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- History
- Documentary
Overview
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 2, 2008
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- Anandi Films,University of Technology Sydney
- Cast
- Julie Janson,Jan Thornley,Julie Gough,Jim Everett,Clive Atkinson,Jeni Thornley,Dur-e Dara,Rinki Bhattacharya,Arundhati Roy,Phyllis Pitchford
- Director
- Jeni Thornley
- Writer
- Jeni Thornley
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1499467