About this event
“A quietly political force of nature…an extraordinary South Australian life…remarkable and unintentionally radical.”
FARRIN FOSTER – In Review
Support our fearless advocate for a fair go in Mayo, Marisa Bell, with a story of the last Australian cowboy: 87-year-old queer great-grandmother, sheep-shearer and carriage driving legend Isla Roberts.
87-year-old Isla Roberts’ lived experience of rural Australia, caring for a mentally ill husband, and raising a family in severe economic hardship, makes for a fascinating story of a singular woman well before her time.
Isla now lives with her partner Susan in a simple cottage in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with two ponies and a dog. Her inadvertently political life as a queer octogenarian is a fresh examination and subversion of the LGBTQIA+ experience.
Following Isla over the course of a year, she will go back to her remote marital home for the first time in 60 years, attend her grandson David’s farm wedding, welcome new great-grandchildren and fight to keep carriage driving. One thing becomes very clear – she’ll do exactly what she wants, while she can. Poignant, funny and heart-warming, the story of Isla and her partner of 40 years Susan, is a window into the lives of older women in society today.
This event includes a Q&A with Director, Marion Pilowsky, and Producer, Georgia Humphreys.
Marisa’s Movie Fundraiser: Isla’s Way
About this event
“A quietly political force of nature…an extraordinary South Australian life…remarkable and unintentionally radical.”
FARRIN FOSTER – In Review
Support our fearless advocate for a fair go in Mayo, Marisa Bell, with a story of the last Australian cowboy: 87-year-old queer great-grandmother, sheep-shearer and carriage driving legend Isla Roberts.
87-year-old Isla Roberts’ lived experience of rural Australia, caring for a mentally ill husband, and raising a family in severe economic hardship, makes for a fascinating story of a singular woman well before her time.
Isla now lives with her partner Susan in a simple cottage in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with two ponies and a dog. Her inadvertently political life as a queer octogenarian is a fresh examination and subversion of the LGBTQIA+ experience.
Following Isla over the course of a year, she will go back to her remote marital home for the first time in 60 years, attend her grandson David’s farm wedding, welcome new great-grandchildren and fight to keep carriage driving. One thing becomes very clear – she’ll do exactly what she wants, while she can. Poignant, funny and heart-warming, the story of Isla and her partner of 40 years Susan, is a window into the lives of older women in society today.
This event includes a Q&A with Director, Marion Pilowsky, and Producer, Georgia Humphreys.