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Island Home Country (2008)

Island Home Country (2008)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2008, August 2
Directors: Jeni Thornley
Countries: Australia
Production: Anandi Films, University of Technology Sydney
Cast: Arundhati Roy, Dur-e Dara, Jim Everett, Phyllis Pitchford, Julie Janson, Julie Gough, Clive Atkinson, Jan Thornley

Overview:

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Keywords:

australia tasmania social documentary social & cultural documentary women in film australian history super8 indigenous australians tasmanian