Bristol Indymedia: Bristol Première Of Munda Nyuringu
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Mon 7 April 2008 // 20:30
(Mon 7th / 8.30pm / £3/2 but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds)
Bristol Première: Munda Nyuringu: "He's taken the land, he thinks it is his, he will not give it back" .
Bristol Indymedia is proud to present the Bristol Première of Munda Nyuringu, introduced by the co-director, Janine Roberts. The film is a documentary named by the Wongi people of Western Australia. It means "He's taken the land, he thinks it is his, he will not give it back". The film tells the Aboriginal story of the colonization of Australia as symbolised by the seizure of the gold fields of West Australia and by the use of their 'empty lands' for UK Atomic bomb tests in which some 400 Aborigines died. It also told for the first time how mixed blood children were seized and taken from their parents, which made headlines recently when the new Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised.
Upon its release it received an Australian Film Institute (Unanimous) Nomination and rave reviews. It employs to tell this story Aboriginal memories,
contemporary photographic records and diaries - and original works by Australia's finest award-winning cartoonist, Bruce Petty.
The film was co-directed and co-produced by Robert Bropho and Janine Roberts - Robert Bropho is an Aboriginal Elder and Spokesman for his people.
Janine is a Bristol based film maker and will be there to introduce the Bristol Première. She is also the author of two new books on the subject; 'Jack of Cape Grim' - about an Aboriginal group that resisted the settlement of Melbourne and 'Massacres to Mining: the colonization of Aboriginal Australia' DVD copies of the film will be available for purchase for £10 (£5 for the unwaged).
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org
Apology: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/feb/13/australia.apology
Bristol Première: Munda Nyuringu: "He's taken the land, he thinks it is his, he will not give it back" .
Bristol Indymedia is proud to present the Bristol Première of Munda Nyuringu, introduced by the co-director, Janine Roberts. The film is a documentary named by the Wongi people of Western Australia. It means "He's taken the land, he thinks it is his, he will not give it back". The film tells the Aboriginal story of the colonization of Australia as symbolised by the seizure of the gold fields of West Australia and by the use of their 'empty lands' for UK Atomic bomb tests in which some 400 Aborigines died. It also told for the first time how mixed blood children were seized and taken from their parents, which made headlines recently when the new Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised.
Upon its release it received an Australian Film Institute (Unanimous) Nomination and rave reviews. It employs to tell this story Aboriginal memories,
contemporary photographic records and diaries - and original works by Australia's finest award-winning cartoonist, Bruce Petty.
The film was co-directed and co-produced by Robert Bropho and Janine Roberts - Robert Bropho is an Aboriginal Elder and Spokesman for his people.
Janine is a Bristol based film maker and will be there to introduce the Bristol Première. She is also the author of two new books on the subject; 'Jack of Cape Grim' - about an Aboriginal group that resisted the settlement of Melbourne and 'Massacres to Mining: the colonization of Aboriginal Australia' DVD copies of the film will be available for purchase for £10 (£5 for the unwaged).
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org
Apology: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/feb/13/australia.apology