Festival makes no apologies
Rosalie Higson; 2/7/08
When filmmakers and producers Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale sat down together earlier this year to begin curating the ninth annual Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival, they wanted to offer a snapshot of Aboriginal life in a post-apology world. “We keep our ear to the ground about what films are being made, and a lot of the films out there were real-life stories,” Dale says at his Blackfella Films studios in a smart terrace house in Redfern, Sydney. They chose 14 films. “Not all are advocacy films, and they’re not saying how great we are and isn’t Aboriginal culture wonderful,” he says. “Certainly there are films talking about the strength of Aboriginal culture, but they’re not all purely dealing with that; they’re dealing with what it is to be very human, which I think is a shift, and I think we will see that more and more.”
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23954619-16947,00.html
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