Gulpilil.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After his terminal cancer diagnosis in 2017, the late Indigenous screen legend David Gulpilil sits down in front of the camera one last time to tell his story in his own words, taking us boldly on the journey that is his extraordinary life and career.
2) Ten canoes
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong. Narrated by veteran Aborigine actor David Gulpilil.
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980’s, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds. He divides his time between a traditional tribal lifestyle and his artistic work, which has included major film roles, collaboration with contemporary dance and music groups and teaching Aboriginal...
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Legendary Aboriginal actor and Australian icon David Gulpilil's life has been one of dueling lifestyles, with his jet-setting movie star life on a completely different plane from his life as an Aboriginal village elder, and director Darlene Johnson manages to capture intimate details from both lifestyles in her 2003 biographical documentary GULPILIL: ONE RED BLOOD. At the age of 17, Gulpilil made history as the first Aboriginal actor to appear on...
5) The Tracker
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Three mounted policemen are led by an Aboriginal Tracker as they hunt a fugitive across the Australian outback in 1922. Through massacre and murder the party falls into disarray, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls embark on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent to lead them home. Rabbit-Proof Fence captures their universally touching plight and...
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With no way to live a traditional lifestyle in his Aboriginal community, aging Charlie (David Gulpilil) struggles to make his own way in life. Winner of Un Certain Regard for Best Actor at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Winner of Best Actor at the **Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.** *"Australia offers few sights as sublime as that of David Gulpilil." - Peter Keough, **Boston Globe*** *"Using a combination of bleak realism,...
9) Goldstone
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation opens a web of crime, corruption, trampling of indigenous people's land rights, and human trafficking. Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
10) Storm Boy
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Kingley (Geoffrey Rush), a successful retired businessman and grandfather recounts to his grand-daughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Based on the beloved book, STORM BOY is a timeless story of an unusual and unconditional friendship. "*Themes of loss, grief and separation are pitched at just the right level to resonate with children and adults alike.*"- Richard Kuipers,...
11) Walkabout
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout", a tribal initiation into manhood.
12) The tracker
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the Fugitive. Frustrations spill over as the tension mounts....
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...