Interview
Zooming with Shalom Almond
By Markus Hamence
Markus Hamence is Zooming in The Jungle Room with South Australian Film-Maker Shalom Almond. With a brand new award-winning documentary our ‘Songs Inside’, Shalom and Markus chat it up, discussing the inspiration, the drive and what’s next…
A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs as part of a music program in an Australian prison. The women – who come to the program low in confidence and self-worth – are quickly thrown into a world of creativity and blossoming self- determination. But the process also opens up deep scars around trauma and addiction, threatening a once-in-a-lifetime prison performance alongside the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
