Description Bardi language oral history animation about police reprisals on the Dampier Peninsula following the spearing of two white pearlers at Cygnet Bay in May 1885.
The film, commissioned by NITV, was produced by Wankangurru / Adnyamathanha woman Lavene McKenzie and was filmed over forty-one consecutive days while the editing took over five weeks.
Ambitious in nature the fifteen minute short film traverses Lavene growing up on Umeewarra …
On the Black Chair is a video and web-based project which captures ten stories from community members both elders and young people. Community members were invited to sit in a 'black chair' that had been allocated for storytelling, and share a story of their choice. The …
The Real Faces Of Ballarat.
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The community of Yakanarra visit places of significance around the area and hear stories from Elder Stella Jimbidie including places of camping, where old people lived, a place where a massacre occured, a favourite local waterhole and a sacred story about brolgas. Told in …
ICTV Contributor Profiles Project: Laurie May
ICTV Contributor Profiles project features the work of outstanding Indigenous producers in remote Australia, celebrating their hard work and contribution to community television.
This episode stars Laurie May from Bush Bands …
Known as the Aboriginal Geronimo, Jandamarra held police at bay for years preventing pastoralists from occupying rich pastures of the Kimberley. Today he is regarded as a folk hero and stories abound of his superhuman abilities.
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