Seeking cash and a clone that got away

I Am Evangeline is an Australian science-fiction feature project about a runaway clone desperately looking for a way to become human. The four-week shoot is due to begin in Melbourne in June, and the filmmakers are looking for additional support to meet some of their costs. It's seeking crowd-funding through Pozible, with a target of $20,000 and a month to go. Writer-director Christine Rogers, in her Pozible pitch, asks, ''What does it mean to be unique? Is your genetic heritage what makes you? Can ties of love be stronger than blood?'' She suggests that ''an imagined world of human cloning is the perfect context in which to explore these universal questions.'' iamevangeline.com

Eleven plus

Resourceful Melbourne filmmaker Genevieve Bailey will launch the DVD of her documentary feature I Am Eleven, after a season at Cinema Nova. Bailey wanted to make a film with an optimistic quality and she made her documentary with more than a score of children from 15 countries. She chose to focus on this age group for a number of reasons, one of which was because it marked the time she felt she had been happiest. She found a range of children who had reflections and experiences that were remarkably different, yet with beguiling elements in common. To mark the launch, there will be an In Conversation session at Readings, Carlton, on Wednesday, May 1, at 6.30 pm. The filmmaker and a couple of her 23 subjects - now a few years older - will take part.

I Am Evangeline. Credit:Jason Lau

Road movie

The Jewish International Film Festival is expanding its screenings beyond the festival proper. The first Festival All Year Round event of 2013 takes place on Monday when Israeli filmmaker Nitzan Gilady's Family Time will screen at the Classic Cinema, Elsternwick. The 7pm screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Gilady's previous documentary feature, Jerusalem is Proud to Present, about the fate of a gay pride march in Jerusalem, won the audience choice award at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. In his new documentary, Gilady (pictured) focuses on his own family holiday of a lifetime, a road trip to the Grand Canyon - seven days, six nights, three sons, two parents, one van and a host of unresolved issues.

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