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Exile and the Kingdom

Year of completion: 1992
Content type: Documentary
Format: Feature
Genre: History
Duration: 111 minutes
Production Status: Completed

In the beginning Creation beings lifted the sky and soft world out of the sea. Then the earth became hard... British colonisation in 1863, slavery during the subsequent Pearling boom, the devastating mining booms of the 1960s...The story of the indomitable spirit of the Aboriginal people of Roebourne, north-western Australia... their law, their tribal voice, their continuing struggle against the new colonial forces of the 20th century.

Completion Year: 1992
Genres: History
Format: Feature
Production Status: Completed

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Awards

1994 — Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission – Best TV Documentary

1993 — United Nations Association of Australia – Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Special Award

1993 — Australian Film Institute – Best Achievement in Sound - Noeline Harrison, Lawrie Silverstrin and Kim Lord

1993 — Australian Film Institute – Best Documentary (shared) - Frank Rijavec

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1993 — Aboriginality - Berlin

1994 — Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films

1993 — Film Events Queensland Limited

1994 — Dreamspeakers

1994 — Bilan du Film Ethnographique

1995 — Basically Black Film Festival

1993 — Singapore International Film Festival

1993 — Vancouver International Film Festival

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National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

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Snakewood Films
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

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Snakewood Films

Exile and the Kingdom

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