Frank Rijavec
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the Language of this country, the name of this river is Yarnda Nyirra~Na, 'Sun Mirror'. This is the story of the people who belong to the river, and the forces that took them away". With these words Roger Solomon begins the story of his people's connection to country, their suffering and their hope. Made with the Yindjibarndi, Ngarluma, Banyjima and Gurrama people of Roebourne, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Exile and The Kingdom...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Now a popular tourist destination north of Perth, the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia in Western Australia, holds harsh memories for former Aboriginal "inmates" who were placed there during the 1920s through to the 1960s. In recent decades the New Norcia Monastery has been packaged as one of the State's leading cultural tourist attractions. "A unique blend of Spanish architecture, European art treasures and pioneer history," "Monks, Music...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The film is a galvanising portrayal of large-scale environmental achievements being made by community groups, Aboriginal communities and rangers, conservation landholders, farmers and scientists. Together, they are restoring and healing land around the Porongurup and Stirling Ranges in south-western Australia. In this region some of Australia's most biologically diverse ecosystems were destroyed when land clearing for broad-acre agriculture was dramatically...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Million Acres A Year describes the epic history of post war agricultural development in Western Australia and the personal journeys of some country people - a rural vanguard which has come to acknowledge that current forms of agriculture are not sustainable, and that the limited solutions we are trying to implement are not enough. Their story unfolds in the remaining mallee/heath lands of WA's 'Wheatbelt', most of which were released to agriculture...
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