16th Annual - Arakwal NAIDOC Film Screening
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This year’s Indigenous Spotlight programme of Flickerfest favourites is curated from the recent Flickerfest Academy® qualifying Australian competition and will take you on a special journey with some incredibly strong and powerful stories, who’s compelling voices will inspire, move and delight. The filmmakers and film creatives featuring in the 16thArakwal NAIDOC week screening are some of the leading lights in indigenous film today, blazing brightly on Australian screens and stage.
The programme features 9 multi award winning short films with highlights including the timely and insightful ‘Bangay Lore’, awarded Special Mention Of The Jury at Flickerfest 2023, shot in Brunswick Heads and Byron Bay by award-winning local First Nations Filmmaker Jahvis Loveday, the Tjanpi Desert Weavers delightful animations ‘Kukaputju (The Hunter)’ a story told in the language of Pitjantjatjara, as an Aṉangu elder gives a beautifully expressive account of a day hunting in the bush and ‘Tangki (Donkey)’ where three Anangu women of different generations recount how donkeys came to be well loved in their desert communities of the APY Lands before modern things like cars.
Further highlights include ‘Bunker: The Last Fleet' a futuristic First Nations sci-fi set in 2057 written, co produced and starring acclaimed actor Natasha Waganeen (Rabbit Proof Fence, Limbo) and ‘Katele (Mudskipper)’ a stunning Torres Strait Island film about a women longing for her Island home, winner of Best Australian Short Film at Flickerfest 2023 by acclaimed First Nations filmmakers John Harvey and Gillian Moody, starring Bangarra talents Elma Kris, alongside Waangenga Blanco, who lives in Byron Bay. A local Arakwal Traditional Custodian will welcome us all to their Country on the night.
Come along & enjoy these unique stories from incredible First Nations filmmakers championing Aboriginal voices through this year's NAIDOC theme; ‘For Our Elders’ & support the celebration of Aboriginal culture during NAIDOC Week.
A fundraiser for the Arakwal Corporation & supported by the Indigenous Coordination Centre & The Byron Theatre.
Programme details & info: Arakwal NAIDOC Week Indigenous Spotlight Shorts 2023
5.30 pm - Venue doors and bar open
6.10 pm - Theatre doors open
6.30 pm - Screening begins
9.00 pm - Screening ends
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