# Event Details

- **Event Name**: SCWC Film Club: Wag the Dog
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: For our first Film Club of 2026, we will be screening the clever and biting political satire Wag the Dog (1997), dir. Barry Levinson.Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor (Robert De Niro) and a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.--Film Club runs at 7.30pm on the first Saturday of each month at Coledale Community Hall. Regularly hosted by local film expert Graham Thorburn and open to anybody interested in seeing, thinking, and having fun talking about films; each Film Club session will start with some background information about the film – the times and context of its making, the people who made it, and something notable about the content or techniques of the film – perhaps even a bit of gossip. After the film screening, there will be a chance to discuss the film.Attendance is $7 for SCWC & Screen Illawarra Members, and $10 for general admission. Entry fee includes tea & coffee.Film Club is a community event. We encourage people to get involved by coming early to help us set up, or staying to helping pack chairs away.--Graham Thorburn has had a very long career in film and television, as an actor, producer, writer and academic, but principally as a director. He mostly worked as a director for short-run TV drama (over 70 prime time hours), but he also produced and directed Countdown and created, produced and directed BeatBox. Graham was the third President of the Australian Screen Directors Association (now the Australian Directors Guild) and served in various other executive positions for ten years. He was Head of Directing, then Head of Teaching at AFTRS for 11 years. Before that he wrote and delivered course work in acting, writing and directing for the screen at UTS, NIDA and AFTRS, and has chaired international undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum and teaching assessment panels.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wollongong/scwc-film-club-wag-the-dog/80001170310402
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, dog, theatre, performances, workshops, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Wollongong
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Coledale Community Hall
- **lat**: -34.2918205
- **long**: 150.9448242
- **full address**: Coledale Community Hall, 745 Lawrence Hargrave Dr, Coledale NSW 2515, Australia, Wollongong

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: Event Photo 1
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/live698280c210f96.jpeg

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is SCWC Film Club: Wag the Dog being held?
  - **A:** SCWC Film Club: Wag the Dog takes place on Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Coledale Community Hall, 745 Lawrence Hargrave Dr, Coledale NSW 2515, Australia, Wollongong.
- **Q**: Who is organizing SCWC Film Club: Wag the Dog?
  - **A:** SCWC Film Club: Wag the Dog is organized by South Coast Writers Centre.

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