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The Screen Guide

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.

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Production Details

Production Completion
1992
Genre
History and national identity
Production Company
Snakewood Films

Selected Awards & Festivals

  • Basically Black Film Festival
    (1995)
  • Bilan du Film Ethnographique
    (1994)
  • Dreamspeakers
    (1994)
  • Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films
    (1994)
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
    (1993)
  • Singapore International Film Festival
    (1993)
  • Film Events Queensland Limited
    (1993)
  • Aboriginality - Berlin
    (1993)