“2020 Program”
Director: Mayetta Clark
Starring: Bernard Tipiloura
Editor: Georgia Blake
Bernard Tipiloura has a dream: to bring back the once-famous canoe festival between Bathurst and Melville Islands. We follow Bernard as he sets about trying to build a canoe with a group of young men in Wurrumiyanga. Bernard reminisces about the past, and tells us his vision for the future.
Director/Producer: Sam Frederick
Featuring;
Yanyuwa Elders: Dinah Norman; Jemima Miller; Mavis Timothy; Graham Friday
Sea Rangers: Fiona Keighran; Shaun Evans; Steven Simon; Anthony Johnston; Lester Timothy; Damian Pracy; Stanley Allen; Sebastian Evans; Cody Miller; Levina Johnston; Joanne Miller
Dugong Researchers: Rachel Groom; Dr Chris Cleguer
A series from Barkly Regional Arts, showcasing local artists of the Barkly region.
GLADYS ANDERSON
This video we follow our Tennant Creek artist, Gladys Anderson, who paints the one event of the year she loves the most, the Tennant Creek Show.
RUTH DAWSON
This video we follow our landscape artist, Ruth Dawson. Ruth mainly paints 'Kunjarra' land, or also known as 'The Pebbles', which is her mothers land. Ruth tells us what Kunjarra means to her, and stories about the place!
LINDY BRODIE
This episode, Lindy talks about her ANZAC painting and her being inspired to give a different spin on her usual work.
Thank you to The Tennant Creek Memorial club for letting us film in their building.
Director/Writer: Bluebottle Films
Starring: Lloyd Beck
Once a mud crab fisherman, Lloyd Beck picks up his swag, hooks up his boat, and heads off to revisit the saltwater country that has both sustained and inspired him. Few places on Earth remain as healthy as the coasts of the Top End, however Lloyd’s journey reveals things aren’t as good as they used to be. Starting out in the Arafura Sea around Darwin before heading down to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Lloyd is reminded of the stunning wildness of the Gulf’s vast mangrove forests, but he also sees worrying signs of loss and damage. Lloyd also travels out to clearer waters where corals flourish, and to undeveloped islands where marine turtles nest.
Director/Writer: Huni Bolliger, Johanna Bell
Produced by: Johanna Bell, Tim Parish, Huni Bolliger
In My Own Skin tells the story of Aboriginal woman Elliana Lawford’s moving tale about shedding her cultural shame. In inky blue animation, we travel with Elliana through her childhood on Awabakal land, across tumultuous schoolyard politics and upward to Darwin, where Eliana is confronted by the very thing she’s been trying to outrun.
Director/Writer: Glenda Hambly
Produced by: Rogue Productions and Donydji Homelands
Homeland Story is an intimate portrait of Donydji, a small Indigenous community in North East Arnhem Land.
The film charts the Donydji community's transition from nomadic life to the digital age, from the 1960s to the present day. It is a moving portrait of a family's struggle to preserve their culture and remain on their Homeland despite the severe obstacles they face: sub-standard education, deplorable service delivery, lack of job opportunities for the youth, inadequate government policy, bureaucratic mismanagement and pressure from mining interests.
The film also tells a remarkable story of cross cultural co-operation over nearly fifty years. In 1974, Neville White, a genetic anthropologist student went to Donydji. In effect he has never left. He responded to the community’s request to help them map the clan lands, build a school, new homes and a workshop. These were funded by the Rotary Club of Melbourne and built by the young men of Donydji working with a group of Vietnam Veterans.
Director/Writer: Charmaine Ingram
Produced by: Sally Ingleton
Set in Wurrumiyanga, on the Tiwi Islands, this half hour documentary follows patrollers Janey Puautjimi and Camilla Timaepatua as they work through the night to ensure that the local kids are off the streets by 9pm and ready for school the next day. It’s a tough job as there are many distractions. Card games and mobile phones can keep kids up past their bedtime. When a 12-year old girl starts skipping class, Nilus Vigona from the school attendance strategy team – also known as the “yellow shirt mob” – enlists the help of the patrollers to locate the teenager. Set amidst the vibrant culture of Island life, with its Football carnivals and Catholic influences we witness firsthand how these remarkable local leaders sacrifice time with their own families to nurture the next generation of Tiwi leaders. A small community with a big heart, the people of Wurrumiyanga value family and safety. Tayamangajirri is a story of looking out for each other with people like Janey, Camilla and Nilus inspiring and engaging the community’s next generation of leaders.
Telling Story Project supports individuals and communities to widen their lens & re-author their stories to find strength, resilience and hope.
Stories can be telling, and we can learn from how we listen to others and remember our own.
Telling Story is a social and emotional wellbeing project incorporating digital storytelling with narrative therapy practices. The aim is to reclaim and document stories of survival and resilience and enable people to speak of future hopes and dreams. The inaugural Telling Story project was held in the remote community of Kalumburu in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.