created evocative music in the face of death during the Holocaust. Rohan's film pieces together the story with interviews from the surviving theatre patrons and the families of those who wrote these startling works. The film is part musical, intercutting recollections of the Holocaust with a number of moving musical sequences. It has been requested for a number of prestigious film festivals to screen in 2011.
In early 2010, Rohan's career took an unexpected turn when he co-wrote and directed a graphic noval styled retelling of notorious Australian bushranger, Captain Moonlite. The quirky script of MOONLITE helped to secure some well known Australian actors including Barry Crocker, Tasma Walton, Val Jellay and Ian Roberts. It is anticipated to be finished in early 2012.
Rohan is currently completing his third feature length documentary ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVENING. It will be screened at film festivals, but also in a series of independent screenings on World AIDS Day (Dec 1) 2011. |