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INTERVENTION 2 years on [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on February 29, 2016 1 video

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This impassioned documentary was rejected for broadcast by ABC TV as “biased” and lacking “balance”. John Howard introduced the Intervention legislation in July 2007. Two years later, an official United Nations rapporteur on human rights, Professor James Anaya, described the…

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FIVE SEASONS [from the CAAMA Collection]

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The Numurindi people have developed a culture where all things past and present, including the weather, are interrelated. This relationship extends to previous generations, together with the animal and plant kingdom. Five Seasons explores this intricate relationship through the eyes of the Numurindi…

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FINDING PLACE [from the CAAMA Collection]

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In traditional Aboriginal societies, the concept of manhood is very different from the way it is normally viewed in mainstream white society. Within the white community, boys are not legally considered men until they turn 18 years of age, and adult status is often determined by work and pay packets. In…

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EIGHT LADIES [from the CAAMA Collection]

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The eight ladies in this film come from Alyawarr Country in the Sandover River region in central Australia, about 250km north of Alice Springs. The filmmakers joined them on a five-day journey into the bush to hunt echidna and gather bush foods such as the bush potato. As they hunt and gather, and as…

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DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

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In the heart of central Australia, the town of Alice Springs has become something of a haven for Lesbians – a place where black and white women mix and mingle, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps. In a delightful parody of a famed TV naturalist, Destiny Attenborough…

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CROOK HAT & CAMPHOO [from the CAAMA Collection]

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Crook Hat and Camphoo are Alyawarr elders, from central Australia, who are concerned about the survival of traditional skills and culture. As Crook Hat says at the beginning of this outstanding film: “We are telling the old people’s way. It’s not just our way. We are trying to teach…

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CROOKHAT AND THE KULUNADA [from the CAAMA Collection]

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David Tranter continues his series of outstanding films which document the Dreaming stories and history of his Alyawarr heritage. As in Tranter’s other films - BOOMERANG TODAY, CROOKHAT AND CAMPHOO, KARLU KARLU and WILLABERTA JACK - the stories are told by Elders in the community. In this case…

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COOL DRINK AND CULTURE [from the CAAMA Collection]

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In the Aboriginal community of Mt Liebig, about 300km west of Alice Springs, a group of young women talk about the importance of bush food in their culture and its relationship to good health. In contrast, they associate sickness with “takeaway shop food” and describe Alice Springs as a “takeaway…

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CHEEKY DOG [from the CAAMA Collection]

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Dion Beasley is an Indigenous teenager who is deaf and has muscular dystrophy. He lives with his family in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. With help from his teachers and carers, including Joie Boulter, Dion is encouraged in his skill at drawing, particularly drawings expressing his fascination…

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CASE 442 [from the CAAMA Collection]

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“Dear Minister, I am writing to you in the hope that you will be able to help me take my mother back to her country …” - extract from a letter by Frank Byrne to the W.A. Minister for Indigenous Affairs, 22 April 2003. Frank Byrne spent most of his adult life on a personal crusade…

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BUSH TOYS [from the CAAMA Collection]

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This whimsical journey into original bush toy creations in the central desert of Australia puts a new slant on the craft of toy making. From the early pastoralist days of colonisation to current international art exhibitions as far afield as New York, we see the inventive adaptation of traditional European-style…

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BUNGALUNG [from the CAAMA Collection]

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Around a campfire, on a moonlit night, two Anmatjere Elders, Patsy and Jane Briscoe, sing and re-tell an epic Dreaming story told to them by their father and grandfather. It is a story of two young men who are forced into action when a clan of demon Cannibals devour their entire tribe and kidnap the…

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