IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS
Due for release 2019
“Everyone talks about making our children ready for school, but we have to make school ready for our children.” Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM, Arrernte Elder and Advisor
In tandem with the development of the film itself the team are working alongside Arrernte and Garrwa families and advisors as well as national impact partners to develop an impact distribution strategy. Walk with us - we would love you be part of the journey. SIGN UP HERE
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Developed with the assistance of Screen Australia and Goodpitch
Investors
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Synopsis
Ten-year-old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter, speaks two Indigenous languages, but is ‘failing’ in school. With little space in the western system for Dujuan’s language and culture his grandmother Carol is fighting a loving battle to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he become another statistic in juvenile detention or the welfare system. We walk with him as he grapples this educational schism and somewhere in-between finds a space to dream, imagine and hope for his future self.
With the guidance of Arrernte Elders our shared vision is that it will not reiterate the ignorance or the statistics of injustice, abuse and neglect we so often see when we turn on the news, but will creatively accentuate the strengths, the insights of Dujuan, his family, his community and through their story, First Nations families everywhere.
Credits
CULTURAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | Felicity Hayes |
DIRECTOR | Maya Newell in collaboration with Carol Turner, Megan Hoosan, James Mawson, Margaret Anderson, Jimmy Mawson, Colin Mawson and Dujuan Hoosan. |
PRODUCERS
| Sophie Hyde, Rachel Nanninaaq Edwardson Larissa Behrendt, Maya Newell
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ADVISORS
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Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM, Agnes Abbott, William Tilmouth, Amelia Turner, Jane Vadiveloo.
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ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
| Lisa Sherrard, Alex Kelly |
IMPACT PRODUCERS | Alex Kelly, Maya Newell, Lisa Sherrard, Bianca Cruse
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