The Australian presence at the Berlin International Film Festival has been bolstered with the selection of the shorts Elders, Grevillea and The Flame in the Generation program and Girl and Body in
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Four shorts supported by NITV and Film Victoria - 'What If', 'Unceded', 'Young Mob Questioning Treaty', and 'Treaty Now?' - will screen on NITV this weekend as part of the channel's NAIDOC Week line-up.
The writer-director, who started out as a playwright with 'Belonging' and 'How Blak R U?' in 2002, is among the screen industry’s fast-rising Indigenous storytellers.
"If we can't tell our stories in the way that we want to tell them, as musicians, actors, writers and dancers, then we aren't really telling the story of our country."
In curating the program for the inaugural BIRRARANGGA Film Festival, Tony Briggs was spoiled for choice.
The inaugural BIRRARANGGA Film Festival, a celebration of Indigenous filmmakers from around the world, will be staged at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from April 26 – 29.
Filming has started in Melbourne on The Warriors, a new eight-part Indigenous comedy drama for the ABC.