How to be an artist activist

Artists have extraordinary power to change the way people think but it takes more than good intentions.
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Image: Ngapartji Ngapartji via Facebook

Filmmaker, producer and activist Alex Kelly has been trying to change the world for 17 years.

Her work includes Big hART’s award-winning Ngapartji Ngapartji, a community development and Indigenous language revitalisation project. She is currently impact producer on This Changes Everything, a book-to-documentary project based Naomi Klein’s landmark book on climate change and capitalism.

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Sarah Ward
About the Author
Sarah Ward is a freelance film critic, arts and culture writer, and film festival organiser. She is the Australia-based critic for Screen International, a film reviewer and writer for ArtsHub, the weekend editor and a senior writer for Concrete Playground, a writer for the Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz, and a contributor to SBS, SBS Movies and Flicks Australia. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Junkee, FilmInk, Birth.Movies.Death, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and the World Film Locations book series. She is also the editor of Trespass Magazine, a film and TV critic for ABC radio Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and has worked with the Brisbane International Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Follow her on Twitter: @swardplay