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Babies | Movie Review
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 31/05/2011 - 05:10 pm
Category: Founder Blog
Babies….. a gentle encounter of the human kind
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, Babies simultaneously captures the rudimentary engagements between four babies and each of their mothers, siblings, landscapes and animals from birth to first steps. The babies are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in San Francisco, USA. This movie offers a gentle human encounter with a focus ...
Pain is Temporary, Legacies are Forever
by FamilyConnect.com.au
on 14/04/2011 - 12:25 pm
Category: Founder Blog
Welcome to the first blog entry for FamilyConnect. Writing this first entry has been on my to-do list for a few weeks now."What do I write for the very first entry?" I had been asking myself for a few weeks and no effective answer was forthcoming.
Last night, with the question in the back of my mind, I watched a TV documentary on Stuart O'Grady, the Australian road cyclist. I was watching it with my husband, a passionate road cyclist, who has had his freedoms curtailed by a broken foot. (How did he break his foot? He would tell you he did it bouldering - he fell over a rock getting the kids out of the car.)
The documentary followed O'Grady's win at the 2007 Paris-Roubaix, a ...
