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Land Bilong Islanders

Year of completion
1990
Content type
Documentary
Format
Short
Genre
History
Duration
52 minutes
Production Status
Completed

Synopsis

Four hundred people live on Murray Island in the Torres Strait, on the northernmost fringes of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The Melanesian people who live there are at the centre of a legal battle that questions the very basis of European settlement of Australia.
Completion Year
1990
Genres
History
Format
Short
Production Status
Completed

Cast and Crew

Producer

Sharon Connolly

Director

Trevor Graham

Writer

Trevor Graham

Awards

1990 — Australian Film Institute

Screenings

1990 — Bilbao International Festival of Documentary & Short Films

1991 — Bilan du Film Ethnographique

1990 — Nyon Film Fest

1990 — Festival International Du Film D'Amiens

1985 — Festival International Du Film D'Amiens

1990 — Edinburgh International Film Festival

1990 — Australian Film Institute

1990 — DOK Leipzig

1990 — Melbourne International Film Festival

1990 — The Sydney Film Festival

Sales

Australian Sales

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Yarra Bank Films Pty. Ltd.

Production Company

Yarra Bank Films Pty. Ltd.

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