• Search Keywords

  • Year

  • Production Status

  • Genre

  • Co-production

  • SA Supported

  • First Nations Creative

  • Length

  • Technique

The Screen Guide

For centuries the men of Kontu, a small coastal village in New Ireland, have gone to sea in frail outrigger canoes: to call, trap and kill sharks by hand. Now after a hundred years of coloniziation, economic exploration and intense missionary activity, a few men still understand the magic rituals of shark calling. However it remains as their most tangible link with the tradtions of the past during a time of rapid social change.

Is this your listing? Request an update here.

Crew

Director
Dennis O'Rourke
Producer
Dennis O'Rourke

Production Details

Production Completion
1982

Selected Awards & Festivals