Your chance to watch award winning documentary

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Springfield campus invites you to spend your lunchbreak watching the award winning short documentary Nigger Lovers on October 31, 2007.

Directed by Rhonda Hagan and written and produced by Daryl Sparkes and Stephen Hagan, Nigger Lovers details Mr Hagan's fight to have the work ‘Nigger' removed from a Toowoomba sports ground.

Mr Sparkes said the 30 minute documentary had been judged a finalist in the Inside Film (IF) Awards and in three categories of the Enhance TV Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) awards.

'We have also nominated it at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals, as well as film festivals in Germany, Spain, New Zealand and Hawaii,' Daryl said.

Created on a budget of $120,000, Nigger Lovers has received a positive response from most who have seen it.

'It's been overwhelming and the audience in general has had two reactions to the documentary.

'One is that they are in shock and awe by the powerful representation of the word and the other is that they impressed by the quality of the production.

Daryl and his team travelled across Australia's East Coast interviewing everyone from local Indigenous people to the Australian leader of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK).

'We were in Herberton, Sydney, Byron Bay, Woodford, Brisbane and Toowoomba shooting the documentary.

'During that time we talked to some interesting people, including Evonne Goolagong Cawley who recalled the time she was called a ‘nigger' on the tennis court.'

The documentary was shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival, where it was part of the biggest opening day in the history of the event.

Nigger Lovers will be shown in the USQ Auditorium on Springfield campus from 12.30pm to 1.30pm, free of charge and will include an introduction by Stephen Hagan.

Media Contact: Jo-Ann Sparrow, USQ Media, +61 7 3470 4119 or 0428 102 979