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Aeroplane Dance

Year of completion
1994
Content type
Documentary
Format
Short
Genre
Drama, History
Duration
58 minutes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

On December 1, 1942 a US bomber called Little Eva was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. The plane hit a tropical storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in the Southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far north. The events which followed were recorded both in the journal of an American survivor and in a spectacular corroboree created by the Yanyuwa people who searched for Little Eva and her crew. The film brings together American and Yanyuwa tales of war, with drama, song and dance.
Completion Year
1994
Genres
Drama, History
Format
Short
Production Status
Completed

Cast and Crew

Executive Producer

Sharon Connolly

Director

Trevor Graham

Producer

Trevor Graham, Cristina Pozzan

Writer

Jan Wositzky

Director of Photography

Jenni Meaney

Cast

Tamblyn Lord, Simon Wilton, Sean Ladhams, Russell Fletcher

Awards

1995 — Chicago International Film Festival

1996 — RAI Ethnographic Film Festival

Screenings

1996 — Australian-India New Horizons

1997 — Beeld Voor Beeld Anthropological Film Festival

1997 — Bildungswerk Der Erzdiozese Koln

1995 — Chicago International Film Festival

1996 — Dublin Film Festival

1995 — Bilan du Film Ethnographique

1996 — RAI Ethnographic Film Festival

1996 — Gottingen International Ethnographic Film Festival

1997 — International Tourist Film Festival

1997 — Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival

Sales

Australian Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

International Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Production Company

Film Australia Limited
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