FILM TITLE

Focus Country - Australia. We Are Still Here

16+

19th March 2023 | 02:00 PM
Stein Auditorium

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Image-Description
Country
Australia, New Zealand
Genre

Drama, Anthology

Language
Arrernte, Turkish, Maori, Samoan, English
Duration
90 mins
Director

Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae
Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne

Festival And Awards

Toronto International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International
Film Festival

Synopsis

Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers interweave eight powerful tales to tell a sweeping story of hope and survival in the face of oppression and colonization, traversing 1000 years from the past to the present and future.

  • Cast

    Clarence Ryan, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbournek, Villa Lemanu, Lisa Flanagan,Meyne
    Wyatt, Leonie Whyman, Calvin Tuteao, Evander Brown, Sean Mununggurr, Willow Rupapera, Baz Te Hira, Deborah Brown, Serene Dubs Yunupingu, Elijah Jade Bowen, Oriini Kaipa

  • Producer

    Mia Henry-Teirney, Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers

  • Screenplay

    Samuel Nuggin Paynter, Tiraroa Reweti, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle
    MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis

  • Cinematography

    Eric Murray Lui, Raymond Edwards

  • Editing

    Roland Gallois

  • Sound
  • Music

    Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper